Do you know if your student is a ROOT, TRUNK, BRANCH or LEAF?
When you know this, it will dramatically influence the way you teach each child in your classroom.
Everyone is unique and has an innate naturalness in which they receive and respond to their environment. We are at our most natural expression in life as an infant and toddler, if we have not been traumatized yet by any life conditions or experiences.
The older we get the more our naturalness is influenced by our life experiences, which will affect our beliefs about our life conditions and ourselves. These experiences begin to overshadow our naturalness and sometimes appear to completely hide “who we really are”.
The formative years and many hours of influence that you have as a teacher on each child you come in contact with, makes it imperative that you have as many tools as possible to have the most powerful influence for each child to feel recognized and supported to actualize their uniqueness.
First, you must know your Point of Power, so you know what is your natural way of receiving and sharing information with the students.
From this vantage point you can begin to explore and watch the responses from your students and begin to see how they most often respond or react to information.
Then the fun begins, by knowing your Point of Power, you will more clearly understand how you translate information in your life and then you will begin the adventure of how to use your Point of Power consciously to speak, present and share information with your students that will provide the most comprehensive options for their receiving the information, each in their own Point of Power.
As you play with this awareness you will begin to see how each child has their own way of perceiving and receiving their reality. Their questions and conversation will begin to alert you to their natural way of receiving and comprehending information.
Self Assessment Tool
Using this simple self-assessment tool, you can begin to discover what your Point of Power is and from this awareness begin to explore with your students their innate natural rhythm. Depending on their age, they too can use the self-assessment tool. The more you can have an open class discussion on this model, the more familiar they become with it and the less intimidated they are to be a LEAF, BRANCH, TRUNK OR ROOT because everyone knows what that really means. So much judgment can be minimized with this model.
When you have this additional insight into a students own way of learning, naturally, this will increase their ease of learning and in most cases will also increase their self confidence in learning as well in their every day life experiences.
To be seen, heard and recognized deeply is the greatest gift we can give one another in relating on every level of life.
The children/youth, from kindergarten to a senior in high school, love playing with this material and recognizing themselves and their uniqueness without having to feel “ashamed” because they are different than their peers, parents or teachers.
The stronger a child’s awareness is of their ability to learn the stronger their life foundation is. In today’s world of constant change, each child needs a strong foundation of self-trust they can rely on no matter how their environment shifts daily.
When you get the opportunity to recognize yourself and your innate wisdom and naturalness and then to facilitate and guide that in your students you devotion to teaching and sharing your gifts will increase in every area of your life, not just in the classroom with the students.
KNOWLEDGE LEARNED AND INNATE WISDOM IS TRUE POWER