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1. Introduction: This world is favoring
those who can explain complex topics with
crystal clarity. What point is it? And being a subject
matter expert, if others have no clue
what you're saying. Every time you're speaking, you're confusing other people. This isn't the way
to go about it. Our goal is to know a lot and it's to explain
it in such an easy to understand way that
other people have no choice but to understand
what we are saying. Teaching is not something that we just happen to stumble upon. It's a craft, a
science, it's an art. And that's exactly
what we're going to be learning in this class. In this class, you're
going to understand what exactly is teaching
and what it isn't. You're going to understand
simple strategies on how to turn complex topics
into Simplicity. You'll go to also understand the strategic practice
methods to make sure that you're sharpening
your teaching blade. Are you ready to level up your explanation skills and turn complex topics into simplicity? If so, I look forward
to seeing you inside.
2. What is Teaching?: Teaching is all about
educating someone. And education stems
from the Latin word, which means to draw out
what is already within. That's what teaching
is all about. You want to assume that this
person knows everything. But for some strange
reason, they forgot. Your goal as a teacher is to draw out what is already within. You want to remind them
of what they forgot. This is an empowering
way to teach. Because if you're over
here reminding them of something that they've already known their entire life, then you're not
falling into the trap of lecturing them too much. Lecturing them too much is when you're pretty much
talking at them. You're giving them formulas. You're giving them charts, statistics, and just
babbling on away. While this student is falling asleep there nodding their head, pretending like
they're listening. But you're not necessarily drawing out what
is already within. Therefore, they feel bored. Or goal as a teacher is to remind them of more
things that they know. By reminding them of
what they already know, they are much more
likely to apply the information that
we're teaching them.
3. Curious Mind: There's an ancient
saying that says, fire does not light wet wood. Fire lights dry wood. Wet wood represents a
mind that is not curious. While dry wood represents
a mind that is curious. When we're teaching a student, we want to make sure that
the student is curious regarding the topic that
we're going to teach them. Otherwise, we're gonna be
wasting a lot of time. But I get it. You may be in that position right now where you don't have the luxury of only teaching
students who are curious. Well, luckily for
the later videos, I'm going to explain
what to do about that. But let's say you
do have control over the students that you pick. You want to ensure
that they're curious, that their mind is Dr. once
you give them the fire of knowledge is going
to light ablaze. Student who is curious makes the whole teaching process fun. It's elegant. Is this nice dance from back
and forth, back and forth. If you're some sort
of consultant, if you're some sort of coach, then into teach people
that are already curious.
4. Know A lot: The first step in
order to teach this, to know a lot about a topic. You may be thinking, well, how do I exactly know? If I know a lot about a topic? You don't never fully know. You honestly just
keep on finding out as you begin your
teaching process. But here's what I can tell you. If you're someone that is
having skin in the game, you're in the battlefield, you consistently
practicing this topic. Then you're gonna know a lot about the topic sooner or later. If you also set the intention, I am going to know a
lot about the topic. Not only are you going to gain practical experience
on the certain field, you're also going to get
theoretical knowledge, hopefully by reading
books, by studying, by constantly
consuming more videos, lectures on the topic, by combining theory
with practice. That's when we become a
mega mind of knowledge. This is when we
can start to feel confident in knowing
a whole bunch about this field because we have studied it and we
have practiced it.
5. Meet Them Where They Are: The next thing we
want to do is meet the student exactly
where they are. This tip is going to be
tough for some people because let's say you just got through step number
one where you know, a whole bunch of other topic, your primary get involved. You may be thinking, why am I going to bring myself
down to this guy's level? This guy should be bringing himself or herself to my level. That's the wrong
way to look at it. We're not necessarily
saying that we're going to dumb ourselves down to a point where we're
stripping away the content. When I say that we're meeting
this person where they are, I'm seeing that we need
to alter our delivery. We don't want to be using
these complex topics, words, concepts that they have no
clue to the understanding of. They don't even understand
the language of the field. What we want to do is we want to meet them where they are. We got to know our
student just a little bit or better yet, we can know ourselves a lot. Think about how it was like when you are first
learning the field, what were some of the pain
points that U1 through? Were you going through stuff
that you didn't know at the time that you now know all the stuff
from your past self, you can superimpose
it to your student. You can empathize
with the student. And so it's much easier
to bring yourself down to their level and to
simplify your delivery. The more that we
simplify our delivery, the more debt will
tell some jokes, will use compelling,
riveting analogies. And we're gonna be giving
a whole bunch of examples. Now we're playing a game that is fun when we're teaching,
no longer boring.
