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Teacher's Magic Wand -The Navigation Map
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Teacher's Magic Wand -The Navigation Map
03 December 2016
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POST 277 December
03-10, 2016
JUST A FEW WORDS
TEACHER’S MAGIC WAND
from
g.m phan hoang
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Do you know how to check a good program of training?
Educating,
training Black-Belts and Teachers is a crucial mission for any school of
martial art or body-mind practice which want to be serious. To help black-belts
the Viet-Chi Teachers’ School publishes its MONTHLY LETTER and in
the issue of November-December 2016 there is a very interesting question
about how to build THE NAVIGATION MAP, in other words How to check a good program of training as it follows
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Should you like to join them, the
email address read:
vietchiteachersschool@gmail.com
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SU-DAO MONTHLY
2016 November-December
Part One
2016 November-December
Part One
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TEACHER’S MAGIC WAND: The Navigation Map
G.M
PHAN HOANG
VISITING TOKYO
Let’s
imagine the following scenario.
Peter
desired to explore for the first time, during three days, a large and famous
city, say Tokyo. So he was really in
need of a good professional guide.
The first
guy he met, Mr. Nice, was a gentle and confident guide who said:
‘I know very well Tokyo with me you
will be very satisfied. I will show you many good places, museums, palaces,
temples, markets, and whatsoever you want. Just follow me.’
The second guy, Mr. Sure,
was polite and confident. He said:
‘I was born in Tokyo and have been doing my job
for ten years.’ Upon this
introduction, Mr Sure handed a map of Tokyo to Peter, and continued. ‘Tokyo has many interesting sites to visit,
but we cannot do all that in three days. However, for three days I have
prepared 8 different plans for visitors to choose in a way that no matter which
plan is finally chosen, the ‘outcome’, I mean the balance of knowledge and the level
of satisfaction will be equal and optimized.’
Peter, a seasoned
engineer, examined the proposed 8 plans then quickly discovered that Mr. Sure
had utilized the ‘Magic Square’ to build his 8 attracting plans. Without
hesitation he followed the competent Mr. Sure, although he recognized that Mr.
Nice was really a nice person but he did his job in a way like thirty years
ago.
TEACHER’S MAGIC WAND
Today teaching is no
longer just transferring what the teacher knows, as it was 50 or 30 years ago.
Today how could a good
teacher adapt his teaching to a variety of audiences with very diverse
expectations and conditions? In one club the students are mostly young, in
another club most people are over 45, and in another club students are all
different in age and in expectations. Building appropriate program and teaching
style to such group requires exceptional talent. However good teachers know how
to do it thanks to their magic wand which is the following mysterious phrase, a
kind of ‘mantra’ to be known by heart:
“THAN
THU BO CUOC Y KHI NHAN PHAP DAO”
What is that exactly?
This is a guide-phrase giving you the 9 components that good teachers should
know in order to build up different teaching programs and styles for diverse
groups. Also this is a guideline for students to focus their efforts to their
preferred learning while keeping the balance of the whole system. All
components could be learned, but each with different preference or attention.
MEANING
1.THAN Moving techniques, mobilization
strategy
2.THU Hand techniques, natural force training
3.BO Stance and posture techniques, tactic
posture
4.CUOC Leg techniques, skill
training
5.Y Meaning, thinking, symbols, expression
6. KHI Energy, power, character, attitude
7. NHAN Eyes, observation, vision training, precision
8.PHAP Method, speed and correct
execution, application
9.DAO Right way, presence, teaching
capacity,
Black-Belts and
Teachers must learn by heart this “mantra
of 9 components”, as we have learned the tables of multiplication. You will
see how it could be very helpful in various occasions, especially in checking
knowledge, evaluation performance, organizing your teaching, building various
programs, and so on. Here are some simplified examples to illustrate the point.
-Willing to assess the global knowledge of a pretending BB you did not
know, you could politely find a way to ask him about various aspects of his
practice. Consequently you can detect how many components are missing in his
practice, and you can better help him.
-Willing to know how deep and how balanced is the knowledge of this BB in
order to write a report on his subject, you can use a scale of zero to 9 and
apply it to each component. You will see how your report is by far much valuable
and useful than the ‘traditional report’ which just tells some impressions but
doesn’t cover all aspects and lacks the rigor of quantitative measurement.
- In another occasion you have a limited time (e.g. 45 hours) to train a
specific group (e.g. border guards) to reach a specific outcome, you can
attribute value –from zero to 9- to each component according to the aim of the
mission and consequently design an optimum program. For another program with
only 15 hours and the participants are business people you just have to change
the attributed value of each component and quickly get a new program.
In the case of 15
hours or 45 hours training you can utilize a magic square, to set up your various programs, similarly to what
Mr. Sure had done in our story above.
MAGIC SQUARE
I believe that most of
you can remember the notion of magic square. A magic square is an
arrangement of numbers in a square in such a way that the sum of each row,
column, and diagonal is one constant number, the so-called "magic constant."
THE ORIGINAL
NAVIGATION MAP OF 9 COMPONENTS
2
THU
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7
NHAN
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6
KHI
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9
DAO
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5
Y
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1
THAN
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4
CUOC
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3
BO
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8
PHAP
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In this
example you will notice that the component ‘THAN/Moving techniques’ has the
lowest value (1 hour of training) while the component ‘DAO/Way, teaching
capacity’ scores the highest value (9 hours of training). Of course, you can
change that by moving the concerned component to another case.
Observing this ‘navigation map’ you will discover
that, for a total of 15 hours, you will have 8 choices of programs: 3 choices
by row, 3 choices by column, and 2 choices by diagonal. And you will need 45
hours if you want to cover all the nine components; still you will have large
choices to establish the order for which different components will follow one
after another.
Without this NAVIGATION MAP you risk to get lost in
your choices. The worse thing is probably you will not realize that you are
lost in the maze of your teaching (or learning) and you continue to believe
that you are a good teacher, like Mr. Nice in our story who did not realize
that he was out of date.
YOUR
ORGANIZED NAVIGATION MAP OF 9 COMPONENTS
Now let’s
take a practical application: Building
the Navigation Map of your Club.
Fist
important thing is to organize a meeting of all students and teachers of
your group for this purpose.
After
enthusiastic and free discussions suppose your group arrived at the following
consensus:
THAN Moving techniques, mobilization
strategy 3
THU Hand techniques, natural force training 9
BO Stance and posture techniques, tactic
posture 4
CUOC Leg techniques, skill
training 8
Y Meaning, thinking, symbols, expression 2 (learner can get documents
from Learning Letter)
KHI Energy, power, character, attitude 7
NHAN Eyes, observation, vision training, precision 1 (individual training)
PHAP Method, speed and correct
execution, ion 6
DAO Right way, presence, teaching
apprentices 5
In the end the
Navigation Map of your group will be likely the following. Keep in mind that at any time you can modify it.
2
Y
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7
KHI
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6
PHAP
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9
THU
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5
DAO
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1
NHAN
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4
BO
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3
THAN
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8
CUOC
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APPENDIX. NINE COMPONENT EVALUATION TABLE
Name of the candidate……………………… Name of evaluator ……………………
1 THAN
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0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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2 THU
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0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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3 BO
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0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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4 CUOC
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0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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5 Y
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0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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6 KHI
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0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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7 NHAN
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0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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8 PHAP
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0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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9 DAO
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0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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