How teaching makes you better

HOW TEACHING CAN HELP YOU UNDERSTAND BETTER?

The learning by teaching method has been demonstrated in many studies. Students who spend time teaching what they’ve learned go on to show better understanding and retention than students who simply spend the same time re-studying. What remains unresolved, however, is exactly why teaching helps the teacher better understand and retain what they’ve learned.For a new study in Applied Cognitive Psychology researchers led byAloysius WeiLun Koh set out to test their theory that teaching improves the teacher’s learning because it compels the teacher to retrieve what they’ve previously studied.In other words, they believe the learning benefit of teaching is simply another manifestation of the well-known “testing effect”– the way that bringing to mind what we’ve previously studied leads to the deeper and longer-lasting acquisition of that information than more time spent passively re-studying.Here are the top three ways it helps you become a pro at that topic.

BEING A TEACHER IS AN EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE

The art of teaching comes from both the brain and the heart. It’s a journey that revolves around your ability to connect, inspire and enableyour learners and your colleagues. This also includes the one who will fight you every stepof the way.One of the crucial things to understand about teaching is that people are emotional creatures, we have no idea what another person’s journey is all about, it’s hard to remember the colleagues resisting change are afraid of losing a…