7 Laws of the Teacher
by Howard Hendricks
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- Law of Teacher
- Teacher is coach and doesn’t play but teaches students to play
- Teaching is both a science and an art
- Knowledge is proud because knows so much, wisdom is humble because knows so little
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- Law of Education
- Key to education is not what you do but what the students do
- If you want to change someone, change their thinking, not their appearance.
- In parable of sower, only one difference: the sower is the same, the seed is the same, only the soil is different – its what people hear and do.
- You can not prohibit without providing – give opportunities
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- Law of Activity
- Maximum learning is a result of maximum invovlement
- Teaching is not an end but a means to an end
- I hear & forget; I see and remember; I do and understand
- You remember up to 10% of what you hear
- You remember up to 50% of what you hear and see
- You remember up to 90% of what you hear, see and do.
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- Law of Communication
- Test of communication is not what I’m feeling and saying, but what they are feeling and understanding
- Purpose of communication is not to impress, its to imporat; not to simply convince, its to change.
- Provide direction, not dictatorship
- You test your teaching by seeing what student is doing.
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- Law of Heart
- Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.
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- Law of Encouragement
- Someone’s M-Q (motivation-Q) is more important than their I-Q
- As a teacher, I can only work on the outside of them, I cannot work on the inside of them – so I must motivate them.
- Motivation is very important – many people do not do something just because they are not motivated. We can guilt people into things for a while and they do what is asked, but after a while, they will only do what they are motivated to do.
- When was the last time you challenged someone?
- Simply telling the student you believe in them
- You motivate a person when you
- Create a Need – everyone has needs, maybe just not aware of them, so the teacher must show them.
- By developing responsibility with accountability
- more you put into something, the more you appreciate it
- The US spends millions of dollars on an airplane and puts it into a young person to fly it – and when young person comes to church we don’t let them do anything.
- By structuring experience – what is process of training people:
- Telling stage – need to hear it
- Showing stage – need to see it
- Doing stage – need to hear, see and do it, but under supervision.
- Everyone can be motivated – but you first must be motivated yourself
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- Law of Readiness
- When student and teacher are readily prepared, more will be done.
- Learning is most effective when the student is adequately prepared
- If you come into the class asking about their lives, you will get more out of them contrary to just teaching