Suppose Like an Educator – Ideas for Yoga Trainer Trainers

When a yoga trainer decides to take the leap and develop a trainer coaching, there’s a basic shift that should happen: we have now to begin considering like an educator, quite than an knowledgeable.

And knowledgeable is somebody who’s passionate, skilled, and educated about their chosen topic. An educator is somebody who can encourage others to a unique stage of efficiency. Let’s take a look at how these are completely different.

If we method our trainer coaching like an knowledgeable, we could make what I name, “The Nice Mistake.” The nice mistake is considering that schooling is about what I inform my college students. If we predict this fashion, then we’re tempted to offer college students the contents of our heads. We predict that if we simply give them sufficient data, they are going to be educated. Though that is very well-intentioned, it usually results in a “hearth hose” method the place we saturate college students with data.

As a substitute, to assume like an educator, we have now to vary our perspective. Slightly than considering that schooling is about what I inform my college students, I alter the main target. I reframe the expertise and outline schooling as what my college students can DO.

By making schooling about what our college students can do because of the training expertise, I alter the main target of the expertise from me (what I say or present) to the scholar (how the scholar can carry out in another way). From this perspective, I’m now targeted on the scholar’s measurable efficiency. I can set a transparent benchmark for what I need the scholar to have the ability to reveal or articulate on the finish the lesson.

This variation could appear easy, however it’ll remodel the training expertise in profound methods:

• As an educator, I now must set clear targets for scholar efficiency,
• I take the main target off of me and put it on the scholar,
• I get clear about what “inputs” the scholar wants to attain the specified efficiency, which defuses the hazard of “firehosing” them with pointless data,
• I’ve a transparent concept of how I’ll assess the scholar’s success.

Earlier than you create your subsequent lesson plan, workshop, or trainer coaching, pause to assume:

What do I need the scholar to have the ability to DO because of this studying expertise?

This easy inquiry will show you how to take the leap from knowledgeable to educator, and assist your college students to have a profitable studying expertise.