When student teachers are nervous about their first time ‘in front of the whole class,’ I tell them, “Charles Rosen said that ‘physical manifestations of stage fright are the same as those described in medieval medical treatises as the symptoms of the disease of being in love.'”
Look at your students to fall in love with them. Fall in love with your content. Fall in love with your instructional strategies.
And then, remember as Emanuel Ax said, “Playing the piano, it’s not brain surgery. If I don’t do well, nobody’s going to die.” time.” Nobody is going to die from one lesson that doesn’t go as hoped.