teaching excellence
the definitive guide to nlp
for teaching and learning
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R i c h a r d B a n d l e r
K at e B e n s o n
ISBN 978-0-9987167-2-5
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Please note that all information in this book is provided for educational purposesonly and should not be construed as, nor replace medical or psychiatric advice. If you wish to use Teaching Excellence in the teaching of others you are required to undergo the appropriate training. See www.teachingexcellencebook.com for details
For our children, Elizabeth, Jay, Keir and Tom
and for all the children who teach us so much
about love and learning
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface:A Revolutionary New Educational Technology
Introduction
The Challenge of Education Today
The Solution to Successful Teaching
The Educational Model of NLP
How the Brain Learns
How to be a Highly Effective Teacher
How To Use This Book
Part 1 The Building Blocks Of NLP Applied To Learning
Chapter 1 How Learning Works
Discover the fundamentals of NLP which underpin learning strategies
Learn the basics of NLP used in teaching
Explore the tools for Thinking on Purpose
Learning on Purpose – the secrets of how learning works
Chapter 2 Building Strategies
How to drive learning with good feelings
A step-by-step guide to Learning Strategies
The secrets of building motivation and propulsion for learning
The benefits of Assessment FOR not OF Learning
Part 2 Strategies For Learning
Chapter 3 How To Teach Anyone To Spell
Learn the secrets of how to spell well
Discover the steps to teaching spelling from scratch
Identify the steps to improve poor spelling
Make spelling great for the whole class
Chapter 4 How To Teach Anyone To Read –The Mechanics And Beyond
Discover how to create pleasure in reading
Identify the strategies to master the mechanics of reading
Explore the difference between learning to read and reading to learn
Learn the strategies for reading for meaning and reading quickly
Chapter 5 Memory Strategies
How to build a great memory
Remembering names
Remembering lists and facts
Making remembering fun and rewarding
Chapter 6 How To Teach Anyone To Calculate: Strategies For Mathematics
Developing your ‘Mathematical Mind’
Counting and Skip Counting
Attractive Addition
Sublime Subtraction
Chapter 7 Mathematical Magic
Mastering Multiplication
Fast and effective Division
Geometry made easy
Engineering successful strategies
Chapter 8 How To Nurture Creativity And Talent
Strategies for Music
Strategies for Art
Strategies for Creative Writing
Part 3 Highly Effective Classroom Teaching
Chapter 9 What Makes A highly Effective Teacher?
Discover the core beliefs that highly effective teachers hold true
Translate these beliefs into effective behaviours in the classroom
Develop the 7 habits of Highly Effective Teachers
Chapter 10 The Mind Of A Highly Effective Teacher - The Art Of The State
Choose success ahead of time
Be ready for any challenge
Control the variables in the class
Drive your own neurology
Optimise your pleasure in teaching
Chapter 11 Winning Your Class Over
Discover the secret of super-fast rapport
Create powerful learning states with your students
Control the variables in the classroom
Learn how to anchor great learning states
Chain states together to lead students into resourceful learning states
Chapter 12 Building An effective Learning Environment
The success focus attitude
The keys to engagement and motivation in the classroom
Building exciting learning outcomes
Removing barriers to success
Chapter 13 Keeping The Lesson On Track
Spinning the prayer wheel
Building Confidence with Competence
How to praise effectively
Giving feedback for great results
Chaprter 14 Ending With New Beginnings
Creating the desire for more learning
Taking the learning beyond the classroom
Stretch and Challenge through questioning
Storytelling and Nesting learning
Part 4 Troubleshooting and Challenge
Chapter 15 Changing Unhelpful Beliefs And Attitudes
Learn how to shrink a BIG problem down to size
Discover what is really being said
Use effective questions for change
Chapter 16 Timelines And Other Techniques For Motivation And Success
Timelines in the classroom – preparing for exams
Bringing success into the present
Spinning bad feelings into good feelings
From stuck to motivated with a Visual Squash
Swish for a change
Visual Squash for a whole class
Chapter 17 Strategies For Learning Difference
Learning difference not difficulty
Working with ADHD, Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, Autism and OCD
How to teach to the symptom not the syndrome
Explore neurological diversity
Part 5 NLP Fun in Schools
Chapter 18 Early Years: Under 5-Years-Old
Changing submodalities to overcome anxiety and create happy states
Small changes in language create a big impact on an under 5
Language patterns with children with little English language
How to use music for state management
Creative use of spatial anchoring
in the classroom
Chapter 19 Primary And Elementary School,5 To 11-Year-Olds
Subject-specific teaching strategies
Whole-class Spelling strategy
Spelling success in the Netherlands
Spreading the strategy across the school
Comfort and fun to improve reading
Eye accessing study of different reading strategies
Creativity and confidence in French language teaching
Creative use of NLP for creative writing
Chapter 20 Primary And Elementary School,5-11-Year-Olds
Creating positive learning states and overcoming challenges
Milton Language patterns with a hearing impaired learner
Creating happiness and harmony for a child with multiple challenges
Working with a child displaying severe anxiety
Simple language changes for big impact
Spatial classroom anchors for quiet attention.
Readiness to learn – metaphors and stories
Chapter 21 Secondary And High School 11-To-15 Year Olds
Creating enthusiasm for French grammar
Moving from a child who does not write to a writing enthusiast.
