My Favorite Teaching Technique: Rate your work / yourself / your effort on a scale from 1 to 10. 1 is, of course, your stinky, smelly worst --and 10 is the best possible effort you can imagine. When Im thinking clearly, I often use this to become aware of my breathing, my open heart, my level of being present, my effort as a teacher, a leader, a student, a follower. I catch myself measuring my ability to listen when someone else is speaking, my relaxation, and the outcome of a project Im involved in. In the group I oversee, I have sought to have a 10 level of engagement, the best I can imagine without actually being physically present in each members school. Video chat, cell phone availability, several thousand written guidelines, reports, reminders, and the curation of teaching/leading relevant content ---consistently, nearly 365 days a year. What Im hoping to do is cultivate a network of other highly competent martial arts teachers who recognize what a 10 level team effort would look like --and what it would do for each individuals career, their sense of mission, their schools, and their communities. The real easy thing about school management is the simple repetition of tasks; the hard part is to engage ones community at a level 10 --and to understand that everything that builds value in ones school radiates out from how the students take what is practiced on the mat --and put it to work in their lives, in the community, to the benefit of others. Where, I ask, do we stand on that idea, on a scale from 1 to 10?
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:32:57 +0000
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