Proud Student

Okay so this may seem like small potatoes after reading some of your blogs, but this really helped me make it through a Wednesday. I have been teaching french braiding for the past two weeks. If you had ever tried to teach french braiding you would know how tedious and stressful this can be. I hear "Mrs. Durden" about a thousand times and have to stop and count to ten more times than I can remember. I have a particular student who seems to have ten thumbs and not much coordination. She had worked and worked trying to get the motions down for braiding and just couldn't seem to get it. I had helped her hand over hand numerous times and she just wasn't getting it. I tell you I dreamed about ways to help her "get it", was I not breaking it down enough? Was my "wording" not making it clear enough? Well, Tuesday night it came to me. My wording was not quite basic enough for her. So Wednesday when she came into class we gave it another shot (with my new wording) and sure enough it started to click. She was so excited we both yelled out and danced around a little. I think my class thought I had lost it. I couldn't have cared less, it was a hard earned moment and I was going to enjoy it. It made me forget about the thousand "Mrs. Durden's" and the aching back and fingers, this is what teaching is all about.