Today, I’m one step to really helping out in emergency cases. I was taught how to make a Red Cross cravat for bandaging. Aside from that, I taught a classmate how to use some shortcuts on a Macbook, an information that I think is necessary in this age of multiple programs at hand.
The activities ultimately shaped the feedback that I will have to give to a client because honestly, I don’t give great feedbacks. I’m quick to point out mistakes but as Ma’am Dana taught me, the negatives must be sandwiched in between the positives so that we could end on a good note. And besides, I realized that most people would only want to continue learning after having been praised.
Additionally, I was able teach in the manner that I learned from the yoga class. My partner admired the fact that I used a modulated tone in teaching; however, I have yet to learn to pace my communication considering that sometimes, what I consider as easy may not be for the learner thereby requiring him/her more time to understand.
In teaching, I learned that a teacher would have to be highly aware of the learner’s capabilities, a knowledge necessary to plan the intervention. Failure to have this bit of information may cause yet another mishap that I faced as my learner apparently hadn’t learned a move that was necessary in the shortcut I have been teaching. Nevertheless, adjusting wasn’t that hard, making me believe that every teacher should be ready to gracefully pass little hurdles in the process as the learner may not exactly gauge what he/she knows in order to learn what we may be teaching.
For future reference, the use of a sandwiched feedback and a patient-focused teaching might be my constants as I perform my treatments. All these because a great teacher is well aware of the progress his/her students make.
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