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Teaching, my lovely friends, is hard. If you fall apart, so does everyone whose eyes are trained upon you at that very moment. If you do it wrong, so does everyone else. If you can’t explain how to do it right, they never will. You have to know how to do it right, AND you have to know it so inside-and-outside, forwards-and-backwards, in-your-sleep-and-wide-awake, intuitively-intellectually-spiritually-physically, that no matter what corner they come at you from, you can help them understand.
Teaching is the final piece of learning. Do you really know it well enough to teach it?
And then. Do you have the authority, creativity, and empathy to communicate it effectively to your students? Can you make them understand why it is so important that they learn this while keeping hold, at the same time, of what their confused, eager, maybe-even-scared perspective might be?
I make mistakes, and my students display their tremendous generosity when they let me do that without throwing their hands up in the air and giving up. They see my mistakes as tests of their own willingness to face challenges. They put their trust in me that on balance, what I have to say will help them grasp what it is they want so much to master.
I am not a great teacher, yet. But sometimes, I am a good one. Sometimes, I say exactly the right thing at the right time and the right person hears it, and suddenly it works and I catch that person’s eye and we share the barest grin because jesus christ, that was intense, and it worked.
I am lucky. Teaching karate is unusual in that everyone who’s there wants to be. I have an advantage over those who are faced with classrooms where a quarter of the students care and the balance are indifferent-to-hostile. I have a better-than-average shot that my students will let me become a good teacher.
At the end of class, we bow to each other and say Arigato — thank you, in Japanese. Students bow to teacher and say it, and I bow to them and say it back.
I don’t know if they realize how deeply I mean it.
Teachers are so underappreciated in our society. That bit of snark has always bothered me. While I’m sure it applies to a very small few, most teachers are amazing at what they do and what they teach. Teaching isn’t easy in the least. You sound as though you enjoy teaching karate, which probably helps you be a great teacher!!
Comment by Stewie — December 17, 2009 @ 12:26 am
Great reading. Very inspiring. I am glad you have such a deep awareness of all the elements that are in play while teaching. I believe that this awareness makes you a happy teacher.
Comment by Mama — December 17, 2009 @ 9:12 am
There’s a saying from Benjamin Franklin that seems appropriate: “They that cannot be counselled cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.” A.M., it’s obvious to me that you are a very good teacher and it’s even more obvious how much you care. That makes all of the difference.
Comment by Dina — December 17, 2009 @ 10:46 am
I feel confident in the fact that I can disagree, while never having been taught by you, that you are not a great teacher. I have a little experience in the department of teaching martial arts and I can tell by everything you’ve written on the subject that you are almost certainly a GREAT teacher.
It would always amaze me when I would say just the right thing, move someone’s body a certain way, describe something, whatever, and I’d see the student have a breakthrough. It is a great feeling. And, you are right. You don’t REALLY know something until you teach it. I am so thankful for the teaching that I did because it solidified that information in my brain for life. Now I need to achieve that with my II Dan requirements…
Comment by Mama D — December 17, 2009 @ 4:45 pm
I agree that teaching is a sign that you truly know your subject. That’s what they say when medical students are learning a procedure: see one, do one, teach one. (Or at least that’s what they used to say on E.R.) I have no doubt that you’re a fabulous teacher.
Comment by Melissa — December 17, 2009 @ 6:03 pm