Tuesday

Becoming an instructor #1

The first quality necessary when seeking to become an instructor is that you must have something to teach.

Not only must you have information and experience, you need a level of knowledge that enables you to see connections, associations and themes - linkages between apparently separate qualities/components.

To posses this degree of insight, your own research, study and training must transcend mere regurgitation. For an instructor, it is not enough to copy and then pass on the same material. You must see things from many different angles, and be capable of selecting the most appropriate route for the given student's perceptual capacity.

A vast number of hours must be spent in solo and partnered training, watching, thinking and reading. Test, dismantle, explore and start again.

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