School desks Photo by Jeffrey
Hamilton on Unsplash
67 Teaching is not dispensing
It is an exchange
For three days last week
I profoundly enjoyed the LIFT convention presented by
Mirasee. Danny Iny, with his wife
and his brother, touched us all very deeply. There were
stimulating guest presentations, but the most rewarding part of
the conference was mingling (online) with the collegial
participants.
I heard of a college
course on teaching aids in which the professor never used any
teaching aids. Today I attended a lecture by a person who dropped
out of a business training program because none of the teachers
had run a business. Financial coaches teach that before you teach
others to earn a million dollars, you have to earn a million
dollars. Those stories maintain that you can’t teach what you
don’t do.
The theme of the LIFT
program for course creators was surviving and thriving together.
The curriculum challenged me to keep up and I don’t remember many
specific topics. What I remember is what I was really
studying: how do you teach people to cooperate? You will
recognize that as the theme of this blog. It is fair to
say that I was not studying the subject matter, I was studying
the teacher. They taught me course creation by creating
their course.
Seeing the light has a
profound effect on me. I learned that I do not own this blog.
You do. I work here, but the purpose is the change
you experience here. That is the direction I have always
wanted to travel. Nevertheless, this is a pivot moment for me, a
change in outlook on what I am doing.
Do you understand now the title of Friday’s
article 66 Teach me?
Being For Others Blog copyright © 2020 Kent Busse
Have you shared this with someone?
