The three learning behaviours that I have observed in the last 20 years.

The three learning behaviours that I have observed in the last nearly 20 years.

I’ve worked with thousands of children and this is totally my opinion. One that you 100% do not need to agree with. You can of course have your own opinion about this!

There is a pattern that I see in children that I teach. I see three learning behaviours in the children that I teach.

Keep in mind that I’ve taught across London in Private Schools, State schools and academies. I now teach children privately as a teacher for my own company and I work exclusively on a 1:1 basis with children from the ages of 17 months all the way to the age of 11. This blog refers to children of all ages.

I am referring to children who do not have diagnosed learning difficulties in this blog.

Here are the three learning behaviours that I see on a daily basis and that I have encountered working in schools across London.  

1.        Enthusiastic and mot ivated learners.  

2.        Hard to engage learners.  

3.        Those who do not have the desire to want to learn.

Enthusiastic and motivated learners are obviously the easiest to teach. They want to be in the lessons with me. They are hungry to learn and they want more, more, more. A dream to teach.

Hard to engage learners are the children that I need to work harder to maintain their focus and attention. They are the children who kind of want to learn but haven’t quite made up their mind about it. Perhaps they’d rather be outside playing with their friends or perhaps they’d just rather do something else, but they do on occasion try their best and on occasion choose not to.

Learners who do not have the desire to want to learn are obviously the hardest to teach initially. They  just don’t want to be there. They do not find what I have to teach very interesting. They would prefer to do anything but be there with me. Children who do not have the desire to want to learn will often cry as a way to not have to do what I have asked them to do or they simply will steer the conversation in a different direction to avoid having to actually do much of what I had planned to do with them.

I have a very strong ability of supporting all of my students to become enthusiastic and motivated regardless of which learning behaviour they demonstrate when they start working with me.

You see to me it isn’t a problem that they are hard to engage and for me it isn’t a problem if they don’t have the desire to want to learn (initially). I take full responsibility as their teacher to support them to become students who truly love learning and who truly want to learn. I will be the one to support them to become enthusiastic and truly passionate about their learning, with the full support of their parents of course.

With the correct support from my clients, with their full belief in my process and with their trust, most often than not I am successful.

That is what I do.

That is what we do here at CMT.