Bric Slade TC: Chapter 8
Summary: To be a great teacher, it is imperative that you be a great listener first. As the cliché goes, "they don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care". If you are more concerned about imparting eloquent speeches to all of your lowly subjects, you can bet your likely to have no idea what your students even need to improve in the first place, and that's what we're all doing, teaching to their needs. Once you have found out what your student needs it is always better to give constructed criticisms in the positive. DO this. DO that. REMEMBER this. Not DON'T do this, DON'T do that, FORGET this. When you give positive reminders on the tiniest of details, you have a lot more to work with because you are yourself improving on how to get your students to realize what they need to do AND it keeps your students working in that sweet spot. We all need to work with what we have and not expect our students to jump leaps and bounds to get to the targeted height of skill. By simple teaching, baby steps, we achieve greatness.
Key Terms: Talent Whisperers, Listen, Targeted information
Key Concepts: They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care/listen
You can tell them what NOT to do till the cows come home but they still wont know what TO do.
Connections: I need to make sure that when I am teaching I am listening to key points in a students performance, whatever it may be, that needs improvement. I need to focus my information and give it more pointedly and precisely. I cant afford to waste my time with flowery speaking.
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