Teaching our loved ones outside of school incorporates a set of approaches that we all know typically work. Most children learn how to ride bikes and drive excellently. Children teach their friends games very effectively, employees learn skills and procedures on the job—high standards are met on a regular basis.
How people teach outside school can be summarized using just three big ideas—the Three Principles of the Most Effective Teachers.
- Huge Engagement. The learners are engaged at three levels: cognitively, physically and emotionally.
- Huge Positive Strokes. The learners receive ample positive strokes throughout the process to provide the needed recognition for success and evidence of progress to sustain motivation.
- Huge Unrelenting Coaching Until the Standards Are Met. Though there will be breaks and pauses as needed, the teacher doesn’t quit until the standards are met.
If we use these three principles to guide our decisions as classroom teachers, we will be teaching in ways that are more like how parents teach their children or friends teach their peers.
Purchase Teaching For Excellence