Instructing

Something that i am “geek out” by would be teaching little kids. For the past five years I have worked at a Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Houston and was promoted to instructor coordinator my second year working at the J. Becoming the Swim coordinator was a huge blessing. I have so much love and energy for my students, that includes adults, and it just makes me abetter person honestly. 

I’m obsess over the fact that every summer i get returning students or even new students that are trying out the camps and private lessons. I work with students as little as one and half or just turned two, to twelve years old and then sim team is around seven years to eighteen , and my private sessions range from new borns to elderly. I love teaching because i love to see progress in my kids through out the lesson. One thing that always gets me up in the morning is as soon as the kids come out and usually my retuning students always run to me and just yell my name in excitement. Another one of my favorite things that happen is that since I am an older instructor and have more experience than my fellow instructors that i taught I always get handed the babies, and sometimes toddlers that have never stepped foot into a body of water other than their bathtub at home. These students that have the fear of drowning makes me love what I do, It may sound bad but i swear its not. Something about these students that just met me a day ago I even 30-10 min before class and now they have to trust me with their life? There a lot of screaming i can tell you that. However, When you can connect with a child on a different level and let them know that yes you are listening. its only uphill from there. I always tell my instructors in the mornings when we get our babies first that it is okay if we do not get in the water on the first week. The first week is more of a get to know you, I try to find little things that my students love and if it means googling a cartoon or reading a short story just to understand their interest then so be it. They’ll love you by the next week no doubt about it.This isn’t for everyone and for the longest time I really thought i wasn’t gonna find anything that I’m really good at and i was so fortunate to have this patience and have the willing to learn and teach muscle memory things. So there it is, this is my obsession.