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High School in Charlottesville. They had over 1,000 students. They didn’t make a single field goal,” she said.
Mrs. Snead attributes her success as a coach to the natural ability of her girls. One of her former players has another explanation. “You know the way she blinks those eyes,” she said. “We were afraid to mess up.”
When she first started teaching, Mrs. Snead didn’t find her education courses much help. “You either know how to deal with children or you don’t,” she said. “I know I did some very unusual things nobody would suggest in a textbook. What seems so great on paper doesn’t really work out.”
“I loved every day of teaching,” she said. “I tried to figure out what was going on their heads. I could remember the way I felt at their age. These children were reacting the way I would have reacted if I’d had the nerve. You have to identify with them. I don’t think some people can do that.”
“You have to be really interested in the children and really like them,” she said. “They knew that even when I punished them, I still liked them.”
Mrs. Snead believes her greatest success was in teaching math, even though that wasn’t her favorite subject in school and she hadn’t studied any math since high school. Particularly challenging was teaching the students to figure out which formula to use in solving percentage problems. ‘
“I had to teach myself, and that put me on their level,” she said. After lots of practice, her classes always learned to do percentage problems.
“I think a person of average or a little better intelligence sometimes makes a better teacher than a brilliant one,” she said. “The brilliant one may be on too high a level to put the information on a level where the student can understand.”
One thing Mrs. Snead doesn’t miss about teaching was the annual county commencements. All the elementary students in the county took part in these events at the Washington school. They brought projects they had made at school and displayed them. Then each class was
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