Despite being exhausted, I'm happy. Violin/viola students are sounding great and their technique is looking better and better. On the Computer Tech front, 6 parents (5 accompanied by their sons) stopped by to chat at Thursday evening's Open House. I thought this was low but today I learned that 6 is much higher than usual. Progress reports are in. The long weekend is here.
Teaching has been exhausting and exasperating at times, but those "aha" moments with students carry me through. Seeing that flash of understanding on a student's face...well, not much else is cooler than that. Thursday night the mother of one student said she'd been anxious to meet me all day because her son couldn't stop talking about the computer class, was doing work at home, and was (for the first time in ages) getting interested in other schoolwork too. She said, "He said to me, 'Ms. Green never sits at her desk!'" So true...I don't usually get a chance to sit down until the end of the day. But life is still good. :-)
So, I'm totally psyched that I'm reaching some students, particularly those who usually don't like school. On the other hand, I stress out a lot about how to reach the many kids with ADHD (some on medication and some not) and how to keep them from disrupting the rest of the class. I need to clone myself...
Thank Goodness It's Friday. And it's a long weekend. If I didn't have to leave for a wedding gig tomorrow morning, I would sleep until noon. Maybe Sunday.