One of the most important and difficult jobs in the world is being an educator. Whether you are teaching math, training physical education, coaching for fitness goals, a health guide or a dance mentor, this is for you. Firstly, cheers! You are doing an amazing job.
Teaching involves sharing of your knowledge on a particular subject to help a person grow in their life. It’s a noble job as here in you are responsible to mend someone’s life. For the fitness and mental coaches you are super heroes as with your expertise you actually give a way towards people’s life & lifestyle.
There are many names for a teacher – an educators, mentors, instructors, and sometimes they act like parents. They are key personals influencing lives inside and outside classroom. Teachers are inspirations and we all have that one favorite teacher whom we look up-to and who impacted your life to a greater extent. Enriching lives with their hard work & knowledge needs much appreciation. So if you are a teacher reading this, be proud of yourself!
“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” –Solomon Ortiz
Often it is seen that fitness trainers and coaches confuse their jobs, bottom-line is that you are an educator. You are helping people understand the importance of owns-elf, prioritize health and thereby growing their life-span. In Indian tradition “teachers” are next to god, the Guru is to be respected and honored for his noble contribution to the society & people.
Ved Vyas is regarded as the Guru of Gurus and the festival of Guru Purnima is dedicated to him. Parshurama is considered as the sixth avatar of Lord Vishnu and served as a mentor to Bhishma Pitamah and Dronacharya. He taught the art of warfare to Karna the friend of Duryodhana and the eldest son of Kunti. Dronacharya is probably the most popular mythological teacher. The Indian government even confers the Dronacharya Award on outstanding coaches in sports and games. Dronacharya was the ‘guru’ of Pandavas and Kauravas.
There are many such examples of gurus wherein we see our history was impacted to a larger extent. Gurus are highest form of knowledge and learning, they are to be obeyed and worshiped.
But, even you as a teacher, mentor or guru need a checklist to self-evaluate your potential or skills. Here are some checklist for you, self-rate out of 10 :
- Are you passionate about your domain? if yes give a tick. /10
- How much do you trust yourself when you deliver your service ? /10
- How much you practice to deliver? /10
- How much you work on the personal presentation? /10
- Rate your communication skills? /10
- How much empathetic you are kindness? /10
- Have you ever thought about under promising and over delivering? /10
- Do you believe in going extra miles ? /10
- How good you are deal with problems? /10
- Rate yourself on your marketing & sales strategy? /10
- What you think leadership is about ?
