Learning while teaching

Learning while teaching. In honor of my dear friend, Bob Pike!

Robert “Bob” Pike (http://cttnewsletters.com), is a great trainer’s trainer, a master. His fifth learning law sets: You know how much you have learned, when you have to cooperate with the education of others”. He also states: “When you can successfully transfer the knowledge you have gained to other person, you can say that you have accomplished your goal as Facilitator”. My abilities are confirmed, when I can communicate what I know to another person.

“Who teaches, learn while teaching and who learns, teach while learning” – Paulo Freire.

Dr. William Glasser, an internationally recognized Psychiatrist (http://www.wglasser.com) reinforces this statement when he says: “we learn about 95% of what we teach”.

When we are up to teaching a specific topic, we get ready in a special manner, we use all the resources we have, and we go beyond saying what we know. We look for information, structuring, analyzing, organizing, preparing and transforming it in order to we can communicate it, in both rational and emotional way to our Learning Partners so that they can clearly understanding it.

At the end, the result is about consolidating our knowledge as well as being more expert than before teaching.

We develop our expertise during the process of preparing our methods of approach, explanation and demonstration.  We deepen our knowledge when we make from learning, a dialogue with ourselves, and with those whom we are sharing the knowledge.

As Facilitators, we set with our Learning Partners, dynamic relationships that make us stronger as people. Jointly with them, we are active drivers of the gotten results exchanging visions and perceptions.

Then, teaching is a process that goes far beyond of communicating knowledge. It is an encounter space in which the partners (Facilitator and Apprentice) aim to give sense to the gained information.

Each learning experience in which we participate as Facilitators, becomes a great opportunity to know and contrast new points of view, experiences and particular ways of seeing and understanding the world. This is what makes the learning process a virtuous circle in which all of us have something to teach and something to learn.

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