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Meta Teaching

Meta Meta Teaching

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- Yochanan Rywerant

Teacher, trainer and master

Student - Alexander Yanai 1952 --
Own training in Tel Aviv 1969-1971

Assistant trainer to Moshe Feldenkrais in
San Francisco and Amherts

Advanced traings in USA and Europe, Israel

Basic trainings 1986 - 2010
TT trainings 1994 - 2010

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Modified: 19 May 2024
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Meta-teaching is the knowledge and reflection on teaching based on meta-ideas.

It is the teaching about teaching, a teaching process with practice consciously guided by thinking, inspiring teachers to teach more effectively. Meta-teaching is related to the knowledge, inspection and amendment of teaching activities in terms of their design, practice, process, and results.

It primarily consists of such dimensions as the clarification, representation of and reflection on teaching activities, and functions to keep the internal impetus for teaching, promotes effective learning, effective teaching, sustainable development of teachers for their profession, as well as the development and perfection of teaching pedagogies.

Absence of meta-teaching highlights the necessity for teachers to understand and master meta-teaching strategies so as to help students better understanding their learning process, facilitating them with meta-learning and cognition strategies, as well as encouraging their meta-thinking.

In epistemology, and often in common use, the prefix meta- is used to mean about (its own category). For example, metadata are data about

The modern sense of "an X about X" has given rise to concepts like "meta-cognition" (cognition about cognition), "meta-emotion" (emotion about emotion)

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At 65 years of age, Moshe Feldenkrais
began training teachers
and develope a profession 

Yochanan Rywerant had began his ATM process in 1952.

He was invited to participate during the years 1969 -1971 in the first (original) training conducted by Moshe Feldenkrais in Tel Aviv to become a teacher.  They met every day at the office Nachmani street for FI studies, 6 days a week, 10 monts a year for 3 years.

The group consisted of professionals with academic degrees or professions. The had previously attended ATM classes at Alexander Yanai and other places for many years.

Their own Feldenkraisprocess was well established since many years.

Yochanan Rywerant was with him from the start and was instrumental in conceptualizing FI.
The need for a a meta teachings was self evident for him.
Yochanan was always asking questions...
from the film

"Feldenkrais is a process. What is interesting is not the final product, but how someone reaches his/her goal. The way, the pathway to the destination is interesting. The way of doing so makes all the difference."

Bruria Milo

"A story about the Feldenkrais method" is a documentary feature in which a historic meeting is taking place.

Group-13 consists of the immediate disciples of Moshe Feldenkrais, who participated, in his first course for trainers that took place between the years 1968--1971, and who have not congregated since.

I have the movie in my archieve, please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for information.

The teachers are:
Ruth Alon, Dr Schlomo Bracha, Dvora Hisdal, Schlomo Efrat, Batia Fabian, Bruria Milo, Fanny, Lee Salomon, Chava Shelhav, Miriam Pfeffer, Yochanan Rywerant, Alon Talmi and Eli Vadler

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Why meta teaching is necessary in learning the Feldenkrais profession - a retrospective

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"Everyone learns the method without imitating his teacher.
Yochanan is not imitating anybody"

Moshe Feldenkrais foreword in teaching by handling

Yochanan Rywerant explains how he and Moshe Feldenkrais switched places while giving FI's at the Institite in Tel Aviv, in silence. Appreciating what needs to be clarified for the student on the table. It was obvious to both of them. They applied principles and a consistent logic of lessons that were tailored to the client's needs.

Knowing this is meta-thinking, which can be taught and learned.

I have experienced this.

YR assisted MF in the San Fransisco and the Amherts trainings. Here they are teaching together in the San Francisco training.