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Jun30
Teach Others While You are Still Learning and You Retain More


Whenever I’m simply surfing for fresh ideas and wisdom… want to read good writing from a leader I trust, I tend to hit on
Tom Vander Well’s blog at QA QnA. Why…? Tom teaches at the same time he is learning from an experience such as calling his wife at work… and you sense the vibrancy of wisdom and wit in every one of his blogs. Tom also happens to be an experienced leader and good writer… but I wondered if he knew the research on what he’s done to his brain through this pattern

Did you know that Tom and other model leaders, actually retain 90 percent of what you learn... because they teach others at the same time as they are learning new ideas themselves? This chart below… from  National Training Institute … 1999 says it better than I do.
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You go Tom!


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Is that why my head hurts? :)

Thanks, Ellen!

I really enjoyed Tom's blog, thanks for sharing. My sister, Dorothy, was sharing with me her perspectives on Plato's Seventh Book of the Republic, The Cave. She felt that as we gain knowledge, we have an obligation to share that knowledge with others. As we fulfill an obligation to share knowledge, we are rewarded with ... greater knowledge. What a wonderful thought.

What I find disturbing about this graphic is that our schools systems seem to rely heavily on the least effective learning methods!

Warren, I had never made that connection about the reward, and it makes me think I need to read Plato's Cave again -- that is another way of saying what this neuro-research shows. It seems to me that we also gain more when we teach others in ways that they teach us at the same time too. Would you agree. Thanks for the insight... and do thank Dorothy too.

Ann, I was reading today about a new Internet site where teachers can now sell their lessons and lectures. My comment -- "student should be the ones who stick a price on these..." I have written books on what it would take for secondary and college changes, based on working more with human brains... and fortunately because of thinkers who are saying it like you do -- things are changing slowing. Would you agree?

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