Building Confidence and Overcoming Nerves as a College Professor
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- Опубліковано 3 лис 2024
- In this video I tackle some strategies for overcoming nervousness and anxiety at the front of the college classroom. As usual this video was inspired by something I struggled with in my first few years teaching undergrads. I so hope it helps a lonely adjunct out there somewhere!
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I am about to start a new adjunct instructor position at a local university. It has been six years since my last time doing this, and I was new to it at that time. I am excited, but also nervous. I watched several of your videos tonight. Your advice, tips, encouragement, transparency, and wisdom have helped me tremendously. You covered a lot of the areas I was feeling uncertain about. I feel better. Thank you so much.
Hi, I'm new to being an Adjunct Professor. I will be starting in a couple of weeks and so glad I found your channel. I'm retired from working in Info Tech and decided I wanted to share my knowledge. My first class is in UX/UI design.
Thank you so much for sharing this great video. I always felt nervous when there is silence in the classroom, thanks for the tip!
Coming from and old adjunct teaching for the first time. This is helpful and I get dry mouth too when I am nervous.
Thank you so much for this video! First time teaching college students and I was feeling so nervous and like I'm not good enough to be their instructor. Makes me feel better that is not only me but other faculty feel the same way. Thanks for the advice!
Thank you for the tips! I am starting my first college classes in the second semester... Your video is really helpful :) Keep it up!
Glad to see videos like this again. I am starting my 2nd year teaching in the social sciences, and I am shifting from face to face to online courses. I still deal with a lot of anxiety, but I’ve started my own channel to give myself more practice to increase my confidence.
Would you maybe think about doing a collab or tag for other college teachers/adjuncts? I feel like all the eduction channels I subscribed to are elementary or high school, so it would be cool to see the adjunct community grow. :)
Evie Redding I love this comment, and thank you so much for being one of the people who encouraged me with your last comment to keep making videos. I would love to figure out a collab. I also have a ton of questions about the experience of teaching online courses. Assuming there is a DM function on YT (yeah I’m REALLY a newb with this platform) maybe we can chat offline.
Sure, I’d love to chat (I’m still learning to be more engaged on UA-cam as well lol)
I think we can message on this platform once you go to another person’s channel page, but maybe they have changed it...
Do you have an e-mail address you wouldn’t mind sharing? If all else fails, we can use that 😂
Hey, want to do this first year teacher tag?? ua-cam.com/video/Y6U3L2yyJA0/v-deo.html
loved this video! super helpful, to the point and i'm nodding at everything! i just started my first semester teaching academic english at the undergraduate level. i'm actually an outgoing person, have a lot of experience public speaking and love it too! i'd actually say it's my forte to stand and speak in front of an audience but i still got incredibly nervous the week and night before my first day of teaching. i am a trained teacher, so pedagogically i am well versed, but it was that imposter syndrome of being so fresh and new that made me feel that! also the fact that i am not only new, but i am young - 26 years old :) and appearance wise i do look young too - so i was really anxious about how students would perceive me. but 2 weeks in, it's gotten a lot better and you're so right that students don't know what you don't tell them and its important to keep in mind that yes i am a trained and qualified teacher and the school hired me so that's that! definitely throughout one class session it can get better, the minutes do count for a lot, even just after the first 10 minutes, you hit your stride and momentum and you just go through the lesson.
outlining "today's agenda" at the start of every lesson to the whole class is really helpful for me too, but another thing i do is right after doing that is, i start with a pre-task mini discussion immediately. to set up the students for the lesson, i will pose a question/topic/statement related to it and get them to discuss in pairs or threes or fours. since i teach english and communication, it's really important for me that the class doesn't begin with me lecturing right away and students sitting there in silence listening. suddenly the room is boisterous with conversation and discussion and it really helps set up the mood for the class. not only does it gets students thinking about the topic, i get a chance to walk around and hear what they think before i lecture, and gets them more comfortable with talking to one another.
May Liao May Liao thank you so much for this great comment!! I was a young looking 28 when I started so I hear you on that. I love the idea of the small group discussions to get everyone started. For some reason it’s so much less intimidating to have to settle down a room that’s gotten too loud than it is to get things moving when the whole room is dead quiet. Weird how that works!
Thank you