Logical steps!

It is not that complicated

In our latest research, we started from the observation that a small minority of teachers have all their students willingly doing their best work and self-regulating to avoid any disruptions.

We identified this phenomenon with the ‘teacherly authority’ principle whereby a ‘student’ agrees to pay full attention to their ‘teacher’ and wherever their teacher directs their attention when the ‘teacher’ has a capacity, which they want to provide in the best interest of the ‘student’, and which the student values highly.

The question we set out to answer then was what is this valuable capacity that the teacher is providing to their students that triggers this response.

The answer we found, unequivocally, was these teachers are providing psychological safety to their students.  Several people have also noted that post-covid students have a greater need than before.

We also found that most teachers believe that they are providing psychological safety to all their students all the time but that most students don’t experience this.

The final step in our research has been to uncover the mechanism by which psychological safety is provided and noting that this is not what most teachers are doing.

This mechanism is learnable, and thus teachable, and we already have exemplars who show how well it works.

Simple steps.

John Corrigan is an expert in helping individuals to bring their whole of mind to their daily life and increase their effectiveness and the effectiveness of those around them. This expertise scales from the individual to the team to the organisation.  At the core of this work is the concept and practice of providing psychological safety and unfeigned lover through operating from the Constructive Mutualist rather than the Behaviourist paradigm.  Earlier blogs can be found here.