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# | Submitted | User | IP Address | Primary Interest or Emphasis | Primary role - "I am a..." | Years Studied | Internal Arts Studied | Other Internal Arts | Most important qualtiy or skill | Number 2 quality or skill | Number 3 | Number 4 | Number 5 | Comments |
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| 9 | 06/10/2010 - 8:47pm | cassie-xo | 208.101.74.204 | Meditative | Instructor | 4-8 | Xingyiquan (Hsing I Chuan) | motivates students | complete understanding | complete understanding | analytical skills | formal teaching skills | ||
| 8 | 05/04/2010 - 8:05am | arieswanderer | 24.255.62.22 | Martial | Novice | 0-3 | Other | complete understanding | empty cup | social & leadership skills | motivates students | teachers' hands | ||
| 7 | 03/28/2009 - 9:32am | Background reader | 77.97.167.151 | Martial | Instructor | 4-8 | Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) Xingyiquan (Hsing I Chuan) Other | Bajiquan | social & leadership skills | disciplined | experienced | patient | motivates students | Time served in years doesn't necessarily equal skill or knowledge. The best teacher is the person that can teach you to teach yourself. A teacher needs to be a teacher and not a training partner, students can be friends and assistants but there must be a bond of mutual respect between teacher and student or progress will not continue or come to fruition. A teacher must have enthusiasm and dedication to their art and act as an example to their students. Martial arts are primarily martial, other things are a bonus but without the context of martial practice the art loses its core. |
| 5 | 06/30/2008 - 8:06am | ric | 69.136.121.244 | Health | Novice | 0-3 | Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) | complete understanding | generous | dedicated | wise | precise | I think that complete understanding, dedicated, wise, and precise are all closely related. It's very hard to rank these qualities, but I put complete understanding at the top, because as well intentioned as an instructor might be, if they don't KNOW the subject matter thoroughly, they can convey to the best of their ability, and be as compassionate and generous as they are able, but they could not convey much of real value. It was more difficult to choose from among the others. They are of pretty equal importance, in that if an instructor lacked those qualities, it would be more difficult for the student to learn, but I put generous as second because after complete understanding, if the instructor were not generous (with sharing knowledge), the student would not learn. Without the dedication and precision, the instructor would not have arrived at complete understanding. Come to think of it, probably even Masters would think that even they themselves lack complete understanding. But in the context of teaching a class, I guess it means completely understanding the thing you are trying to convey. I included wisdom, and I mean that in the sense that the instructor would have the wisdom to discern what any given student needs to advance in his studies. Seems presumptuous of a novice like me to fill this out, but I'm doing it because I'd want these qualities in an instructor whatever subject they were teaching. | |
| 4 | 04/30/2008 - 4:38pm | Anonymous | 98.207.79.102 | Health | Instructor | 4-8 | Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) Xingyiquan (Hsing I Chuan) Baguazhang (Ba Gua Chuan) | analytical skills | teachers' eyes | teachers' hands | complete understanding | compassionate | I would add "formal teaching skills". A good teacher should study and practice not only his art but also just teaching in general. A grounding in education or some sort of learning theory is critical. You could use NLP or standard classroom management and other educational techniques as are taught in any BA of education program. There are really fundamental skills in teaching martial arts that I actually learned while teaching ESL and while studying to get TESOL certified. Learn how people learn. Get the right balance between spoon feeding and feeding fortune cookie fortunes to them. How do you create an environment for discovery? How do you teach a student to learn? Teaching is an entire field completely independent of martial arts but absolutely vital to being a good teacher. Many of the qualities listed in the survey could go into "teacher training" but there are different styles of teaching that use different combinations of qualities and they can all work. I just think someone should have spent time learning specifically how to teach. Not how to teach martial arts but just how to teach. After a couple years teaching ESL I learned not to think of my self as "teaching English". I realized that what I taught was not English. I taught middle school kids. As a martial arts teacher, it should be the same. You don't teach Taiji. You teach people. Kids, grownups, atheletes, soccer moms...whatever it is. The people are more important than the art. | |
| 3 | 04/30/2008 - 2:19pm | kelley g | 72.208.102.27 | Meditative | Instructor | 15-30 | Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) Xingyiquan (Hsing I Chuan) Baguazhang (Ba Gua Chuan) Other | I-Liq Chuan | complete understanding | empty cup | teachers' eyes | teachers' hands | generous |
