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Assistants
Assistants work with Rachel to teach
the tai chi for health and
tai chi
for fitness curriculum.
They are all enthusiastic, friendly and enjoy
training tai chi.
Despite being conscientious and keen, nobody takes themselves too
seriously.
Who are they?
Teaching assistant: Chris Young
Chris
Chris possesses
terrific people skills and is a 'natural' when it comes to teaching
students. He is an versatile mentor; offering a zero-pressure approach to
the cultivation of the desired skills. With an extensive background in martial
arts (including karate black belts) Chris brings a lot
of insight and martial experience to his tai chi.
Assistant levels
There are 3 stages of assistant in our school:
Helper (tai chi for health)
Teaching assistant (tai chi for health)
Assistant teacher (tai chi for health)
1) Helper
Helpers occasionally help Rachel but have no ongoing responsibilities
within the school.
2) Teaching assistant
A teaching assistant is responsible for multiple groups within the
tai chi for health class and will attend to these on a frequent basis.
3) Assistant teacher
An assistant teacher can (to some extent) step-in and cover the class
for Rachel when she has other responsibilities within the school.
Suitability
Assistants
all possess qualities necessary for
tai chi instruction:
Friendly and personable
Interested in other people
Caring
Reliable
Earnest
Committed
Trustworthy
Genuine
Punctual
Motivated
Expressing the teaching
Being an assistant is a challenge; it requires the student to articulate skills and
ideas in a way that makes sense to other people.
This requires considerable effort. Expressing
the teaching to somebody else is not easy.
Dismantling
In order to explain, you must dismantle things, give examples, illustrate
and demonstrate.
You need to answer questions and to re-consider your own perceptions.
Mark is an extremely successful high school mathematics teacher. When we
asked him when he really learned calculus, he said, "When I first taught it.
There is no better way to learn anything than to actually
teach it. When I
teach something, I have to confront many fundamental questions: What is the
motivation to learn this topic? What are the basic examples? On what aspects
of this material should I focus? What are the underlying themes? What ties
the ideas together? What is the global structure? What are the important
details? These questions force me to discover the heart of the matter, and
see exactly what I truly understand and what I still need to work on."
(Edward B Burger & Michael Starbird)
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Last updated
11 April 2024