So interesting to learn about the different approaches to teaching and learning. Finding the sweet spot is probably one of the points of contention?
Also, Chris, thank you for spreading awareness of the need for more bone marrow and stem cell donors. Hopefully many more lives will be saved with the influx of new donors.
I love this! I homeschooled my boys for 7.5 yrs (took the oldest out midway thru 1st grade), & this is what I learned about education and working with kids too. FACILITATING them is so much more powerful, impactful, effective, and pleasant than trying to pour some pre-determined knowledge & skills into them.
Ah yes, the facilitator way. This is validating my theory and reassuring that somehow I am doing a good job. Though everyday is unknown, it’s nice to know that just providing space for unfolding is good enough and could even be fruitful. Love the working on myself as facilitator for the kids’ learning!
Interesting concepts. In my life, curiosity has been the driving force behind my most successful learning experiences. The standard teaching model left me so bored and incurious that I could hardly pay any attention and as a result learned very little. Being a facilitator seems to be also playing the roll of ensuring as many students as possible are kept as curious as possible. Much more likely to succeed than in a standard teaching model. Where was this option when I was in school?? Born too late.
Lovely piece Chris! What you wrote about described exactly my own journey from instructor to therapist. I love the idea of instructors moving in this direction towards facilitation. Leading by listening, working to helping young people connect to their own entelechy throughattunement and a strengths-based approach has made all the difference, for those I get to work with and for myself personally. Great work!
So much wisdom and resonance, Chris. I particularly love the last anecdote on co-regulation. Thank you for sharing!
Spot on.
Also, best line: "facilitators have a hell of a lot more fun."
So interesting to learn about the different approaches to teaching and learning. Finding the sweet spot is probably one of the points of contention?
Also, Chris, thank you for spreading awareness of the need for more bone marrow and stem cell donors. Hopefully many more lives will be saved with the influx of new donors.
I love this! I homeschooled my boys for 7.5 yrs (took the oldest out midway thru 1st grade), & this is what I learned about education and working with kids too. FACILITATING them is so much more powerful, impactful, effective, and pleasant than trying to pour some pre-determined knowledge & skills into them.
Ah yes, the facilitator way. This is validating my theory and reassuring that somehow I am doing a good job. Though everyday is unknown, it’s nice to know that just providing space for unfolding is good enough and could even be fruitful. Love the working on myself as facilitator for the kids’ learning!
Interesting concepts. In my life, curiosity has been the driving force behind my most successful learning experiences. The standard teaching model left me so bored and incurious that I could hardly pay any attention and as a result learned very little. Being a facilitator seems to be also playing the roll of ensuring as many students as possible are kept as curious as possible. Much more likely to succeed than in a standard teaching model. Where was this option when I was in school?? Born too late.
Lovely piece Chris! What you wrote about described exactly my own journey from instructor to therapist. I love the idea of instructors moving in this direction towards facilitation. Leading by listening, working to helping young people connect to their own entelechy throughattunement and a strengths-based approach has made all the difference, for those I get to work with and for myself personally. Great work!