Reluctant/Difficult Learners or Inflexible Teachers?

This is another of the basic presuppositions of NLP and which has plenty of applications outside the classroom as well. 'Reluctant or difficult' learners are none other than those that the teacher has decided to give up. Reluctance and resistance is not so much an attribute of them but much more so a measure of your inability to be responsible for what is happening in your classroom. Remember 'responsibility' is no more than your ability to respond. OK so, yes this can be a challenge to accept or believe but that isn't really the point. As soon as you leave your preconceptions aside, experiment and act as if it were 100% true, you increase your flexibility ten-fold. This freedom allows you to increase your repertoire and you soon notice the differences in the responses you get.

"If the child is not learning the way you are teaching, then you must teach in the way the child learns" - Rita Dunn

" A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron." - Horace Mann (1796-1859)

Make it a great week, it's your choice.

My best

Séamus