Answer 3

What is the best way to coach children's gymnastics

Answer 3

Maintaining a positive attitude when dealing with students, especially disruptive ones.

Evidence

Children are like sharks. If they smell fear, they smell fear they'll attack and forever undermine you position in the eyes of other kids, making it much harder to exert any influence over them, namely teaching. Projecting a positive image at all times keeps the sharks a bay.

Staying consistently positive makes people like you more. Especially when teaching kids, being positive and happy goes a long way. The more positive you are, the more your students like you. The more your students like you, the more willing they are to learn, and the more willing they are to learn, the easier it is for you to coach. Maintaining a positive attitude also gives them a solid basis to judge your mood and personality. If you're mean and strict one day, then happy and positive the next, it throws everyone off and leaves them guessing, disrupting the potential bond between student and teacher.

Staying positive is also a good way to deal with misbehaving children. It's no fun to tease some one who doesn't react. This works the same way. Maintaining a positive attitude and almost not recognizing what they're doing works wonders. No one likes to be ignored, and if they only receive attention when they're good, then they'll behave well more often

Sources

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