Sarah Boucher TC: Chapter 8 Summary

Sarah Boucher TC: Chapter 8 Summary
Chapter Summary:
Successful coaches and teachers can read what the student needs and give them the appropriate techniques to target the skills they need help with. With students who are more advanced the most successful of teachers will use a method similar to UCLA's basketball coach John Wooden. Wooden's laws of learning are: "explanation, demonstration, imitation, correction and repetition" (pg. 170). However, when teaching those who are new to something, especially young children different methods can be used. This is because it is more important to spark ignition than to achieve results in the early stages of skill building. 
Key Points:
Praise is not what builds a student's skill.
Targeting behaviors and showing student's how to do something builds skill.
It is ok to use praise and rewards to build young children's passion for something. It is important to make the activity fun in order to ignite the passion that will eventually lead them to deeper levels of skill gaining.
Key Terms:
Talent whisperers
Making Connections: I liked Coyle's commentary on "amateur" teachers. I think as a teacher it will be very important for me to know my audience. I hope to have a range of student's that are at different stages in their singing - some just starting out and others who are already very passionate and dedicated. I hope to be the type of teacher that makes it enjoyable for those kids that have just begun singing, and ignite desire in them to continue. I also want to be able to really help more advanced student's progress by using Wooden's laws of learning.