dancingalone
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So, this church TKD gig is helping me stretch my horizons. I am learning A LOT about the human condition in teaching an entirely different type of student than I have been before now.
Anyone ever had students who perhaps don't like to be challenged and so they manufacture an excuse to quit? I have a kid in the class who seems to use injury as an excuse to bow out of class when he does not understand a new drill or a new technique. He only likes to practice things he does well.
How do you all personally handle this type of student? Let it go on indefinitely? Eventually, I am sure everyone will recognize he is just being overly dramatic, but I would like to help him overcome this 'flight response' of his.
Anyone ever had students who perhaps don't like to be challenged and so they manufacture an excuse to quit? I have a kid in the class who seems to use injury as an excuse to bow out of class when he does not understand a new drill or a new technique. He only likes to practice things he does well.
How do you all personally handle this type of student? Let it go on indefinitely? Eventually, I am sure everyone will recognize he is just being overly dramatic, but I would like to help him overcome this 'flight response' of his.