Last night I had to teach a complicated boardgame I'd never played to a group, not all of whom I knew well, while setting it up for the first time, in a public space. In all, it took an hour, I felt incredibly anxious the whole time, I got some rules wrong & I spent the rest of the game so anxious I found it hard to speak or concentrate.
Is it possible to get over the stress & anxiety of teaching games? I'm autistic so there are additional challenges for me.
@TimClare ah! Ok. Are you doing a lesson plan or just winging it (or linear through the book)?
There are some teaching tricks that I learned pre-gaming that are helpful to me, and certainly the classroom presentation area has stuff that one can work on (in the same vein as Toastmasters does for public speaking).
@TimClare hmm. Ok, good to know the background. It sounds like you have the teaching experience, so it's the connection to games and how those lessons are oriented that seems to be the speed bump (assuming I'm reading into this correctly).
If I dig it out this week, would you have interest in my general lesson planning structure or do you think that's ancillary?
Tim Clare
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