The Power of Positive Communication in Teaching

Do you enjoy doing this? I saw

a tweet this morning from a person saying, "No,

I hate this. I hate doing this,

and I don't know if I should quit."

The fact that you sat down and tweeted that,

you have

branded that on your soul.

Your very spirit now has that very thing

attached to it, and you have no idea the

difficulty that you're gonna have to work beyond that.

When you

vocalize, okay, because in the tongue there's power,

okay? It's the power of giving life and taking life.

Life and death is in the power of your tongue.

I can say to you,

"You are one of my best students.

You are so good at what you've done.

You've done so well training and listening and following all the

rules."

And if I was to say that to you, you would feel empowered. "Oh, this

is awesome.

ICT said that about me and this is great.

I feel so good."

Or if I sat down with one of you and said, "Look at you.

You are a waste of a student. You've done nothing

correctly. You've literally wasted your time,

and you don't do anything

right.

It's all your fault, so be miserable.

Stay in that state of mind. I don't, I don't wanna waste my time on you."

Wow, nobody wants to hear that.

Nobody wants to hear that. I don't talk to my students like

that. What I do is I show them what they're

doing incorrectly,

so that way they can correct themselves.