Having some trouble. I have stumbled a few timess teaching, and froze for a
few moments in evidence in mid sentence. This never happened to me before when
I have taught -- for ten years. I am sure a large part is nervousness for I
want to perform with excellence, and hope to get a permanent post. But I am
not sure how to fight it. Believe it or not, another problem is being
crippled. When I could walk, I'd teach by pacing and moving around the class
room alot. Now sitting and lecturing makes it harder to create community with
the students.
I don't know how to increase confidence nad I desperately need to for I need to
appear more confident and sassy. There has been such long periods of isolation
these last 8 years post-john that I fear I am no longer suited to the world of
human-interaction on a daily basis. Gawd, this makes me angry.
Maybe it is just a function of getting used to it again? Not giving up and
hiding under covers. And I sent a class email out to evidence and apologized
for freeze and then gave the example they were asking for regarding standards
of review for appeals. Just worried.
This sounds ridiculous I know but think I going to look around for speech class
to practice delivery . . . sometimes instead of a law professor I think I sound
like a first year student stumbling through.
Am an emotional wreck. And I use up enormous energy to try not to appear like
a wreck, not act like a wreck, and to carry on as if I was a whole functioning
normal woman. I promise the Father that if anyone like John comes within a
mile of Maria I will go off -- I will do anything to keep him from her. My
doctor in Atlanta tried to explain to me how events can so disturb one has to
literally damage the brain in a way that promotes or causes mental illness.
She did not see a "cure" for this, only meds to manage it.
But I have to "cure" myself or I will mess up Maria's future!! I can't just go,
now I am one of the mentally disabled. Oh well. Rather than posting I should be
working. Trying to get back to dissertation today. Hope everyone well and
Florida ASDers all safe.
Rosena
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05 Sep 2004 01:08:56 PM |
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"Filpriros" <filpriros@aol.com> wrote in message news:20040905140014.03503.00000400@mb-m05.aol.com...
Having some trouble. I have stumbled a few timess teaching, and froze for a
few moments in evidence in mid sentence. This never happened to me before when
I have taught -- for ten years. I am sure a large part is nervousness for I
want to perform with excellence, and hope to get a permanent post. But I am
not sure how to fight it. Believe it or not, another problem is being
crippled. When I could walk, I'd teach by pacing and moving around the class
room alot. Now sitting and lecturing makes it harder to create community with
the students.
I don't know how to increase confidence nad I desperately need to for I need to
appear more confident and sassy. There has been such long periods of isolation
these last 8 years post-john that I fear I am no longer suited to the world of
human-interaction on a daily basis. Gawd, this makes me angry.
Maybe it is just a function of getting used to it again? Not giving up and
hiding under covers. And I sent a class email out to evidence and apologized
for freeze and then gave the example they were asking for regarding standards
of review for appeals. Just worried.
This sounds ridiculous I know but think I going to look around for speech class
to practice delivery . . . sometimes instead of a law professor I think I sound
like a first year student stumbling through.
Am an emotional wreck. And I use up enormous energy to try not to appear like
a wreck, not act like a wreck, and to carry on as if I was a whole functioning
normal woman. I promise the Father that if anyone like John comes within a
mile of Maria I will go off -- I will do anything to keep him from her. My
doctor in Atlanta tried to explain to me how events can so disturb one has to
literally damage the brain in a way that promotes or causes mental illness.
She did not see a "cure" for this, only meds to manage it.
But I have to "cure" myself or I will mess up Maria's future!! I can't just go,
now I am one of the mentally disabled. Oh well. Rather than posting I should be
working. Trying to get back to dissertation today. Hope everyone well and
Florida ASDers all safe.