6. Strategic Engagement: What's one subject that you
wish you'd learned sooner? Remind thinking of a
response right now. Did you know anytime we ask someone else a question there, consciously or subconsciously
thinking of a response. This is something that
you want to know, especially as a teacher. As we're explaining the topic, we want to make sure
that we're every now and then doing
strategic engagement. I'm I making sense. Is there any part that
you're not understanding? You really
understanding it or are you just nodding your
head like a dummy? As we're consistently
engaging them, the more debt there mind is starting to look for responses. We don't want to force anyone
to answer any questions. But if we're just asking them, that means their mind is getting engaged and
they're much more likely to apply the information
that we are giving them. Also, this allows
us to slow down. Because every now and
then, as a teacher, you'll notice that it's super easy to go into lecture mode where you're
just talking at them. You can't even recall the
last time that they spoke. You can't even recall the
last time that they raise your hand is because you
are just over here talking. Depending on the environment. You can't even recall
the last time that you faced the student because your back is facing
them as you're facing the board writing
all these formulas. Whenever you engage, strategic
engagement with questions, you slow yourself down. Not only do you
bring the students, but you bring
yourself in as well. And this allows for communication
of the topic at hand.
7. Answer Questions: I hate it when I will just get
done explaining something. The student had
questions for me. I would think you have
questions for me. I'm over here explaining
this topic so elegantly to you is
so crystal clear. And you still have
questions for me. I felt like I did
something wrong. But over time, I started
to understand that getting questions back is good. But there's a caveat. There's good questions and
then there's bad questions. Which one do you want
to hear about first? Bad questions, okay. Back questions are
typically the types of questions that you
can easily Google. They're pretty much
definition questions. Let's say we just got done
speaking about visualization. You gave a long
lecture on that and the student asks you,
what's visualization? This is an example
of a bad question. But every now and then,
depending on the scenario, it may be a good question. Some scenarios, a person is introduced to such a
brand new definition that they need to
be repeated a few times with the explanation
to understand it. But overall, just for
the general big picture, we'd like to think of easy to google questions
as bad questions. But good questions are hyper targeted questions that you
weren't even expecting. Imagine that you just gave this long lecture on
visualization skills. And then the students says, a teacher, I've been practicing visualization for the
past three weeks. But I notice anytime I tried to picture myself, I'm blurry. What gives and do you have any
strategies to help me out? This is a unique question
because this may have been something that you went through in the beginning
stages as well. But you forgot that you
faced this problem. By being asked such a
hyper targeted question, you're bringing awareness to
that faulty issue that you had and you realize that
you had this issue, this person had this issue. That means that this
can be something you add onto your curriculum
in the future. Then you can also
give a strategy. You could say something like, How about before you try to make yourself move in your mind, you try to have a picture
of yourself that you simply try to recall or
you can't even do that. How about you print a
large picture of yourself large enough where the
printed images head is roughly the size
of your real head. You stare at that 15 minutes
a day for three months. Over time, it will be much
easier to recall that image. And over time, it'll be much
easier to move that image. You are creating this
compelling strategy from a question that you
were asked by a student. You don't want to be
one of those people that scoff at questions. You want to embrace questions. You want to cultivate a
positive attitude regarding it, because it will
allow you to enhance your curriculum and unlock
your inner engineer.
8. Bonus Tip: The bonus tip is to practice. How exactly are you
going to practice? Let's say you've watched
this entire course and you don't even
have any students, how are you going to even be asked questions in
the first place? You create content. You can create content
through podcasts, YouTube videos, through
blogs, whatever. But you want to create
content of some sort. At first, it could be something
that's private as you're practicing and
creating your voice. But over time, I recommend
that you make it public. The reason you want
to make it public is because number one, you're practicing
explaining things. Number two, you're
attracting a tribe. And number three,
you're often going to be asked questions through DMs, through comments, and much more. The more that you
create content, the more debt you
start to understand where you stand on
certain issues, it becomes much easier to view explaining
things as a craft. No longer is it this blob
of an event that you do? Occasionally? It's something that
you do systematically. You do it similar to
brushing your teeth. If you start a Twitter account, make it the intention to tweet every single day,
just one tweet. Over time. The skillset
source, a compound. It starts to become deadly. Even Africa that starts to
happen is that you sort to cross combined
different fields under your teaching umbrella. And you're not that
boring teacher anymore. Instead, you're someone
who knows a lot, who can meet other
people where they are. Also, you can strategically
engage them in a compelling way
where you're fun. Not just explaining
things in a boring way. You're unpredictable,
is because you have been practicing
creating content. That's what content
is all about. It's about explaining things. It's not about doing stuff for likes, retweets, views, etc. It's about explaining
things in a compelling way that showcases your
creativity to the world. This bonus tip is
all about creating compelling content and
practicing the art of teaching.
9. Final Project: Now's the time for
the class project. I want you to create
a video about a topic that you know very well. This is a topic that
you have theoretical, along with practical
experience in. Your goal is to turn this topic
from complex, too simple. And you're speaking to me and others who knows nothing
about this topic. Teach it to me in a
way where I understand the basic fundamentals
and use simple delivery. Where every now and then
you're using examples, you're using analogies,
get creative with it. The goal is to make sure that I, the novice,
understand this field well enough to get
started in it. Once I am done interacting
with your video. Once you're done
with this video, I want you to post it in the class project
section right on below. I look forward to
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Arman Chowdhury, Confidence thru Communication