It’s good to talk in Science teaching
State and language to build confidence in outdoor pursuits
Revision and recall in Science
Voice tone and body language in Food Technology
Chapter 22 Post-Compulsory Education,16 Years And Over
Preparation for success
Memory strategy research
States for Learning Excellence, observation and Leadership for undergraduates
Academic coaching and mentoring
Chapter 23 Education Management
Challenging self-limiting beliefs in school
Disseminating NLP across the whole school
Supporting change in a school in Special Measures
Conclusion
Appendix A: Submodality Checklist
Appendix B: Questions To Calibrate Eye-Accessing Cues
Appendix C: The Meta Model And Blooms Taxonomy
Appendix D: Transcript To Use With Students
Appendix E: Glossary Of Terms
Bibliography
Index
The Authors
Testimonials
Acknowledgements
Our great appreciation goes to those teachers and students whose work contributed to this book. Whether your case studies made it into the final manuscript or not, we admire your enthusiasm for taking NLP into your classrooms. You are the ones who change lives, educate the next generation and install hope in the future. Our very warm thanks go to the many people who helped to bring this book to publication. In particular, Kay Cooke for her unswerving enthusiasm and practical support in the early drafts, Paul Boross for his pragmatic advice and Owen Fitzpatrick for his knowledge and valuable suggestions in the final stages of writing.
Our thanks go to Hugh Street, Julie Olsson and Joost van de Leij and the Meta Education team for supporting and promoting NLP Teaching Excellence training for teachers across the world.
A particular mention must go to our copy editor Jane Pikett. Thank you for believing in this book, and for your thorough approach and good humour throughout.
teaching excellence
The definitive guide to NLP for Teaching and Learning
preface
We live in a time of unprecedented opportunity. More children have access to more teaching and learning than ever before in history. New advancements in technology are placing a vast world of information at the touch of a button, the click of a mouse. The Neuro-Sciences are providing more and more information about how we learn and how we remember. The challenges facing teachers every day are greater than they have ever been. Curriculum changes, the expectations of parents, more and more administration. All this combined with the growing competition of social media leaves teachers with less time for delivery. We believe it is a wonder that people still enter the teaching profession. Yet it is for most of them, not just a job, but a mission. A mission to spread enthusiasm and joy for learning. The sense of achievement helping those hard to reach students to learn more.
just imagine
You could radically transform how quickly and easily your students could learn.
just imagine
You were equipped with the tools to entertain and captivate the attention of your students, so they were able to reach a greater potential.
just imagine
You had the secret of teaching excellence!
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a set of skills, behaviours, and beliefs which enable people to think in much the same way as a successful expert thinks. Whether it is spelling, basketball, art, music or maths, NLP finds the structure and teaches it to those already so gifted.
NLP was created by Dr. Richard Bandler and Dr. John Grinder in the 1970s, to study excellence, and replicate it. In the field of Education, NLP furnishes the teacher, or parent, with a way to change how a student learns. NLP can create a paradigm shift in every learner, in every classroom, in every school, in every college. Our action-based research, published in the Durham Report, as well as other project reports, demonstrates stunning results.
THE UNIQUENESS OF THIS BOOK is that it does what no other book can. This book gets right into the heart of how learning works with the collaboration of Dr. Richard Bandler and the Director of Education for the Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™ , Kate Benson. This collaboration of two people with such a deep and abiding passion for learning is the result of decades of relentless work.
Dr. Richard Bandler has spent the last 45 years developing elegant and swift ways to help people to think on purpose. To think more successfully, in a special way for each task. To motivate, decide and remember in new ways that make life easier and more effective.
Kate Benson has taught thousands of teachers to utilise NLP in teaching and learning to create happy and successful learners.
This book provides precise guidance that will enable every teacher to teach effectively to learners of every age, in every context. Whether you are new to teaching or very experienced, you can systematically improve your skills using the powerful technology of NLP. Those who train teachers will find strategies to train teachers. Ensuring the next generation of teachers gain the attitude, skills and behaviours that go into making great teachers great. So their students become tenacious learners.
This book shows you how to design and teach for learning, from memorising facts to magical mathematics, effective spelling, reading, creative writing, and so much more.
To survive and thrive in this world, learning itself is an essential skill set. Everything is changing faster than ever before. Learning to learn thus becomes, itself, a skill set. With this book everybody can become a more effective learner, and teach others along the way.
This book was written for you the teacher. We are very certain, since you are reading this book, you want to be the best teacher you can be. This book is designed to inspire and provide a step-by-step approach to mastering the art and science of learning. By the end of this book you will have the secrets of how to captivate your students and create exquisite learning effortlessly. Our mission is to share with you an exciting set of tools that can transform the impact you have in your classroom.
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introduction
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“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
The children couldn’t believe their ears. Here was a teacher telling them to cheat! When people hear the word ‘cheat’ they are shocked. We are taught from an early age that cheating is wrong, and indeed it is. But this teacher was not talking about cheating the way we normally understand the term. He was talking about using your mind in a way that you ne
ver did before. The teacher (Richard Bandler) was talking about organising and driving your brain so that it helps you to spell consistently, speak fluently, calculate effectively, read efficiently, remember consistently and learn easily. When learners are taught the quick and easy steps to learning it does seem that they have an unfair advantage, unless or until of course all children are taught the same processes. So some people may think this is cheating, while learners today might use the term ‘learning hacks’. We prefer the terms learning on purpose and thinking on purpose
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