Sep
24
Going Beyond Yourself in OPYOW
Filed Under Educators Fitness Info
Operation Pull Your Own Weight PLUS!
I’ve had some people ask, “What happens to a participant who has not only learned to do pull ups, but who has also mastered the life lessons that are built into Operation Pull Your Own Weight? Where’s the incentive, the motivation to stay interested and involved for that child?
The answer to that question is Operation Pull Your Own Weight PLUS. OPYOWP is tailor made for the graduate who would enjoy teaching others what they’ve learned from participating in OPYOW. On the initial level, there’s already a high degree of satisfaction and confidence built into the basic OPYOW experience. And of course, all participants can continue working to improve on their own performance levels.
Going Beyond Yourself
But when one child is teaching another child how to immunize themselves against obesity for a lifetime without pills, shots, or special diets it moves the teacher well beyond himself or herself. In other words when you can successfully explain the details of anything to someone else, even of both participants are children, your understanding of that subject grows deeper every time you light another fire. OPYOW is no exception to the rule. Not only that, but being able to instruct another person in something important like this, increases any teacher’s self-confidence significantly…including very young teachers.
Parents Gained Self Confidence
Actually, at Jefferson School we were working with an at-risk population and we recruited parents to come in and teach the kids to do their pull-ups. Now many of these parents initially lacked confidence in themselves. But if they stuck with the program as they’d promised to do, and showed up a couple times a week, on time (they didn’t want to disappoint the kids), these parents developed a sense of confidence that was lacking before they began working with the kids. In other words, they discovered their own ability to do something important (teach others), and they were recognized publicly for their efforts. Occasionally some of these parents were recognized in the local newspaper.
Real Teaching is a Fulfilling Experience
Teaching in the best sense, is a very fulfilling experience. That is to say, when you have one person who understands a subject well enough to explain it to another person who is dying to learn that subject, the transfer of knowledge from one person to the other is extremely fulfilling for both teacher and student. And Operation Pull Your Own Weight Plus fills that void, as it creates more potential teachers, all at the same time. So in answer to the question how do you keep kids involved after they’ve learned to do pull-ups, we just said…OPYOW Plus. Teach others what you’ve learned.
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