Well, to pass on information of course… but is it that simple?  We pass our driving test and then we REALLY learn to drive…. And in so doing we can forget what it was like to learn – BEFORE we knew nothing - before we could park without thinking (and maybe turning the radio off to do so) or before we could simultaneously negotiate a roundabout while thinking about what to do for dinner.

One of my greatest pleasures is seeing my kinesiology students move on from the classroom and become wonderful Kinesiologists  -  some of them professionally, others for their own and their family's benefit.  Some of them also go on to teach kinesiology, which is wonderful.   Whatever it is, the "journey" never ends because, aside from regulatory CPD requirements (!) we are constantly learning from ourselves and others.

That act of “forgetting” what it was like to learn or before we had our kinesiology skills, can impede our ability to teach - we forget what we didnt know.  Of course we don’t want to patronise but also not overwhelm.  We need to gauge the different levels of ability in the room – ability to remember short term or long term, ability to listen (really listen), those who are visual, auditory, kinesthetic, ability to have the abilities we cannot teach – and project to them all

It is (temporarily) ego enhancing when students proclaim how much knowledge you have – how they wish they had your knowledge – how “wonderful” you are…  but dangerous too.  The only place from a pedestal is to fall..!!

So last week I was proclaiming to a colleague how I sometimes felt that I couldn’t always have the words that were lined up in my head, in all the right order, come out the same way and how I envied those who opened their mouths for metaphorical poetry to come out…    this very wise colleague paid me one of the best compliments as a Tutor I could think of.    She said that when I teach it made her believe that she too could do it – could learn the techniques I was teaching – could remember them easily – could use them for the client’s benefit… I made HER feel capable because the language I used was practical and realistic and totally feasible.  Rather than being an “icon” with “unachievable” skills and grandiosity (and metaphysical poetry !) I made it attainable for those in the class to believe they could accomplish it too.

Techniques are easy enough to learn - there is always the textbook to fall back on, but you can’t teach empathy, concern, a desire to keep going.   But if they want to, I hope that I can continue to make my students feel, with hard work and dedication, THEY too can learn and become a wonderful Kinesiologist.

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