When a yoga instructor decides to take the leap and develop a instructor coaching, there’s a elementary shift that should happen: we have now to begin pondering like an educator, fairly than an skilled.
And skilled is somebody who’s passionate, skilled, and educated about their chosen topic. An educator is somebody who can encourage others to a distinct degree of efficiency. Let’s take a look at how these are completely different.
If we strategy our instructor coaching like an skilled, we might make what I name, “The Nice Mistake.” The nice mistake is pondering that training is about what I inform my college students. If we predict this fashion, then we’re tempted to provide college students the contents of our heads. We predict that if we simply give them sufficient data, they are going to be educated. Though that is very well-intentioned, it typically results in a “hearth hose” strategy the place we saturate college students with data.
As an alternative, to suppose like an educator, we have now to alter our perspective. Fairly than pondering that training is about what I inform my college students, I modify the main target. I reframe the expertise and outline training as what my college students can DO.
By making training about what our college students can do because of the educational expertise, I modify the main target of the expertise from me (what I say or present) to the scholar (how the scholar can carry out otherwise). From this perspective, I’m now centered on the scholar’s measurable efficiency. I can set a transparent benchmark for what I need the scholar to have the ability to display or articulate on the finish the lesson.
This transformation could appear easy, however it is going to rework the educational expertise in profound methods:
- As an educator, I now have to set clear objectives for pupil efficiency,
- I take the main target off of me and put it on the scholar,
- I get clear about what “inputs” the scholar wants to realize the specified efficiency, which defuses the hazard of “firehosing” them with pointless data,
- I’ve a transparent thought of how I’ll assess the scholar’s success.
Earlier than you create your subsequent lesson plan, workshop, or instructor coaching, pause to suppose:
What do I need the scholar to have the ability to DO because of this studying expertise?
This easy inquiry will show you how to take the leap from skilled to educator, and help your college students to have a profitable studying expertise.
