What Sort Of Things Can I Fail?

Among the many reasons for failure, the most common are:

• » too long a briefing or one which is muddled or repetitive;
• » expecting too high a standard from the 'pupil' in the beginner or parttrained stage;
• » not instructing at a level appropriate to your pupils needs (over or under instructing)
• » inability to recommence instruction at a different point or to go back and explain again;
• » failure to detect faults;
• » treating a 'pupil' as a novice in the trained stage;
• » inability to adjust the content level of the lesson to match the 'pupils' knowledge;
• » demoralizing the 'pupil', eg, "The Examiner will fail you if you do that on a test".