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| Cover Page of PresentationZen by Garr Reynolds |
It's funny that as a teacher I'm in front of an audience everyday and speaking publicly. Yet when it comes to choosing between writing a paper or making a presentation my first thought was to write a paper. I hate speaking or presenting and when given a choice I would rather not. Why is this? Perhaps fear of judgment from my colleagues? Fear of stumbling over my words? Fear of going blank in the middle of my presentation? Being a little bit of a perfectionist, I also think that I get a little timid doing a presentation on a project that didn’t necessarily go perfectly.
I tell my students all the time that performing in front of an audience is a skill that needs to be practiced and the more you do it, the better that you become. So I suppose I should become a student of my own teaching and take this perfect opportunity to practice something that scares me and something that I need to work on more as well.
