No imposter syndrome
I've been teaching aerial silks formally for a little over half a year now. When I first started, I had total imposter syndrome and I kept expecting to get called out on it every class. But I'm through it and feel very comfortable with my teaching. I'm not going to be the best teacher for everyone, but I don't think I'm going to be a bad teacher for anyone and I do think I'll be a solid teacher for most.
It's nice to feel solid with my choices. I don't get nervous anymore when students come from other teachers. :)
I had a fun class last night. None of my regulars came, so it was small, but one of the students was in town from another country. There's a lot of regional variety in movement vocabulary, so it's always fun when people travel (especially since I'm not travelling right now). I learned a neat new way to enter x-cross/cross-back straddle inversion. Hopefully, I'll remember it!
In other news, Small Ball has an imaginary friend right now. It's funny because sometimes Small Ball will talk to her, or will decide to do something because the imaginary friend wants to do it (like yesterday, SB didn't want to go into a chocolate shop but then when I asked whether imaginary friend wanted a piece of chocolate, SB changed her mind). She also would like to be a mermaid and pretends to do arm/face painting of flowers and butterflies. Some kids want to have a professional princess at parties; SB apparently would rather go ahead and be one.
Between her hoop practice and princess training, I expect she'll grow up to be an accountant.
It's nice to feel solid with my choices. I don't get nervous anymore when students come from other teachers. :)
I had a fun class last night. None of my regulars came, so it was small, but one of the students was in town from another country. There's a lot of regional variety in movement vocabulary, so it's always fun when people travel (especially since I'm not travelling right now). I learned a neat new way to enter x-cross/cross-back straddle inversion. Hopefully, I'll remember it!
In other news, Small Ball has an imaginary friend right now. It's funny because sometimes Small Ball will talk to her, or will decide to do something because the imaginary friend wants to do it (like yesterday, SB didn't want to go into a chocolate shop but then when I asked whether imaginary friend wanted a piece of chocolate, SB changed her mind). She also would like to be a mermaid and pretends to do arm/face painting of flowers and butterflies. Some kids want to have a professional princess at parties; SB apparently would rather go ahead and be one.
Between her hoop practice and princess training, I expect she'll grow up to be an accountant.