How to Coach Yourself and Others Essential Knowledge For Coaching | Page 225

There are various ways of doing it.
In my first German lesson, a young teacher recited a poem
to us in German: it sounded great, but we couldn't
understand a word of it, of course. He didn't really need to
do it, because we already knew we didn't know any of it
apart from a couple of phrases picked up from war films.
He was trying to show what we might aspire to, and went
on to explain that. (It must have made an impact because I
can remember the lesson fifty years later.)
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You can ask a student (usually either one who is a bit
full of himself and needs to be "taken down a peg", or
one who is mature enough not to be humiliated) to do
something practical in the certainty that he will fail.
Only do this if you are confident that when you do it, as
you will be challenged to, you can manage it yourself.

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You can pose a problem which has a seemingly simple
answer (political, economic, legal—or in Neighbour's
case, medical), and then show the problems in reaching
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