6.15: Overcoming Apprehension- Activities and Resources
Speech Fear Activity
Objective
Instructions:
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Variation: Sort the fears into categories. Write columns of the board of themes that emerge. Content fear, audience reaction fear, performance fear, etc.
Note: I conduct training on professionalism in the classroom for graduate students who will be teaching classes. They write on the card, what their biggest fears are about being a classroom teacher when they first come to the seminar. I then teach the seminar and then at the end they draw the cards from others. They discuss the common themes, similarities to their own fears, and how the seminar addressed them. They then talk about any unaddressed themes.
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Abrahams, M. (2018). Speaking up without freaking out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIXvKKEQQJo
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Her directness and her vocabulary may not be for everyone, but she makes an important point that we let our fears stop us from doing what we know we should do.
Robbins, Mel.
Stop Giving a Shit.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1651682978260913.
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Transform Your Thinking. (2016). Eight ways to get over stage fright and performance anxiety.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G17qayfxEoo
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Toastmasters. Managing fear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1u7THOudfw