
Turnover" of senior students is not an effective sensei.Įffective sensei is fair and impartial, with no "favourites". A sensei who is surrounded by turmoil and "staff

He is able to develop and maintain harmoniousĪnd effective relationships. Sensei is up to date, and maintains qualifications and expertise in firstĪid, teaching skills and effective management practices.Įffective sensei should have impeccable human relations skills, and has theĪbility to "lead" others. Principles to ensure a safe training environment. Sensei understands and applies modern bio-mechanical and human performance TheyĪre good counsellors and help people work through problems. They are concerned about other’s needs and concerns. Sensei is a human being who tries at all times to "do their best"įor others. "different" and "more advanced" in crucial areas of human Sensei is an "extra-ordinary" person, and is seen by others to be Needs, interests and abilities of others. To plan and deliver meaningful instruction, taking into account the varying Sensei has a good understanding of teaching principles. Is my first, tentative, preliminary, draft list: Imperfect as it is, and with humility scorched by the fire of egotism, here The list is also deficient in it’s omissionsĪny event, who is the judge? What human being would advance a definitive andĬonclusive answer to this question? The answer to the question lies in two places: Identify whether any particular individual sensei has "passed" the Performance by it’s very definition, it is not possible to empirically As the following list implies "superior" human One could equally make a list addressing the negatives, Position first, and therefore the criteria really refers to an "outstanding",

Trying to define the criteria of a sensei, one necessarily must assume a moral Throughout history there haveīeen numerous attempts to clearly identify "what is leadership". Required for anybody in a leadership position. The dojo environment "sensei" also implies "leadership",Īnd so the criteria for a karate sensei will be very similar to the criteria To teach others of a lower grade, and contribute to their development. Of high order of karate skills and knowledge. The karate environment, a sensei is seen to be a "teacher" or an "instructor",Īnd therefore the term implies many year’s experience, and the achievement Therefore I broadly understand a sensei to be "one who has gone before". They are born before, therefore they are thought to have knowledge that inexperienced people do not. Sen is a Japanese term that means before, or ahead.
