How is it possible that in so many tutor’s experiences a student claims to forget everything they have learned as soon as they leave the teaching room? Neil shares his theories on this puzzling phenomena of instantly vanishing memory.   

KEY THEORIES

• Maybe the lesson hasn’t been embedded properly by the tutor.  
• The student may be resistant to learning for their own reasons.
• There could be a conflict in the student’s beliefs and how they visualise themselves. 
• Your teaching room and yourself have secret magical powers that imbue the student with knowledge which is then mystically removed when they leave. 

BEST MOMENTS

‘It’s possible that I've not made the ideas stick enough, that I haven’t put it in a form that is inescapable for them.’ 

‘Students frequently tell you that they understand something when they don’t because they don’t want to look stupid. We need always to make them feel safe and know that if they don’t understand something it’s not because they’re stupid, it’s because they don’t understand it yet.’

‘When they go home they start to argue with themselves about what they did and begin to dismiss it.’

‘The language used will massively affect the perception of the experience that’s being coded and understood via that language.’ 

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ABOUT THE HOST

Neil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years’ experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil’s invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS!

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