Teaching is learning

My grandmother used to say: "When I stop learning, I may as well be dead." She continued to learn until she went into a nursing home at 100yrs of age! I hope I can learn so long! To some extent I've been teaching folks for most of my adult life. Many years ago, in nursing school, I learned techniques by the "see one, do one, teach one" method. As a nurse, I did patient & family education but also peer education. When I started teaching labs as a TA 20 years later, I learned so much by teaching it surprised me! It was a surprise to me that I enjoyed being a TA and was very effective at it. Many of my classes are prereqs for health care programs and its helpful that I can apply real life experiences to the concepts and processes.

The two biggest bonuses to teaching, for me, are continuing to learn & seeing their eyes light up when they can use information in a different way than I've presented it.