[Woodcarver] unteachable students?

[Classic Carving Patterns]

GOOD MORNING MARICHA!

My e-mail box looked awfully bare this morning until a few moments ago
when you e-mails popped into the box ... our THANK YOU goes to you!

You wrote:
to think all this started because of carving, because of the delicate
people
I have had to deal with, with trying to motivate and teach almost the
unteacheable students, in my inadequateness to find a solution, you are
helping tremendously and finging solutions..

Now, this is just my opinion ... But I don't think there are Unteachable
Students.  I think, I hope, that it is more the case that as teachers we
can't see at that moment what is getting through and what is not.  Each
student seems to absorb different information at different rates and at
different times.  I know that some times you come in contact with a
student that you just can't seem to connect with during the class
session.  Try as you might you just don't seem to find the right words
or right demonstrations to make your point. It is an extremely
frustrating situation for any teacher.

However, many of us 'teachers' have also been the students (and
hopefully still are in many ways today.)  As a student I have had
teachers that for all of my trying and their trying I just couldn't
follow.  But some where down the line, unexpectedly, I remember
something they said, something that they showed me that day in class.
Perhaps it is the input of that particular time when I remember them
that was needed for me to 'connect the dots' with the information that
the teacher was sharing.  Example, maybe I am down in the workshop
tracing out a pattern when it hits me that I can see the pattern flowing
with the unusual grain of the wood ... And suddenly I understand what
that teacher meant by using the grain to enhance the look of the depth
of the pattern!  See the light bulb go off many weeks or months AFTER
the class is over.

When you do encounter that seemingly 'Unteachable student' or come away
from a class feeling like an 'Unteachable' I think what becomes most
important is the simple fact that you and they tried to find a way to
communicate!  Just keep doing what you are doing with the hope that all
that stuff is going into their/your brain and someday that little bit of
added date will come along that makes sense out of it all.


Changing subject ... Tiny little rant here!!!! ... And this is just MY
OPINION!!!!

If anyone is lurking because they feel that those that post to this list
'know more' than you do ... PLEASE have mercy on us posters!!!!  You
don't know exactly what I do know or don't know.  You don't know for
sure that I already know everything that you know!  If this is your
reason for not posting you are assuming something that is not a fact.
There is a lot that I don't know yet which is why I personally follow
the list!  So if you are not posting you might be withholding that very
little or very big or extremely important bit of information that I need
to make the light bulb turn on!  And being a very selfish, very
self-centered type of learner here ... I personally want that little bit
that you have tucked away from your experiences!!!! 

Thank you for listening to my  rant.
Susan

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[mailto:woodcarver-bounces at six.pairlist.net] On Behalf Of maricha
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 5:06 AM
To: [Woodcarver]
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dear friends,

 terry, carol, bill smith, bill judt, mike, tom loren and susan and
folks.
wow thank you for your kindness and thoughtful replies.

.....

to think all this started because of carving, because of the delicate
people
i have had to deal with, with trying to motivate and teach almost the
unteacheable students, in my inadequateness to find a solution, you are
helping tremendously and finging solutions..

THANKS........... THANKS

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