3 Principles to Teach Groups 

[English below] 

I spent most of today preparing my 3rd lesson for the Group Teaching Discovery Course I am doing with 37 English-speaking teachers online. 

I thought I'd share the description of the three principles I wrote for Lesson 3… 

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First, let the students decide what they want to explore. 

Getting this to happen is an art from your side - students have not usually encountered this kind of education in the past. They have identity confusion about your role and their own. 

You have the job to entice them to understand their responsibility. There are many ways you can achieve this. 

Second, transform the abstract into the practical.  

Be allergic to generalizations: whenever students try to talk about their problem in general, keep asking about when, where, what, how, who and why. Identity confusion happens here too: you are not a therapist or counselor, but they often see you as that.  

Your job is to transform their question into a specific activity, and analyze their movement behaviour as they perform it. 

Third, teach all your group through individuals.  

Group teaching is still about teaching individuals - you do that "all together, one after the other". There are several artful practices that will help you develop a balance between the individual, and the whole group. 

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That's it - distill those into action, and you have a perfect group. This is what you learn about in TeachingMethods as part of our learning program. Come find out more… 

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