Mamane as a student

The most important thing I've learned as a student is that, yes, I am capable of teaching. The skills I've learned at NTI have taken out a lot of the guess work in daily instruction. It's one thing to "know" your content, but it's totally different being able to "teach" that content. Being a student has enabled me to better deliver that content to my students. It has created a little empathy, in that I, too, am on the other side of the teacher's desk receiving information. I have to keep in mind that students learn differently, I need to differentiate instruction, I have to give poker chips, and the list goes on. In a nutshell, you could say that being a student de-mystifies teaching... a little.