A Perfect Textbook to be used as you prepare and plan your most challenging lessons
A treasure chest of a text, I only have praise for this manual. Teachers who love teaching or who want to regain the love for teaching can use this book, which offers itself as a wonderful way to reinvigorate teaching practise using NLP.
NLP is simply a set of wonderful techniques used to change around your own thinking so you are in a position of master your own communications in your Teaching practice. Anyone involved in the communication of teaching will immediately find the value of the book. Treat yourself well, but having this sort of support workbook around as acts to remind you to keep the communication relationship are the most in your teaching. It keeps you uplifted, balancing your dreams with practical steps in this set book.
Anyone involved in pedagogy, will see how much communication most needs your attention in your teaching career. It teaches you how to prioritise your time, the most valuable commodity you own and to place within it the most fundamental communication skills. For any teacher in training or seeking to improve their classroom practise with NLP, this book emphasises, sound practises. Chapter by chapter invites you to try out different NLP exercises, which stretch and strengthen your existing talents, skills and natural gifts into the space between you, the students, parents, and colleagues you interact with.
What's admirable about this manual is that it makes very clear those characteristics of effective teachers. E.g. your expectations that you have for yourself and others and how you might improve or reframe them if that is necessary. A book written with lots of respect for the teacher and the teaching experience. It redirects any teacher to put their attention on what they want to create in the class and to move on from feeling guilt or any other negative feelings generated from failed teaching sessions.
For those who are especially sceptical, it provides lots of exercises which allow the sceptic to work things out for themselves. To test the material out for themselves. To put each section to the challenge and to notice for themselves the positive changes which occur in the classroom as a result of applying the various NLP exercises. To identify in precise and achievable outcomes, what you may want to accomplish. Chapters ask you to focus on your attitude. They each support you to put yourself into a decisive position. To decide how you want to communicate with learners. How to enjoy teaching and be generous about that too. Before further inspiring the reader to take more positive action, it shows how to plan out lessons from taking an internal approach. Lesson planning triggering and activating emotions, feelings, memories, and internal future representations teaching the teacher ho to assist them to create well formed outcomes bringing all their training together using all the inrwebL senses they have.
Rapport, pacing and leading. Effective and aspiring effective teachers will get even more opportunities to praictse how to build rapport using specific language patterns. Known to influence learners, parents and colleagues.
How to use praise in all its ways, is a major chapter of the book. Know how to use praise to get feedback from learners. Becoming skilled at how to use language to pay tribute to learners, parents and colleagues, increases your own flexibility to change their behaviour, language, or internal feelings about themselves. And this is all a seriously important part of learners taking action for themselves.
Utilise everything
Each chapter teaches you to harness, and utilise where you are currently at in your teaching practise. Each has something to attach importance to as you put into use your treasures. It's a practical book, so it requires you to set up a programme of activity for yourself to learn and practice the material. It's a real great reminder text and rather than simply give you inspiration, it then gives you the most easy to apply NLP exercises.
Memory and Anchoring
The two chapters, which show the teacher how to use the memory, and anchoring to create and recreate internal strengths, which learners can draw from, are exquisitely easy to follow and apply.
More useful chapters!
a chapter on how to use questions in teaching, a chapter on defining what you value about teaching and updating those values if necessary so you remain flexible in the classroom whilst being true to self. And a chapter on motivation, which is key to learner retention.
Personal 'favourite things I cherish', about the text are its size. It's big enough to carry around. It has jargon buster sections and its very clear illustrations that help to increase a person's rapport with the learners, parent or colleague. More than an introduction to NLP, it is a text you can use each day as you plan your communication messages for each of your lessons. Superb.
Highly recommended: Should be on teachers mandatory reading list.