ABOUT FEAR, MAKING MISTAKES AND THE ANXIETY OF TEACHING...

Are you afraid of being in the SPOTLIGHT and, ooopppps, making A HUGE MISTAKE when ALL your students' eyes are on YOU.  Well, don't be afraid, to be SINCERE, it IS BOUND TO HAPPEN, and not once, believe me, it is pretty frequent we, teachers, make mistakes when teaching...

And then, anxiety comes in the dead of night, creeping into your soul and you are left breathless feeling your whole world is about to collapse...

Again, YOU WANNA BE A GOOD TEACHER, well, then, ACCEPT THAT MAKING MISTAKES IS JUST HUMAN and you are human, YOU ARE NEITHER A FAIRY OR A CYBORG (maybe you will be those beautiful things in another life or maybe you are being so in a different dimension, who knows).  For the the time being, your human shape will show human traits, isn't it lovely?

You are alive..., which is WONDERFUL, and if you are alive you are here to MAKE MISTAKES AND LEARN FROM THEM WHITHOU A SENSE OF REMORSE, we do things, we create things... and of all of a sudden we fall on our knees and see how everything crumbles to the ground..., then we GET UP, KEEP ON WALKING AND CREATING, which is so GREAT!!!!  Do you get this, SUPERB WOULD-BE TEACHERS?  I think this is one of the features of "GREAT TEACHERS", they overcome difficulties with a smile on their faces and that is devoted to inspire their students...  Do you agree?  As always, I may be so wrong...to actually be kind of right.

But well, tell me something, are you really worried about making mistakes when teaching?  How do you think this may affect our teaching lives?  Do you see a way to get out of this full circle?

Waiting for you comments my good students about to become excellent teachers!!!!!!!

And of course... I am sure I have made some kind of mistake in my writing here, or in my theories there... And that is so great..., because IT MEANS TWO THINGS 1) I AM ALIVE (YEAH!!!!!!) 2) I MAY IMPROVE  MY TEACHING.

Thanks for your wonderful cooperation, my good pals!!!!!!!!!!!

(Fran)