As I continue my journey through wellness, I have found myself thinking about the people in my life that help have supported me. Teachers, family and friends and coaches all help guide in this process. Attending the Mane event really got me thinking about my own style in the classroom. I have started paying much more attention to the way I move amongst my students, role model interactions with patients and so on.
My daughter is a dancer. she does hip hop, jazz, lyrical and ballet. She loves them all, but struggles with one of her ballet classes
She describes her situation as feeling picked on. She has two different teachers. After Tuesday class, she comes home engaged, happy and thoughtful. On her Thursday class she gets in the car with a negative energy. It wasn't until last week that she described why she was feeling so low.
Tuesdays, my teacher S says I am doing great. "Today she really liked my point." She loves me. Then on Thursdays "I feel really humiliated. Ms R is always picking on me. " It all came flooding out. One day she put duct tape along the inside of my legs so she could watch them turn. She didn't do that to anyone else." Last week she took a video of me and made the entire class watch what not to do." She continued with stories of classroom humiliation.
Now my daughters confidence is eroding and we are both confused. Is the first teacher giving false praise and allowing my daughter to think that she is doing well? I am sure that the second teacher is well intended, however singling a child out amongst others is having negative consequences.
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