How do you teach?
How do you learn?
I don’t have a degree in teaching or education but I do have 74 years on this earth that have given me numerous examples of how I learn, both through deliberate, planned study and through the everyday of ‘life”: how I present information when I’m sharing something with friends and how I teach qigong both informally and formally.
Human beings are playful people and learn best through their own experiences. There should, in most cases, be some guidance and some boundaries, hence risk assessments that identify dangerous cliffs or dangerous ways of moving joints. But on the whole, I have found there is a limit to how long people can concentrate when sitting or standing still. And that that limit is much longer when people are moving and longer still when they are with other people who are also moving. Continue reading “Teaching and Learning”