The teacher I was assigned to follow was Nancy Hniedziejko. Over the past two weeks I have been able to read about her classes and her interactions in them. The first week she talked about her experience in a beginner quilting class that she had been taking. She described how the rest of her class seemed to be getting the hang of the techniques but she had struggles. Nancy did not want to be the only one who was having a hard time so she opted to tough it out instead of ask for help. Through her frustrations she had made a connection between teacher and student. In this case she was the student and was able to apply her struggles in the class room to her profession as a teacher and some of the children that she has that may have similar problems.
In the second week I read a previous post on how she had one idea turn into two ideas without even planning it. She asked her students write about what they would like to be when they grow up and how they would contribute back to society. She ended up evolving their papers into actual humanitarian projects that taught her kids the meaning and importance of giving back.
I enjoyed both of these posts because they both shared a common theme, and that theme is that she seems to steer herself into a successful outcome without ever intending it to. I sense that Nancy is very intuitive in her life's events and always seems to pick the important lesson from each one to help improve the learning quality of others as well as her own. It's great to read accounts like this that contain such valuable information for myself down the road but also for right now. It goes to show that if you don't keep an eye on the moment it will pass you by before you have a chance to soak up all it has to offer.
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