I mean if I'm having a hard time with it is obviously not easy for ME!
I much prefer the "you're almost there" approach. But it still has to be used gently, because it can feel very far away when you're not the one getting it.
Sometimes, man, I'm telling my body to do it, and nothing relevant happens. Truly frustrating. What it usually takes is going back to the beginning of a move, and working out an intermediary step that has my body feel the right sensation, and then trying to move again. Which is to say--there's a quantum leap I'm missing, and keeping on with the same approach is what'll make me mad and dispirited. A good instructor works out how to go back to the drawing board, or how to move on, with the hopes that another day and another class make be the straw that breaks the hesitation's back.
Man, I want to be sent home!!
I feel SO much better about my lack of housekeeping motivation.
I'm feeling like a housekeeping goddess right now. That will last until Thursday night, when I remember that people are coming to visit.
there's a quantum leap I'm missing, and keeping on with the same approach is what'll make me mad and dispirited.
I could've written this about physics. I had one fellow student who'd try to explain something to me the same way over and over and over...we'd both end up pissed off and yelling. I tried to avoid asking him for help. Sometimes my profs looked at me as if I was growing horns when I explained my thought processes, but would concede them legit.
That will last until Thursday night, when I remember that people are coming to visit.
You know we won't care as long as we can see the TV.
Man, I want to be sent home!!
Seriously. We were discussing the likelihood of our boss not coming in for moderately bad weather (she moved to the suburbs last week), and that would be almost as good as staying home myself!
Men were supposed to react well to being told a task they hadn't mastered was easy, and women better to being told it was hard.
Huh. I hadn't noticed a gender difference. I'll have to watch for it. Although, we tend to have mostly male students (I guess it's the guitar machismo thing) so my view may be skewed.
Sometimes the problem for me with teaching is the repetitive nature of what we do. We teach beginning instruments, over and over again. We do get advanced students, but that work by its very nature is more varied. But I can sometimes forget how difficult it is to learn to read music, and forget what methods I've used with what student (because it's always the students I don't know that I'm teaching this bit to). Last night I got a lot of blank looks, but because I was able to sit down and take time with each of the kids, I really think we got much further.
It's easiest in that environment, where I don't have to switch age communication styles. I can put teenagers at ease pretty quickly, but not if I'm switching back and forth to little'uns.
You know we won't care as long as we can see the TV.
Well, that's all right, then. We never let anything block the TV.
there's a quantum leap I'm missing, and keeping on with the same approach is what'll make me mad and dispirited.
I used to tutor calculus in college. I found that if the way I was explaining things wasn't working, I could easily switch gears and explain it a different way, so I could almost always make people understand the point. In fact, people often told me, "You have a way of explaining things that makes sense."
Hmm... maybe I should have been a teacher....
