Product reviews for Teaching Toward Solutions

In my own mind there is a vast difference between training and teaching ” for me teaching is imparting facts and figures whereas training involves both teaching and active learning, and Linda Metcalfe's book on moving toward solutions in my mind embraces both. So it is with great enthusiasm that I review a book that actually addresses the solutions to “teaching challenges' appearing more and more regularly within the schooling system.

The fact that Linda has understood that everyone's behaviour is as a result of many different sources is encouraging. Trying to put all children or adults into one learning box is going to ask for challenges.

NLP has demonstrated capably that our behaviour is directly linked to what each individual perceives of the world through the five senses and more importantly through our languaging. In the current system in the rush to get from A-Z in a school curriculum, many teachers are oblivious to the fact that their teaching and languaging methods are not empowering the students to the joy of learning.

Thus having a manual presented by Linda Metcalfe as “solution' orientated is welcome and timely for those teachers who are dedicated and serious to ensuring their teaching practices are reaching the majority of students within their classroom.

As a trainer for “demonstrating how to learn more effectively' the book holds some excellent concepts that even I had not considered when it comes to behavioural mechanisms demonstrated by my participants. And what is more important is the encouragement Linda has written about in terms of persistence of “reaching out' to the students. The sure sign of a successful person in any field.

The role plays, the scenarios and case studies are all well written and amply demonstrate the need for the world of education to become more in alignment with personal development rather than just imparting of facts and figures which have little impact in terms of life skills.

Working towards solutions is leading by example and also having the compassion to “touch, move and inspire' another into their greatness through their own abilities to learn effectively. This book allows the teacher and student to take responsibility for their own actions and reactions whilst at the same time developing rapport, creativity, communication par excellence and much much more.

This is not a bedtime story ” however in terms of those who are serious about understanding how to create the best possible solution for those challenges whether training or teaching ” this book is an enjoyable read offering suggestions and points to consider that will literally allow both the teacher/trainer and student to fulfill their potential at an even greater level.