Teaching Anxiety: Why Nervousness Means You Care (Instructor Guide)

If you find that you're nervous teaching there are a few things that you can do Number one thing the absolute top of the list This ain't about you. You are only the instructor instructor and the teacher The whole class is the other people there So if you have 30 people in class and you're one person then it's you know, it's 30 times more important What's happening there than what's happening in you? You are leading the class, but it's not about you You are just there so that day can practice and when you change the focus from what are they gonna think about me or whatever? It is that the ego comes up with and you focus on them.

And how are you doing? How are you feeling? What are your needs? You can't be nervous because you can't be nervous for other people like that People in your class will most likely be much more nervous than you for the first one You're teaching for the first times so it ain't about you that should be relieving Nervousness and excitement are very hard to separate So the fact that you're nervous Shows that this means something to you if you weren't nervous at all Maybe this doesn't mean too much to you So the more nervous you are just means that you're doing something that you're excited about If you want to be less nervous practice more practice every day to three four five six times practice teach every opportunity You get the more skilled you are the less nervous you will be that's true also They know less than you so they can't really double check you so you can basically I don't promote to bullshit talk, but even if you say something that doesn't make sense at all, you know You just blurt it out.