Is there such thing as a stupid question?

It is in every teacher's vocabulary that there is no such thing as a stupid question (except the one you don't ask). Tonight, I seriously question myself about that one.

My class is a very enthusiastic group of learners but man, some of them are so dense. I keep trying to think back and remember what my freshman courses were like. To me a 5 page reading with pictures on each page and less than a full page of text seemed like a breeze. Then to top it off with interactive activities and a full week to do it in...These studentst are having a tough time completing it! Am I hardened after coming off of 40-60 page reading assignments each week?

I really like interacting with them but I think I am more of a counselor than teacher. Although, I did have to explain some very basic vocabulary tonight. I didn't have examples prepped (note to self for next week) so I had to make them up on the fly. We had a full hour of a productive seminar again and I asked them at the end if I need to change anything up. They all said no, they like the format (which is good because I don't know how much changing I could do). I need to get better open ended questions in there that make them think but considering how I started this post....that might be wishful thinking on my part.

All in all, 2/10 weeks are complete. Whew! Like it so far.