This coaching tip kicks off an 8 part series on simple strategies for maximizing your student’s ability to learn. These tips come from a lecture by Debra Bell. The first simple strategy is actually one that you’re utilizing right now: have a teacher that cares.
The part about this we’re all probably already aware of, is that when the teacher cares, they want to do better and so they do better. It’s more important for them to see the student succeed and so the teacher works harder to make it happen. That’s not the end of it, though. It actually goes deeper than that. When the teacher cares, the student knows it, and it makes it easier for the student to care. When we care about something, we put ourselves at risk. We risk embarrassment for exposing something important to us. We risk heartache should we fail. When the teacher cares, and the student knows it, the student knows that they won’t be alone if they put themselves out on that limb and care about what they’re learning, too.
This is an important strategy for better learning, but the good news is you’re already there. As the parent, no one cares more about teaching your teen to drive collision-free than you. You care a whole lot about what you’re teaching them, so now you just need to let your teenager know. Let them know how much you care about their driver education, so that they can feel good about caring, too. Watch this video to see Patrick Barrett, the Driver Education Guru, explain more about this strategy for better learning.