8th Quick Step: How to ask your teacher for help, so their help, helps.

What to do when your teacher's explanation doesn't help?

Have you ever gone to your teacher for extra help, and their explanation doesn’t help? What did you do? Ask again, give up or tell them you don’t understand or … Today, I’ll write about how to ask your teacher for help so their helps, helps.

I always encourage my students to ask their teacher for help - their teacher is at school every day, and their job is to help you understand, so ask away. Here’s a story about a student I had many years ago who went up to ask his teacher a question, and well, it didn’t go well ☹. But we solved the problem 😊. This is how our conversation went, and I’ll call the student Reid (not his real name).

Reid: I went up to get help from my teacher.
EH (that’s me): Well, done to go up and ask a question. How did it go?
Reid: Not well.
EH: What happened?
Reid: I asked her a question, but she explained it the same way she did to the class. But I still didn’t understand.
EH: Okay, what did you do?
Reid: I asked her