Teachings,+Researching+Skills

=Researching Skills= (By sam)(ael) (Return to Teachings) When you are researching a skill it is very important to do it right so that you understand the skill very well and can teach it so that others will be able to learn much of what you have. Provided below are some steps and instructions on how to research the topics you will be teaching on.

__**Get Books**__: Books are an excellent source of knowlege. Get books on your topic and browse them, read them, then take notes on them.

__**Get an expert opinion**__: It is important to get to someone you can talk to who knows what they are talking about. Books are not always correct, or sometimes they are hard to understand so an expert can teach you a lot especially if you have some questions prepared for them. They can also give you a good overview and a general idea of how it all works out.

__**Decide what is being conveyed**__: It is important to narrow down what information is being taught. What is the goal of this teaching? What are students supposed to get out of this. Once you have done this you can arrange your facts and set up a basic skeleton of the presentation. (You should always have a moral to the story)

__**Take an interesting perspective**__: Information can be incredibly boring without imagination, but a good speaker can make a bad topic so interesting you can't get enough. Take a unique perspective on the information you are presenting. Provoke thought and if you can a desire to learn more.

__**Completion and presentation**__: Your final tasks are to finish the work by patching everything together neatly and making sure that the whole teaching leads to a single and great conclusion at the end.

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