After watching the clip on being "Strengths Focused" by Marcus Buckingham it really opened my eyes in terms of my personal teaching style. Being raised in a society that focuses so much on improving our weaknesses and having that pounded into our heads from a young age is something that is a little difficult to change. The idea of emphasizing what we are already good at and focusing on improving on those skill sets is something that totally makes sense. The question was posed, "why do we spend so much time trying to improve our weaknesses and leave our talents to the way side"? This is an interesting question for me. This theory is something that made me really reflect on my up-bringing and now my teaching style in the classroom. I might spend too much time worrying about what my kids don't do well, and not enough time helping them expand their talents even further than they already are.
With that being said, I also feel that there is a time and place to help re-mediate the skills that my students lack. There has to be a balance of sorts to make a more complete student athlete. Nevertheless, I will most definitely do more reflecting in my teaching and coaching so that I might find that balance of not just working on things that they do not do well, but also help to expand their skills and knowledge further than they expected. I feel that I do a very good job of building a rapport with my student athletes. This is something that helps me reach students and players when things get tough.
I'm in my "sweet spot" when I'm focused and can gauge my class or team and know when to push them harder and challenge them and when I should pull up a little. Sometimes, I feel out of my areas of strengths when I'm not prepared. Any class or team can tell when their teacher or coach is not well prepared with a lesson or a practice/game plan. There have been times when I have just "winged" it and it all works out. However, I'm not very comfortable and I learned that this is not my area of strengths. I am a person that needs a "game plan" for everything.
With that being said, I also feel that there is a time and place to help re-mediate the skills that my students lack. There has to be a balance of sorts to make a more complete student athlete. Nevertheless, I will most definitely do more reflecting in my teaching and coaching so that I might find that balance of not just working on things that they do not do well, but also help to expand their skills and knowledge further than they expected. I feel that I do a very good job of building a rapport with my student athletes. This is something that helps me reach students and players when things get tough.
I'm in my "sweet spot" when I'm focused and can gauge my class or team and know when to push them harder and challenge them and when I should pull up a little. Sometimes, I feel out of my areas of strengths when I'm not prepared. Any class or team can tell when their teacher or coach is not well prepared with a lesson or a practice/game plan. There have been times when I have just "winged" it and it all works out. However, I'm not very comfortable and I learned that this is not my area of strengths. I am a person that needs a "game plan" for everything.