As a teacher and coach who made a lateral move into teaching, I fully agree! Believe me, I am no educational expert. The experts just seem to complicate things. I have found, like many things in life, that keeping it simple brings about greater results.

Starting out with a career in sales prepared me more for teaching than any educational class or training that I have had. As a salesman I had to find my customers’ dominant buying motive (what is going to make them pull out their checkbook). As a teacher I have to find each student’s dominant learning motive (what is going to make a student want to focus and learn). Some of the same techniques that I have used to get my customers to buy I use to get my students to learn.

It does not take a masters or PhD in education to have high achievement in the classroom.