Ever feel like your efforts in teaching or parenting hit a wall? Join us as we explore the nuanced dance between achievement and reception, two concepts that hold the key to unlocking success in learning and personal goals. This episode thrives on unraveling the subtle art of ‘reception’—the act of truly absorbing ideas and information, a skill that often plays second fiddle to the more celebrated 'achievement'. Whether it's the triumph of shedding those stubborn last pounds or the broader ambitions that drive our lives, we're peeling back the layers to find out what it really means to both achieve and receive.
Our exchange transcends theory, bringing you into the living, breathing world of practical application. We share stories, like the high schooler on the brink of earning his culinary certificate, and a six-year-old learning math through innovative 'dot' techniques, to illustrate the journey from the first steps of learning to the pinnacle of achievement. These narratives underscore the persistence needed in education and parenting, and celebrate the 'aha' moments that fuel our passion for teaching. For those seeking to cultivate environments where knowledge is as cherished as the milestones it creates, this conversation promises to enrich your approach and lessen the sting of frustration. Tune in and be inspired to nurture the seeds of understanding in those you guide.
Ever feel like your efforts in teaching or parenting hit a wall? Join us as we explore the nuanced dance between achievement and reception, two concepts that hold the key to unlocking success in learning and personal goals. This episode thrives on unraveling the subtle art of ‘reception’—the act of truly absorbing ideas and information, a skill that often plays second fiddle to the more celebrated 'achievement'. Whether it's the triumph of shedding those stubborn last pounds or the broader ambitions that drive our lives, we're peeling back the layers to find out what it really means to both achieve and receive.
Our exchange transcends theory, bringing you into the living, breathing world of practical application. We share stories, like the high schooler on the brink of earning his culinary certificate, and a six-year-old learning math through innovative 'dot' techniques, to illustrate the journey from the first steps of learning to the pinnacle of achievement. These narratives underscore the persistence needed in education and parenting, and celebrate the 'aha' moments that fuel our passion for teaching. For those seeking to cultivate environments where knowledge is as cherished as the milestones it creates, this conversation promises to enrich your approach and lessen the sting of frustration. Tune in and be inspired to nurture the seeds of understanding in those you guide.
Good afternoon everyone. Hope you're having a good Sunday today. Today we're going to talk about achievement and receive. Achievement and receive are the couple things that we're going to talk about today, and before I start, though, I just wanted to talk about I'm probably going to do some daily stuff for right now, until I get a lot of stuff. As many of you know, I'm new to this and trying to figure out all the little kinks and bugs and stuff and things that I need to change and and to make it a little bit better for you guys. But I really appreciate people following me and I hope that you will kind of spread the word. Alright, so let's talk about those two words I just said Achieve and receive. What do they mean? Achieve means to bring to success, to accomplish something. You on a diet and you want to lose five pounds and you lose it and you accomplish that. You achieved it. To receive is to take possession, to get the information, to take in an idea or some news. Those are the things that we need to do to receive If you give somebody a gift, they're receiving it when you are working with your child, and it doesn't matter if it's in school or after school or at home.
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If you're homeschooling, what do you think about? What do you want? Are you trying to achieve a goal? Are you just trying to have him receive the information? Those are some things to think about when you're trying to work with your child, and it will also help you not to feel so frustrated. What you're doing when you're working with your child at homeschool or after school is you want them just to receive the information. Don't stress or worry too much about achievement at the beginning or during the time.
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Some take kids take six to nine times to doing or hearing about something before they receive it. Others can take 900 times. For example, I'm working with a student. He's a high schooler and he is getting his culinary certificate. So I'm working on the test for him and we go over and over and we've been doing this for almost a year and he's getting really close to be able to take his test. He gets about 73%, but we're still working. We want to make it too close to 80% before he actually takes the test.
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Sometimes it just takes a long time for them to receive that information and then, once they receive it, then they can achieve it. I hope that kind of helps a little bit to help lower your frustration. All you have to do is just give that information. I used to tell teachers that young teachers just remember one thing Input, input, input, and then you're going to get output. You may not always see it. If you're a teacher and you're with your students, you may not see it. You may be that one person that starts put that three or four times and then when somebody else says another three or four times or 900 times, they finally get it. And you may not see it. But just remember input, input, input, and someday you're going to get output.
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Here's another example. I'm working with another student. He's a young kid, six years old, and I like dot math. I teach him how to count the dots. You know a full circle one time. You tap once, and then a little circle and a circle around it you tap twice, like that. Okay, so then once he got the rhythm of how to tap each one, then we start with adding zero through five. Then, once he got that and was on his own to be able to do it independently, then we did zero to nine and then when you get like six, seven, eight, nine, you have to do those taps twice on them. Then after that we kind of pulled away from it a little bit and then we start using a number line and so he can kind of see that. So when, after the number line, then we'll get into subtraction and so on and so on. So it just takes a lot of time. And I've been working with him since June and he now he can add, and he's doing pretty well with that. And then later I gave him some cubes to work with and put them together and make different patterns, and he wanted to make his own kind of little pattern, which is fine, that's great, let him use his imagination. But then I heard him say two yellow, three blue equals five, all on his own. So that input, input, input. I got some output from and it was very, very exciting. Okay, so I want to end this today. This is a short one, just a little short clip that I wanted to do with Sunday afternoon. I have my granddaughter at spring break, so I'm going to be doing some stuff with her today, but I wanted to do one short one today.
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Anyway, here's my little story. I was it was my first year teaching and I had wrote on the board the girls blank the ball. Now they had to find three mistakes. One, there was no capital letter. Two, there was no a punctuation at the end and they had to decide it was a kick or kicks. So again, the girls blank the ball was the question.
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So one little boy, jorge, weighs just a little hand, he was the first grader, I think and he says I know the first mistake. And I said okay, jorge, what is it? He says it's the boys kick the ball. He said all right, girls can kick the ball too. So anyway, it gave me a good little chuckle and I thought I'd share that little story with you. I have several different stories, but I bring different stuff and I may say some of them again. Again, if you need to contact me or you need to some more information, you'd like me to research something or you just want to make a comment, my email is gdebradebra055 at gmailcom. Have a blessed day and I'll talk to you again soon.