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Did you know that how you teach is just as (if not more) important as what you teach?

Why?

Behind and alongside the conceptual information we teach, a large body of non-verbal information is being exchanged. This information can be talked about in various ways scientifically:

Emotional Contagion

Unconsciously mimicking the facial expressions, vocal expressions, postures, and instrumental behaviors of those around us, and thereby “catching” others’ emotions as a consequence of such facial, vocal, and postural feedback.

Mirror Neurons

A small circuit of cells in the premotor cortex and inferior parietal cortex which are activated both when we perform a certain action and when we observe someone else performing that same action. In other words, they collapse the distinction between seeing and doing

This means that how you actually are (your internal experience) and feel will be mirrored in palpable changes in the tone, energy and behavior of the classroom. Our organisms are in fact deeply connected and related to one another. We are sensitive, feeling, relational creatures. And youth/children are even more so!

When you are grounded, relaxed, present and embodied, a roomful of children or adolescents will feel this and, in one way or another, respond to it!

Jenny Ebermann

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