I have had two moms come and tell me this week that their child thinks I hate them....What am I doing wrong?! :(
This has been a really, really, really hard week and I am so emotionally drained right now; I'm not sure what else to do besides just sit and sob.
Sometimes I feel that I am not wired to be a 7th grade teacher.....these kids still expect someone like their elementary teacher, and I am just not like that. I have too much on my plate to be able to walk them through everything and coddle them. I dont feel like I am being mean. I feel like I am trying to be fair in my teaching and disciplining, and I feel like I am a fun, outgoing teacher.
So then why do I feel like I am failing miserably? :(
Amen, amen, amen! I've had some similar experiences where other teachers have come to tell me that specific students are scared of me! Why? I've just realized that these 7th grade students are incredibly sensitive. Like ultra-sensitive. So, I've just had a particularly sensitive eye toward those students who I know are "iffy" about me. I've written some personal notes that simply encourage and uplift and prove that I do care about them! But - what I'm realizing is - we're not doing anything wrong. All teachers are experiencing this too! It's just them learning our personalities and techniques and us learning their needs and sensitivities.
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