What I Learned from Teaching
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009What I thought going in:
When first learning that I would be teaching a Social Media class in Blue Springs, I was very excited. I immediately began thinking and creating scenarios in my head, which extinguished my excitement. What if I bombed? What if these people don’t learn anything? Then I thought, this is going to be a great “learning” experience. Funny how the teacher always becomes the student.
- excitement
- fear of failure
- approach as a learning experience
What I learned along the way:
I quickly learned that I do in fact know quite a bit about the subject at hand. Often times I doubt my own knowledge because I spend most of my time with people “like me” that know and use social media tools early and often. I love the relationships that come from a teaching/learning environment because it really gives me sense of purpose.
What I am going to do moving forward:
I absolutely had a blast! I can not wait to seek out more opportunities to not only teach more social media classes, but to find more learning opportunities in the things I am interested in. I felt like it took me slightly out of my comfort zone and I was able to adapt and learn new things and meet new people.
I think that one always learns more while teaching. It was certainly proved in my case.
Have you ever taught a class? If so, what did you teach and more importantly what did you learn?