If you don’t have the skill, teaching could be a difficult
task especially if your pupil or student is a kid that performs very poorly at
school. Sometime ago, a parent sought for my services. I was to brush up his
three kids. All the kids had their peculiar challenges.
There was a twin of boy
and girl both in primary one. While the other kid was in primary two. The twins
had serious academic problems: they could not write numbers 1 to 10 correctly,
they could not write the alphabets. To worsen the situation, they could not
read two-letter words.
This was a big problem for me as their teacher. For weeks I
was frustrated. They only made minimal progress. Also, they had very low
retentive memory. Sometimes I went home with headache. After many months of
coaching, they soon started to make observable progress. At last my patience
started to pay off.
QUESTION FOR READERS
1.
What are the challenges the teacher faces?
How do you help students with poor retentive
memory?