Rosena
did you know that you have so many different charactures in you life ,
that i can't tell who you're talking about when you talk about them ,
for example , last night , Bob was here ,
he left and then Bill phoned , he wanted me to help him move something ,
so i went to his house and George was there along with Fred and Bill ,
anyway we moved what we needed to move and then i cam home ,
and my first sons mother called and said she'd been speaking to the mother of my second child , so i called her and talk to my
youngest son who wanted me ,
to give him his brother's phone number so i had to call my first childs mother ,
and ask her if it was ok for my youngest son to have her phone number ,
but my first childs mother wasn't there so i talked to my first son about his brother ,
then i hooked my two kids up together
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05 Sep 2004 01:27:32 PM |
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Filpriros wrote:
This sounds ridiculous I know but think I going to look around for speech
class to practice delivery . . . sometimes instead of a law professor I
think I sound like a first year student stumbling through.
What about toastmasters? That's pretty much why they exist.
http://www.toastmasters.org/
They have clubs everywhere.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its
origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from
the true accounts which it invents later.
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
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05 Sep 2004 08:02:22 PM |
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Filpriros wrote:
Having some trouble. I have stumbled a few timess teaching, and froze for a
few moments in evidence in mid sentence. This never happened to me before when
I have taught -- for ten years. I am sure a large part is nervousness for I
want to perform with excellence, and hope to get a permanent post. But I am
not sure how to fight it. Believe it or not, another problem is being
crippled. When I could walk, I'd teach by pacing and moving around the class
room alot. Now sitting and lecturing makes it harder to create community with
the students.
I don't know how to increase confidence nad I desperately need to for I need to
appear more confident and sassy. There has been such long periods of isolation
these last 8 years post-john that I fear I am no longer suited to the world of
human-interaction on a daily basis. Gawd, this makes me angry.
Maybe it is just a function of getting used to it again? Not giving up and
hiding under covers. And I sent a class email out to evidence and apologized
for freeze and then gave the example they were asking for regarding standards
of review for appeals. Just worried.
This sounds ridiculous I know but think I going to look around for speech class
to practice delivery . . . sometimes instead of a law professor I think I sound
like a first year student stumbling through.
Am an emotional wreck. And I use up enormous energy to try not to appear like
a wreck, not act like a wreck, and to carry on as if I was a whole functioning
normal woman. I promise the Father that if anyone like John comes within a
mile of Maria I will go off -- I will do anything to keep him from her. My
doctor in Atlanta tried to explain to me how events can so disturb one has to
literally damage the brain in a way that promotes or causes mental illness.
She did not see a "cure" for this, only meds to manage it.
But I have to "cure" myself or I will mess up Maria's future!! I can't just go,
now I am one of the mentally disabled. Oh well. Rather than posting I should be
working. Trying to get back to dissertation today. Hope everyone well and
Florida ASDers all safe.
Rosena
I think your speech coach idea is a good one. Not to teach you what
you don't know, but to build your confidence which, as you said, is what
you need. I think just spending some time with a good one could really
work well. Good luck.
Kirby
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06 Sep 2004 10:13:32 PM |
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On 05 Sep 2004 18:00:14 GMT, (Filpriros) wrote:
Maybe it is just a function of getting used to it again? Not giving up and
hiding under covers. And I sent a class email out to evidence and apologized
for freeze and then gave the example they were asking for regarding standards
of review for appeals. Just worried.
Don't apologize. Don't do anything except keep going. You know more
than they do, and don't forget that. You are allowed to be human,
even if you're the professor. Laugh and go on. That's what I do.
Tell them you lost your train of thought, and pick up where you left
off. And don't worry about it.
The walking thing is hard. I don't know about that. I pace. I would
find it hard not to do that. But you'll get used to it, back in the
swing of it. It is VERY hard to teach when there are other things
going on in your head, but you have to try not to worry about it, to
just concentrate on what's happening in the classroom, there and now.
You can do that. It will get easier.
Nina
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"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me lay an invincible summer."
-Albert Camus
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| User: "Whiskers" |
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07 Sep 2004 03:31:59 PM |
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On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 18:00:14 +0000, Filpriros wrote:
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This sounds ridiculous I know but think I going to look around for speech
class to practice delivery . . . sometimes instead of a law professor I
think I sound like a first year student stumbling through.
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Not ridiculous at all - even if presidents and princes do get voice
coaching, real people can do it too ;))
Singing lessons might be useful too; improve stamina and confidence - and
perhaps give you a new gimick for the classroom!
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