teaching with sa

[june]

I'm currently in college to become a teacher. It's what I would love to do and have always known I would be a teacher. My only problem is that I'm worried about getting up in front of all the students and talking for a full hour because 5 minutes in front of the class now makes me sick. I was wondering if anyone here was a teacher and how hard/easy it is to teach with sa

 

[Clash]

The only reason you can't do it now is because the people you speak to are your peers and you try to make more of an impression or worry more about the impression you might make. Someone younger or older than you is different. Anyway even if it is nerve wrecking you will get used to it. If you don't let them walk all over you you are good no matter how you act. And remember, if they start talking shit just slap them with a write up.

 

[GIOLANDA]

I understand. I'm not a teacher really,but I've done this privately,teaching children at home. I was very anxious in the beginning,but I got used to it quickly and it was OK. I know that your case is more difficult,as you'll be in a class,but take it easy. The most important thing is to know how to be serious,don't be very nice with them,because they are going to make you crazy soon! I didn't know this when I started,I was very sweet due to my shyness and they didn't listen to me.
Good luck

 

[ignisfatuus]

Not to add to your worries, but there is also the issue of what age group you plan on teaching. If high school, you may want to re-evaluate depending on how severe your SA is. I remember in high school while we were waiting in between class periods in a home room, my friend walking up to the new teacher they had assigned there, and asking within earshot of the entire class, "Are you gay?" The teacher's face turned beet red, and with the scent of blood in the water, he was gone from the school in two months (he wasn't, in case you were wondering (well, as far as we knew), but was so taken off guard he could not formulate a response).

I don't necessarily blame teenagers for pushing against those who exert so much arbitrary control over them, however they are extremely perceptive of teachers who lack in confidence and exploit this at every opportunity.

 

[Vincent]

fear control

i have been teaching for a few years. most of my students have been young, which is easier. i used to worry quite abit about Taiwanese co teachers, but not anymore. I had a subbing assignment, to teach four fifty minute classes of about fifty young teenagers. When I got up there, beside myself with worry. i told them all how nervous I was, how i didnt sleep well last night, then I just talked shit. what helped was that there were smart arses asking if i was gay, did i have a gf and that. i said i was gay, put on a mock gay voice and asked that boy on a date. i found that all the kids giving me shit made it easier and more amusing.

if u take shit personally or be unpersonable, then they will be more vicious. if the students have more of a life than you, so what? u will feel good for what you have achieved. its a big rush teaching, id like to teach in a uni or something with a couple of hundred young adults, even though it terrifies me

 

[Vincent]

Vincent, you really do swear alot.

Don't you have better words in your vocabularly than "S**t".

What sort of teacher are you anyway? Carrying on with that kind of language?

-Yourself