The Art of Teaching

By Bryce Hess and Adam Price

This is a guide to help teachers and students of all ages, experience, styles, and opinions. There is a specific intent to this book: it isn't meant to provide answers. Instead, it is purposed to provide those who read it with their personal pathway to discovering their personal answers. It is dependent on action, enthusiasm, experimenting, and questions to see the best results.
Teaching is constantly evolving. If you will approach this ready to apply yourself to your own revelations, then this book will help you navigate that environment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bryce Hess
• Release date: Oct 22, 2018
• ISBN: 9781644674796

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THE ART OF TEACHING

by Bryce Hess

The Student vs. the Teacher

Chapter 1

There are those who exist with the desire to achieve and succeed, with no knowledge of their own to draw upon to do so. They arrive with varying levels of expectation, preparedness, and teachability; ultimately, they set the bar for what they receive. These are called students. The student has the responsibility to learn. They bear the weight of application. It is set forth by life itself that whosoever deems and defines himself or herself as a student must first and foremost seek understanding, and then walk the path set forth by that learning.

Failure is required. Faith and acceptance are required. Patience rewards those who possess it. Endurance brings the joy of success.

Students should respect their teachers, yet challenge the lessons they receive. They should yield their ignorance to experience, but allow knowledge and understanding to be revealed instead of forced. In short, one must know how to give if they are to receive. It is not the teacher’s responsibility to see they learn the information, but instead to enable them to pursue the learning themselves. The student is the only end-result to their efforts; however, a good teacher can show them the paths available to find their best solutions.

There are those who exist with the experience to succeed in life. They exist in various fields, passions, and interests and possess the skill to influence and impact the world. They are faced with a polarizing choice to keep those experiences to themselves or to offer them to others. Those who choose to share their knowledge with others become facilitators or teachers. They become foster guardians of students. Even as teachers, though, they will forever be students and hopefully retain the value inherent.

Patience is required. Faith and acceptance are required. Failure is appreciated. Humility expands their understanding and wisdom.

Teachers should respect their students, accepting the desires and innocence they bring and should reciprocate with challenges, opportunities, and positive, yet correct, reinforcement. It is not their responsibility to ensure their students learn, but rather to