Pet Peeves and Teaching

       Teaching is such a precious adventure. One can be a school teacher, or one can teach a specific skill to someone as a friend or a parent. One teaches others via employee training. Every time you teach you learn how to teach better. Those you teach help you become a better teacher because each person has a different way of absorbing the material and they teach you yet another way to impart the information. The trick is letting the give and take flow. Some people insist on being overbearing and do not let the student grasp the information in their own special way. Its such a crime when this happens. This can make the student resistant to the information because they are having the information forced upon them . 

that aha moment

a big part of my  day job is teaching a specific skill.. sometimes people get the hang of things right away and others need further training. sometimes at the beginning it seems as though some students will never catch on . after much experience i have learned that so long as a person is motivated and persistant  he or she will eventually  be successful. it is  most incredible to watch a student experience that "aha" moment when everything clicks .this is  what makes teaching so rewarding. that  "aha" moment and the fact that every person takes a different road toward achievement and the challenge of figuring out which route of learning will guide each  student most efficiently toward  achievement.