If you're just adding one item, and you wish to have that added to the table, you can manually insert it into your UITableView, here's an example:
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:_directions.count-1 inSection:0];
NSArray *indexPaths = [NSArray arrayWithObject:indexPath];
[self.tableView insertRowsAtIndexPaths:indexPaths withRowAnimation:YES];