How we all learn by teaching, and must prepare for changes – By Dena Falken
The learning by teaching method has been demonstrated in many studies. Students who spend time teaching what they have learned go on to show better understanding and retention than students who simply spend the same time re-studying. What remains unresolved, however, is exactly why teaching helps the teacher better understand and retain what they have learned.
TEACHING CAN BE EMOTIONAL AS ONE BONDS WITH STUDENTS
The art of teaching comes from both the brain and the heart. It is a journey that revolves around your ability to connect, inspire and enable your students and your colleagues. This also includes the one who will fight you every step of the way. One of the important things to understand about teaching is that people are emotional creatures, we have no idea what another persons journey is all about,…
YOU MIGHT BE TEACHING THE FUTURE HEAD OF A MAJOR CORPORATION
It is you who inspires our future innovators and leaders, although children are only a small percentage of the population, they are 100 percent the future. This idea shouldn’t scare you. It should inspire you. Every day you nurture the young minds that will one day transform the world we live in, you are their lifeline to success and their mentor for the learning journeys they will take beyond school. You teach them about possibilities and how they can tap their potential to achieve greatness, for themselves and the whole world and you are more than up to the task, to train them even on the day you feel like you’re not.
One of the most important things to understand about teaching is that change will indeed occur.
Changes will happen that we might not be able to even predict.
“We need to always look for more innovative ways to teach” says Dena Falken of Legal-Ease International.
If you have been a teacher for any length of time, you know how quickly the education landscape is changing. I know that working for Legal-Ease International has had a huge impact on me.
My personal experience of teaching Legal English, the language of the law, has made me a better teacher and a better person as well. One might not need to learn the law, but the Language of the Law. This is critical for every individual student and lawyer where English is not your first language. Visit us at www.legalenglish.com. Legal-Ease International, The World Leader in Legal English.
