Shyness 2-4

Jun 23, 2013

She was standing in front of the students in her high school class.
She looked nervous, but today she looked a little different than usual. She started to speak, "W ..when I was a high school student, ... I was a very shy person. ... I'm still a shy person, though." She weakly laughed, but none of the students laughed.
Actually, the students were genuinely nice. Nobody made fun of her shyness. Instead, they felt sorry for her when she became shy. They knew that she was a good teacher, and so her shyness was nothing to them.
She continued, "... I entered college, and took an education course, ... I wanted to be a teacher. When I was a high school student, ... I had a hard time to study each subject; I was not a smart student." Some of the students laughed. She said, "... I was not smart, plus I was a little lazy." More students laughed. "So, every time, I was thinking how to learn with the least amount of energy or the least amount of

effort. Naturally I came to be curious about teaching and entered the College of Education. ... In there, I met a professor. His study was on how to teach efficiently; that made me curious. I absorbed his class, and the professor and I became close. We thought about new ideas on how to teach, and invented some techniques; although tricky, I sometimes tried them in real schools. But I soon realized that I was afraid of speaking in public. Anyways, I managed to become a teacher and I came to this school as my first teaching assignment."
By then, she felt a little bit confident somehow, she continued, "As you know, I've been awkward in front of you until now. But, recently, a mental doctor taught me how to manage the shyness. He used various methods on me. His way of experimentation reminded me of my college days' struggling to think how to teach with my professor. The mental doctor was a professional. He offered different approaches when I complained of his method. At the end, I realized that I was an amateur ... I realized that there were many things to do instead of worrying about my shyness, I mean many things to think about teaching."
Now, the students watched her with interesting eyes. She became more confident and looked around her students. "I have several ideas how to teach you more efficiently, they might be tough on you, though." The student laughed. She laughed. She felt relieved. "I want to keep them for later. So, why don't we start today's lesson? " She announced briskly.
(The End)

*assingnment: a job or type of work that you are given to do (O)
* experimentation: the process of testing various ideas,methods etc to see where they will work or that effect they have (L)