{"id":144595763,"date":"2024-05-14T12:25:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writetosuccess.net\/teach-learn-drink\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T12:25:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:25:56","slug":"teach-learn-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writetosuccess.net\/hi\/teach-learn-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach, Learn, Drink"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why every educator should be a student sometimes<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) Level 3 Award in Wines<\/strong> is a big deal in wine land. It\u2019s a course designed for wine makers, buyers, distributors, sommeliers, viticulturists, oenology students. Globally, it has a 50% pass rate. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is not designed for a quasi-lifetime English major who has managed to enjoy wine for a couple of decades without looking beyond the label. <\/p><div class=\"pullquote\"><p>I took it anyway. <\/p><\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/a68253c4-7d80-43ac-ba5c-643df47e295e_1071x1157.jpeg?w=1080&#038;ssl=1\"\/><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2021, I passed the WSET Level 2 Award. It was a reason to leave the house after a year of Covid lockdowns, a pleasant challenge, a chance to taste a lot of wine.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I knew the pass rate statistics for the Level 3, but thought: how hard can it be?<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What I meant was: <em>how hard can it be for an educator with two Masters degrees?<\/em><\/p><div class=\"pullquote\"><p><strong>What is that they say about pride and a fall?<\/strong><\/p><\/div><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although I\u2019d read the course book and started taking tasting notes, I wasn\u2019t even close to being prepared when the four-week lecture series started.  Stunned, sullen, I spent the first two weeks waiting for things to make sense. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then it became clear: nobody was going to learn for me. I had to figure out a way to master an insurmountable mountain of facts, or accept failure.<\/p><div class=\"pullquote\"><p>Did I enjoy the climb? <\/p><p>Honestly, no. <\/p><\/div><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it made me realize how vital it is that educators become students, from time to time. Being an expert all the time has a tendency to swell the head. When things are familiar and easy, it\u2019s easy to forget that may not be the case for our students. <\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1558670460-cad0c19b1840?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHw1fHx3aW5lJTIwdGFzdGluZ3xlbnwwfHx8fDE3MTU2MzI3ODh8MA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.0.3&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080\" alt=\"a group of people sitting at a table with wine glasses\"\/><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tackling the WSET Level 3 taught me the importance of\u2026<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New material<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So. Much. Information.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My self-satisfied notion, prior to this, was that I constantly learned new stuff. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>But I read all the time! etc. <\/em>This is not untrue, but reading for fun varies a great deal from <em>memorizing, <\/em>in a matter of weeks, a body of knowledge that ranges from meteorology to botany to chemistry to history to global legislation. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Being forced to engage with a mass of new facts and data, and having to learn it in a specific order, to apply in a certain way, was a powerful lesson. <\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New strategy <\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Being presented with this material meant my usual study strategies, or lack of, had to change. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Usually, I read, write and bluff. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That wasn\u2019t going to get me across the line for the WSET Level 3. The multiple choice questions were ruthlessly precise (ask me about which Loire Valley rose is always dry) and the bulk of the points come from four \u2018short answer\u2019 questions which aren\u2019t short.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To pass, I had to figure out <em>how<\/em> to learn what was required, then learn it. <\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New discipline<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This required a new (and frankly boring) dedication to <em>doing the work<\/em>. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My Master\u2019s degrees (Creative Writing, Education) were breezes in comparison. All they required was occasionally cranking out an essay, or a chapter of a novel. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The WSET Level 3 doesn\u2019t mess. My course at <a href=\"https:\/\/thewineplace.es\/en\">The Wine Place<\/a> was a sedate four weeks followed by an exam in week five. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some intensive versions are crammed into a matter of days.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It got to the point, I was cramming while cooking, brushing my teeth, doing yoga, between (teaching) classes, in the car. Only the shower was safe. <\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New perspective <\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This provided me with new \u2014 and probably overdue \u2014 perspective. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an educator who loves my subject, I sometimes struggle to remember that my students don\u2019t necessarily share my enthusiasm. Or that they may genuinely want to succeed and improve, but not know <em>how<\/em>.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Being overwhelmed, feeling out of my depth, getting frustrated\u2026 it knocked my confidence. And the farther my confidence slipped, the harder it was to muster motivation and stay on track.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s one thing to understand that as an abstract; it\u2019s another to experience it. <\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New mindset<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final test result was better than expected. But the most valuable parts of the learning journey were the least comfortable ones. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Studying for the WSET Level 3 reminded me the world is (much) bigger than my bubble, and that it\u2019s crucial to hold space for other areas of knowledge, other ways of seeing, other practical skills. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It pushed me to commit to learning as much from my students as they learn from me.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it taught me there is a great deal of joy to be found in looking beyond the label. <\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/7e58ac5f-eb30-420e-84ee-ecf2605be754_1200x1537.jpeg?w=304&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why every educator should be a student sometimes<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144595763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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