Coyote Teaching - Some Salient Points
By Andrew Loh
Several teaching and educational theories exist in the academic
world that tries to improve and enhance a child's intelligence,
intellect and scholastic abilities. Most of the existing theories
and practices aim at educating a child in a purely academic manner.
It means that these methods make your children academically and
scholastically smarter. However, to succeed in life, scholastic and
academic achievements may not be enough. Your child need much more
than just scoring very good grades in his or her class. Succeeding
in life is a matter of reaching out to everything that exists in the
world apart from classroom lessons.
Coyote teaching and learning is a sophisticated system of teaching
and mentoring your child in an unusual manner. Pioneered and
developed by Tom Brown, Jr. and Jon Young, this system of education
plans to make your child empowered with a series of wonderful
techniques that are very near to the nature and your child's natural
instincts. In this system, a teacher will never provide direct
answers to children. Instead, she or he will answer with very tricky
questions just to inspire, cajole and encourage children go deeper
into the lessons taught. When your children dig deeper into the
lessons, they will be able to relate and connect different lesson
points into one single, comprehendible chunk.
A very successful coyote teacher will try to convince and inspire
children to master learning lessons on their own until they no
longer need the active support of coyote teachers. Another wonderful
aspect of this teaching system is that a well-trained child with
this system can easily teach other students in a way that help them
to learn faster and quicker. Coyote teaching is actually a mentoring
system that makes children well versed with classroom lessons, field
lessons and practical lessons.
Note: “When raised by a coyote one becomes a coyote”. This
most famous saying with coyote teaching!
Coyote teaching gives you many advantages and benefits when compared
to other educations systems. It seems that it is more natural and
effective in its training module. The main objective of coyote
teaching is learning outdoor survival skills. Other uses of this
wonderful learning systems are your children's ability to self learn
and collaborate with others to learn in an interactive manner. In
fact, it is a constructive mode of education where everyone
contributes his or her bit to study and master the lessons. The
instructor or the teacher will act merely as a mentor rather than a
dedicated teacher. In turn, your children will take responsibility
for their own learning, learn how to study and learn, learn how to
focus on learning and master the basics of survival skills.
Here some more benefits and advantages of this learning system:
The teacher will answer questions with leading questions that will
open children's mind to answer with conviction. Your children will
shed their inhibition, stage fright and classroom fear to mingle
with other children.
The teacher will urge the children to look around and observe the
nature to see and learn their specialties. With this superb ability,
your children can easily create a heightened awareness by learning
and mastering the nature.
Coyote teachers are very strong orally while story telling is the
preferred way of teaching children. Information comes to your
children via graphical illustrations and stories.
Coyote teachers always use tricks and techniques to drive hone their
points. The main idea is to force your children to commit mistakes
so that they can learn from those mistakes.
Coyote mentoring is a process of making children empowered with
special mentoring abilities so that they can teach other children!
Coyote teachers are not just teachers but they are the real time
mentors who show an active interest in their children.
Coyote teachers can use a number of methods and techniques to teach
their children. They could be storytelling, writing, video lessons
or even dances.
Engagement and active learning are the two most important outcomes
with coyote teaching. Coyote teaching enforces a where the learning
becomes compelling and necessary.
In the end, coyote teaching attempts to spark curiosity and
inquisitiveness among children and later help them create a
self-directed learning experience that trains them to seek answers
to any questions on their own. Another important benefit of this
system is your children's ability to act as mentors to other
children who could be weak in studies. More numbers of schools are
realizing the importance of coyote teaching and they are trying to
use this method to teach their children. Continue to read
Coyote Teaching - Methods and Techniques here!