10/10/2024
I’ve been chewing on something recently.
Something which came up quite by accident, in a number of conversations I’ve had with teachers, principals, parents and kids alike.
It’s something I call the “Tiny Mountains Methodology”, or TMM ( or TiMoMe, which I prefer because it’s much more fun than an initialism).
In my varied conversations, I hear things like
“it’s really wonderful how you guys do it”
“ My teachers are all really impressed”
“I feel like I learn a lot just from watching the class”
“ You are a funny man Teacher Titus”
“Your coaches really know how to keep the kids engaged”
“ It’s a very unique idea”
“ I like Tiny Mountains you know”
( I’ll leave you to guess which are the teachers , principals, parents and kids’ comments.)
And so I came up with a Methodology (my TiMoMe) which made it easy to understand. But if I had to distil it down into one simple thing, it would be this -
From the Children, For the Children.
Tiny Mountains is what it is, because of the children who made it that way. It was their input, their response (or lack of) to different approaches that led to our fine-tuning and testing and trialing until we got something that really clicked with the kids.
And it is for them, that we strive so hard to make sure each coach and each class meets the mark, and leaves them with a distinct impression that it is a great joy to be a child and to do things that children do.
(Continued in the comments)
