There are some „twitterers“ whose tweets I particularly enjoy reading. They are great fun and I often learn something interesting.
I particularly like the “tweets” by Stefan Hagen. He is a project manager, entrepreneur, counsellor… and teacher. For instance, last Saturday, he “twittered”:
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(Another day of #exercises at #FHV. #PMOT But the students are very motivated – I like that.)
Along with Stefan, I delight in the motivated students in his seminars and workshops. And I suspect one reason for their motivation is his way of teaching seminars.
I have not always enjoyed learning. In particular, I was disappointed with my experience at university. My expectations had probably been too high. After some quite enjoyable moments during the last years before graduating from Jacob Fugger Gymnasium at Augsburg, my disappointment during the first semester at Munich Technical University (I started in the fall of 1969) was great.
The lectures were just anonymous mass presentations. Individual counselling hardly took place at all. Besides, there were not many opportunities to, for instance, practice programming. Consequently, I learned my mathematics from books and my computer science at Siemens.
But what would you have to do in order to make young people enjoy learning?
I believe it is quite simple. A learner has to discover that learning will bring him advance. Learning is a chance towards success. In order to achieve this, the teachers should not just present dry material without any inner passion.
However, they should not just explain the what, either. Instead, good teachers should also tell you how and why. How can you do it? Why is this the best way?
The learner must understand that what he learns will be useful to him and what he can achieve with the newly gained competence. He must see how much he can discover and how he personally can advance through the experience. And how knowledge helps you to unfold life in various dimensions.
If the learner manages this authentically and based on sincere experience, there is no reason why “joy of learning” should not automatically follow.
Now that sounds easy, doesn’t it?
Luckily, I also knew this sort of teacher in my life. And I wish for Stefan that his success as a teacher and coach will continue!
RMD
(Translated by EG)
P.S.
Among other things, Stefan Hagen is also the author of PM-Blog. It is probably the most-read German language blog for project management.
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