What makes us successful in life is not necessarily what we know, but our capacity to respond positively when we do get lost,     or stuck or fed up on our learning journey. Our attitudes that we develop when we are young, will help or hinder us, as we   search  for the ‘treasures’ learning offers. The attitudes we model as adults impacts on the young learners with some force, positively or negatively. Our responsibly, as older learners, is to make sure we model what we want the young learners to do. I often ask teachers these questions:

 “When you stand up in front of your class do you model how to teach or do you model how to learn?”

“How many of your children will be teachers when they grow up?”

“How many of your children will be learners when they grow up?”

 Many teachers can share what they do to demonstrate good teaching but too many teachers find it a struggle to share what they do to demonstrate good learning due to the pressures of been told how to teach and what to teach. 

I would like all adults, not just teachers, to model a love of learning, to inspire children to want to find out more, to demonstrate what a motivated adult looks like when they are learning and to enable our young learners to be able to remove the barriers they come across on their journey. Lets make sure we practice what we preach.