This one little thing could be the difference between a students success or failure.
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There was an interesting study they did with teachers and students
00:04 where what they would do is there were certain students that weren't performing
00:07 well and they were trying to demonstrate the effect that expectation has on a
00:11 student's performance so what they did is the students they completed the test and
00:15 then the obviously the people doing the study would tell the teacher that
00:20 certain students did really well so then what happened is because the
00:25 expectation of the teachers improved and thought that that student is going to do
00:29 well then that student actually did well so the influence a teacher can have
00:34 on a child is huge.
00:45 My father taught me one of the things many things he taught me
00:48 that in everything you do in life if you can get a sense of accomplishment
00:53 you'll get a level of satisfaction and you'll feel good about yourself. It's all
00:57 about it self-worth and it links into resilience but you can get that from
01:03 doing a menial job like vacuuming the carpet. If you say I'm
01:07 going to do it and I'm going to do it well and you do it and you look back and say oh it's
01:12 great. You can feel a sense of accomplishment or achievement.
01:16 For people who undertake a course of study I always feel a little sad for
01:23 those who don't complete the course and I know in accounting there used to be one
01:28 paper that was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back. It was called
01:33 auditing and there was a whole lot of people who did accounting but never
01:38 passed that one paper for auditing and therefore never qualified.
01:43 Of course what they come away with is a little bit of a chip on their shoulder.
01:49 I know auditing was not easy and it was a bit repetitive and boring.
01:55 But you know if you break all these things down they're achievable. You just you know
02:01 put a little bit more effort and you never give up.
02:05 It's that sense of determination you've got the resilience
02:11 you're going to achieve no matter what obstacles you put in place or put in
02:17 place for you. You probably do put them but there's sometimes other
02:21 people help along the way. One of the things I noticed when I was teaching as
02:27 I did I taught accounting on a part-time basis at Auckland University
02:31 for in excess of 20 years and I really enjoyed teaching mature students because
02:38 these were people often told they weren't good enough or confident enough
02:44 to go to university to do a degree. But now are coming back later in life and doing
02:50 one of the more difficult subjects, one of the less exciting subjects if you
02:57 think accounting is not particularly exciting. To me I look at a little bit
03:01 differently because accounting opens up a whole world of information about how
03:07 businesses work, how money works, and you know to a certain extent
03:15 they're saying that money makes the world go round is actually true because
03:19 money does actually give people choices to do the things they want to do when
03:24 they want to do them. But with these mature students you know it's was amazing the
03:32 results that they would achieve they were getting A's when they would have
03:36 been written off as younger people as not being bright enough or smart
03:42 enough to achieve. The reason they were getting A's is they were doing what they
03:47 wanted to do you know they had a sense of purpose and providing I as a teacher
03:53 could communicate to them in a meaningful way because that was one of
03:59 the challenges because not everyone understands things in the same way so
04:05 you have to vary your teaching skill or your communication skills till you
04:11 see that the light goes on and I suppose that's a little bit about
04:15 what we do in financial planning when we are sitting down with
04:19 someone and listening to what it is that they want to achieve out of life, looking
04:24 at what resources they've got to do it, and you're giving them a scenario where
04:31 they can achieve those arrangements and it involves because these are
04:36 financial matters involved spending less than what they earn saving in a
04:41 cost-effective way accumulating and protecting capital to give them the
04:46 ability when they stop paid employment that their money will work for them as
04:52 opposed to them working for the money. That is to say that they can use the
04:59 income and growth from their investment to fund or cash flow their retirement
05:05 lifestyle. The financial gap and that's a there's an interesting study
05:10 they did with them with teachers and students where whether it do is there's
05:15 certain students they weren't performing well and now trying to demonstrate the
05:18 effect that expectation has on a student's performance so what they did
05:21 is the students they completed the test and then the obviously the people doing
05:27 the study would tell the teacher that since students it really well so then
05:32 what happened is because the the expectation of the teachers improved and
05:37 thought that that student is going to do well then that's your name she did well
05:41 so the influence a teacher can have on a child is huge