Developing Hair Education

As an educator with relatively little experience in formal classroom settings, Chapter 2 of Brookfield's "The Skillful Teacher" was both encouraging and somewhat relieving. All assumptions give more weight to teaching from an intuitive angle, which thus far has been my strength. As an experienced hairstylist I have developed an adept ability to efficiently process  information from even the most subtle modes of human communication.  This acquired skill will help tremendously specifically with Assumption # 3: Teachers Need a Constant Awareness of How Students Are Experiencing Their Learning and Perceiving Teachers’ Actions. Like working behind the chair, my students are technically my clients. I  can't  do my best work unless I am able to diagnose their level of comprehension and level of  satisfaction with the material presented. My experience has also trained me to overcome fear of criticism; rather than taking it personally, I hav...

Before becoming hairstylist I completed a bachelors degree in French and English, with the intent of becoming a high school teacher. In fact, I even began my training as a hairstylist in French in order to facilitate the acquisition of my post secondary second language. Forever passionate about education, I have spent the last 14 years in my industry learning, perfecting and now educating. None of it has come easily. I have been forced to learn every technique through repetition, success, failure, critical evaluation and more repetition. With this experience however, I am able to offer my students a deeply personal knowledge of the subject matter. One of the strongest truths that I have learned through my own professional development is that failure, although painful and discouraging, is when true learning takes place. Success feels great and is necessary for developing self confidence but it requires less analysis. Failure is so frustrating that I will generally do anything in the...