her response Martial Arts Book retell - Martial Arts education by Lawrence A. Kane
I recently had the occasion to read one of Lawrence A. Kane's books entitled, "Martial Arts Instruction: Applying Educational ideas and transportation Techniques in the Dojo" and found it to be a marvelous book for anyone complex in the teaching of students and not just those complex in the martial arts. This book is a marvelous source for reference material regarding the art of teaching, and yes, I do feel that teaching is an art form.
Martial Arts Book retell - Martial Arts education by Lawrence A. Kane
The advent Lawrence takes in this book is simple, yet loaded with an plenty of facts that shows you discrete methods that you can legitimately combine into your own single style of teaching regardless of what the single subject is. I can almost certify you that if you buy this book and study it for a few weeks, and then start applying the facts that you have learned, that you will see a preponderant improvement in your own teaching ability, while at the same time see a marked improvement in your students.
When I first read this book, I identified with a lot of the mistakes that Lawrence mentioned regarding my own teaching style especially when I first started teaching students a minute over 20 years ago. Although it is imperative that we as individuals make our own mistakes, it is not that easy or desirable to make mistakes when you are responsible for the amelioration of an additional one individual. Although Lawrence's focus is on teaching the martial arts, a lot of what he tells you could also be used when teaching your own children. However, you would have to modify your teaching method a bit.
The following is a brief reveal of each of the six chapters in this book and what there main focus is on.
Chapter One: comprehension studying Style Differences
In this chapter, Lawrence delves into the dissimilar types of personalities that an teacher will legitimately find in his students, as well as, how to tailor your teaching style to best suit each private personality type. He also delves into the use of the five senses in order to improve your teaching potential so that your students not only preserve more information, but also enjoy the lessons being taught.
The five senses are; seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling, and smelling. Although it isn't practical to hire the use of all five in every part plan, you should try and devise a few that you could use once every month or so. I used a similar advent once teaching a group of law promulgation officers and the response I received was very encouraging. It works so use it.
Chapter Two: Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Tool to Understand student Predilections
This single part is quite complex, yet Lawrence makes is all seem rather uncomplicated with his easy to understand explanation of the discrete personality types and how they are best mighty to learn and preserve information. In this section, Lawrence supplies you with some very good resource material to have your own personality tested in order to rule what type of personality you have and what method of teaching is more conducive to your potential to learn.
Chapter 3: Applications of the Six Teaching Styles to Martial Arts
The six teaching styles discussed in this section are; modeling, lecturing, cooperative performance, independent performance, knowledge capture, and role reversal.
Lawrence describes in information each one of these teaching styles and provides good examples of when to teach that single method and how to apply it to the teaching of the martial arts.
Chapter 4: Fostering a safe bet studying Environment
In my humble conception there is one section in this part that perhaps says it all when it comes to the potential to teach an additional one person, and that is the attitude of the teacher.
This was the single most prominent thing that jumped out at me when I read this book. Although there is tons of useful facts provided within the pages of this book, none of it is going to be worth the proverbial hill of beans without the allowable attitude being displayed by the teacher.
Etiquette or respect for oneself and others is so vitally prominent not only to the studying environment, but also the living environment where we have to co-exist with so many dissimilar citizen from a vast array of backgrounds and cultures.
Another great subject that Lawrence brings up in this section is the significance of a solid emotional and corporal environment in which to teach your students. The one undeniable single factor that is prevalent in everything that Lawrence discusses is the teacher. He or she is the one who will make or break a class and/or the students in it. You can have the most lively subject and something that you are hugely passionate about come to be the most boring and painful contact if the teacher is horrible. Or you can take the most boring subject and make it lively if the teacher is passionate and knowledgeable about how to get his/her facts across to the students.
Along with a lot more facts on the role of the teacher, Lawrence also spends some time going over some very solid facts on how to find the martial art and martial arts school that is best mighty for you.
Chapter 5: Developing and Implementing part Plans for the Dojo
This section covers not only how to devise, refine and implement a part plan, but also how to adapt when the plan you have is not working. It also covers a lot of legitimately solid facts on the martial arts itself and the discrete nuances that are prevalent within it.
Lawrence also has a lot of legitimately solid useful facts regarding the martial arts and their use in a self-defense situation. He gives a combine of legitimately good examples from his own personal contact that shows what may be a preferable way to deal with a situation rather than resorting to corporal means. Although one must all the time keep in mind that no two situations are going to be same and what may work well in one situation may not work well in another.
Chapter 6: Conclusion/Stages of Teaching
This section is rather brief as I am sure the author intended and merely goes over that which he has discussed in the former chapters. However, there are some very good tidbits of facts included here and in the next 40+ pages.
This book, like all of Lawrence's books, is filled with solid useful facts regarding anyone subject he has written about. There is much that can be learned from them and I very recommend that you buy them and study the facts contained in each one of his books.
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