Kevin Miller at Christianity Today shared how teachers who are “with it” teach 1 1/2 years of content in a given year, versus the 1/2 year’s worth of content from poor-quality teachers. That’s a 300% increase in effectiveness year after year! We’re all teachers with our own unique classrooms. Imagine the impact of a 300% improvement at your school, business, ministry, or home.
Teachers who get it have a quality called “withitness.” This is the ability to be perceptually and cognitively aware of what’s occurring around you at all times. Teachers who were aware of what was occurring during class (behavior, work, etc.) and who made their awareness apparent to their students, had high work involvement and low misbehavior from their students (Wolfgang, 2004).
So people who are with it simply possess withitness…the capacity to perceive the needs and concerns of others with accuracy and care.
It has little to do with being hip and everything to do with loving your neighbor.
Are you and your church “with it”?
