EPISODE · Oct 29, 2018 · 17 MIN
#035 Entrenched Student Beliefs
from The Tutor Podcast · host Neil Cowmeadow
Welcome back to another edition of The Tutor Podcast. Today, Neil dives into entrenched student beliefs, how you can discover them and why you need to defeat them. Your student's belief system is one of the toughest obstacles to learning and you need to overcome this in your teaching room. Learn how to harness, redirect and subvert or eliminate your student’s beliefs, so that you can become a better tutor and they can become a better student. Tune in to hear Neil explain how to identify them, how to elicit them and how to deal with, your student’s belief system. KEY TAKEAWAYS What people do in their day jobs will cross over into their personal lives. So if we as teachers can understand how your students think and how they work you can harness the power of parrels between their job. You will discover that certain students with certain jobs will take to learning in different ways. Some better than others. Listen, identify and modify your student's beliefs and build up enough evidence through teaching and conversing that their old belief system falls down. Student beliefs are important because it defines their actions and defines their identity. A students belief system will govern their decisions. BEST MOMENTS “Make sure you always have a notebook open in your teaching room. Capture your great ideas.” “The word ‘But’ negates anything that’s come before it. Don’t use this when teaching. Use words like ‘Yet’ to give hope and praise to your students.” “Knowledge is all learning.” “People run the same beliefs in their personal life, that they do in their day job.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Neil Cowmeadow - Weird Things Guitarists Do www.Neilcowmeadow.com ABOUT THE HOST Neil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil’s invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS! CONTACT METHOD [email protected]
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Welcome back to another edition of The Tutor Podcast. Today, Neil dives into entrenched student beliefs, how you can discover them and why you need to defeat them. Your student's belief system is one of the toughest obstacles to learning and you need to overcome this in your teaching room. Learn how to harness, redirect and subvert or eliminate your student’s beliefs, so that you can become a better tutor and they can become a better student. Tune in to hear Neil explain how to identify them, how to elicit them and how to deal with, your student’s belief system. KEY TAKEAWAYS What people do in their day jobs will cross over into their personal lives. So if we as teachers can understand how your students think and how they work you can harness the power of parrels between their job. You will discover that certain students with certain jobs will take to learning in different ways. Some better than others. Listen, identify and modify your student's beliefs and build up enough evidence through teaching and conversing that their old belief system falls down. Student beliefs are important because it defines their actions and defines their identity. A students belief system will govern their decisions. BEST MOMENTS “Make sure you always have a notebook open in your teaching room. Capture your great ideas.” “The word ‘But’ negates anything that’s come before it. Don’t use this when teaching. Use words like ‘Yet’ to give hope and praise to your students.” “Knowledge is all learning.” “People run the same beliefs in their personal life, that they do in their day job.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Neil Cowmeadow - Weird Things Guitarists Do www.Neilcowmeadow.com ABOUT THE HOST Neil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil’s invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS! CONTACT METHOD [email protected]
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