The Big Jump or HOLY COW!
Every so often you see a student for whom everything suddenly clicks and like a rocket they take off to unbelievable heights. I had the fortune of recently seeing this in not one, but two students at the same time. Often when a tapper reaches the top of the class I recommend they straddle classes by continuing to take the current class and also taking a class that's the next level up. The straddlers typical have a hard time in the harder class but are usually ready for the challenge. What I almost never see is a straddler who takes the harder class and just eats it up straight away. I recently had two tappers do just that. For one of the tappers I could see this coming - she's been tapping well and has been very focused in class. The other one has always been a good student but her amazing jump came out of nowhere for me. And Man is it EXCITING! It's so fun to see kids suddenly make a huge jump forward like this. As tap teachers we struggle week in and week out