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COACHING IN THEORY
There is Theory Coaching as well as Practical Coaching.
Coaching Theory means getting a student to define all the words, give
all the rules, demonstrate things in the bulletin with his hands or bits of
things, and also may include doing Clay Table Definitions of Scientology
terms.
That's all Theory Coaching. It compares to coaching on drills in
Practical. But it is done on bulletins, tapes and policy letters which are
to be examined in the future. Coaching is not examining. The examiner who
coaches instead of examining will stall the progress of the whole class.
The usual Supervisor action would be to have any student who is having
any trouble or is slow or glib team up with another student of comparable
difficulties and have them turn about with each other with Theory Coaching,
similar to Practical Coaching in drills.
Then when they have a bulletin, tape or policy letter coached, they have
a check-out. The check-out is a spot check-out as above, a few definitions
or rules and some demonstration of them.
DICTIONARIES
Dictionaries should be available to students in Theory and should be
used in Theory Examination as well, preferably the same publication.
Dictionaries don't always agree with each other.
No Supervisor should try to define English language words out of his own
head when correcting a student as it leads to too many arguments. On
English words, open a dictionary.
A Scientology dictionary is available.
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Remember that with Courses becoming briefer in duration, the number of
bulletins and tapes which the student must know on a Star-Rated basis is
also less.
General written examination for classification, however, remains on an
85% pass basis.
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Be sure that students who get low marks constantly are also handled in
Review, preferably by definitions of words they haven't understood in some
former subject. Scientology is never the cause of consistent dullness or
glibness.
Processing of this nature can be on an Itsa basis. It does not have to
be Clay Table. Just finding the prior subject by discussion and discussing
its words usually blows the condition. I've seen it change the whole
attitude of a person in just 5 or 10 minutes of auditing on a "locate the
subject and word" basis.
Therefore, definitions exist at Levels 0 and I, but not with Clay Table
or assessment, only by Itsa. You'd be surprised how well it works and how
fast. "Subjects you didn't like", "words you haven't grasped" are the
discussion questions.
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The subject of "wrong definitions cause stupidity or circuits, followed
by overts and motivators", is not easy to get across because it is so
general amongst Mankind. There is a possibility that past lives themselves
are wiped out by changing language, whether it is the same language that
changes through the years or shifting nationality. But however that may be,
don't be discouraged at the difficulties you may have in getting this
principle understood and used in Scientology departments-the person you are
trying to convince has definitions out somewhere also!
L. RON HUBBARD
Founder
LRH:jw.jp.rd
Copyright © 1964, 1967
by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED