I guess I just get so concerned about everyone looking at me and sounding dumb.
In class? Totally fine. Teenagers aren't real people - who cares what they think? :) I am sure that I've looked and sounded dumb every day for the last 14 years. I've danced and sung in front of classes and (though I can literally feel my face turning bright red) don't care. But put me in front of one of our faculty meetings and the issues begin.
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This morning a teacher friend came up to my room - I have her senior daughter in class (she was absent yesterday). She told me her daughter had stayed home yesterday because she was so worked up about the presentation; the girl was currently in her mom's classroom refusing to come to our first period class. I felt horrible. I can totally understand what the girl's going through. She's a sweet, quiet, listener-type (totally opposite her wild and crazy mother, btw) and has probably been fretting over this since I first assigned the project.
I tracked her down in her second period class and reassured her that I understand her anxiety and asked her to come up after school and just show me what she found - hopefully she's not worrying about it all day. Poor thing.
2 comments:
I get the same way in front of adults. Recently I've had to talk a lot in faculty meetings and practice really does help.
I feel for the girl. I had one student do this last year and she presented to only me after school. I'm not sure how to fix this or if it is even necessary to fix. I hope the rest of the projects went well. Thanks for the shout out.
Amber
I just try and tell myself that it's short lived and I'll be fine afterwards. Sometimes that helps. :)
I just felt bad for putting that poor girl through the stress. But she got through it and maybe will remember that next time.
Thanks for the project!
Kristen
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