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well done, buddy

Thomas, das sieht furchtbar aus!!! Tu was!!

Help a non-native speaker: Does charter mean something like a contract? If so, I do agree. Hey, Norm, how do you feel – surrounded by blogging women?

It was a pleasure

From my experience as a teacher and a trainer, I’d like to highlight the following aspects: a) Rules / group norms can only be established successfully if developed together with the students. It takes some time to do so but it is worth the effort and can be combined with Getting-to know-activities. b) We tend to forget the wrap-ups and group processing, particularly when the lessons are only short (45 minutes in Germany). But it is most important to make use of wrap-ups as they give relevant information, foster higher level thinking and have students see the relevance of group work.

In fact I’m thankful for the gift of forgetting at times. Think of all the worries and arguments with students or colleagues. How could we go on if every sad detail lingered on our minds?

Besides, my forgetfulness gives my students the chance to show their mastery. So I agree with you, Kathy: if we can join and work collectively we not only experience support, we also achieve much better results.

I enjoyed this conversation very much. Each of us have experienced the idea of insufficiency and failure in a world of growing information. I agree with Peter when he says that our good old brain is not worse than that of our ancestors but it isn`t much better either. It is a survival organ not meant to handle any bit of information we could possibly get about any event in the world. And why should we? I agree with Peter: It is the quality that counts, not the quantity. The best ideas and concepts were born at a time when information was limited. We get nervous by the idea that the very thought we have at this moment might have been uttered a few moments ago by an even more sophisticated person – which makes our own ideas not that original as we presumed it to be. But is that really important?

If we have a closer look at our brain, we must realize that in fact it was rather made to forget than to remember. There has always been an overload of information and the brain has its own way to deal with it. What we call failure (out-put oriented as we are) can also be called the greatest gift that we have. It is self-protection. (Well, you shouldn’t really remind me of this when I’m standing in front of my class or trainees trying to remember the nice idea that struck my mind a second ago or the vital information I wanted to give…..). It is not us that are dysfunctional. There has always been a flood of information around us but today we have more access to it than ever before. That is great in a way but if we feel minimized by it, we underestimate ourselves. Information is like social contacts. We can have lots and lots but they only make us happy when we can connect them meaningfully to our lives. There might be thousands of wonderful people outside in the world – out of reach – but I can cope only with a limited amount of contacts. So it is important to make those contacts meaningful and deep.

On the other hand it is really exciting to meet people here who I can share my thoughts with. It is not the availability of information and the flood and speed of information that should scare us. We should be worried about our reaction of inferiority as to this process.

Hi Meri, thank you for sharing this with the community Carmen

I loved this lesson, Paola!

Who does not remember such enlightening lessons???? ;))

Hey, I liked it, boy!! Carmen