Reflection Of A Personal Narrative

Through creating my own narrative story and listening to other narrative stories, I have learned a lump sum of significant aspects about myself and my fellow peers. As I began to write my narrative story I had numerous thoughts run through my head, but as I continued to think about what I should write a lot of my problems seemed to become smaller. This is when I began to realize all the new things I have learned throughout the semester. In addition, I had so many things I wanted to talk about, but because we only had a maximum of five minutes for our presentation I had to decide which vital aspect influenced me the most. Therefore, I decided to talk about how afraid I was of disciplining the children. I choose this because we learned so much about conflict resolution and behaviour management throughout the semester, that I wanted to touch base about how uncomfortable I felt trying to implement these strategies. Usually in a regular university class you learn new material, but you are not able to implement the things you learned …show more content…
I struggle with a small dose of social anxiety so coming into practicum really made me super nervous as I did not like all eyes on me. Practicum is based off of being observed, so this cause my anxiety to severally increase which made me feel panicked. As mentioned by Student #4 (day1,2016) she was super nervous on the first day but eventually felt more comfortable as the semester progressed. She explained how supportive her lead teacher, student helper and children were in the process. I also believe that I have grown from this experience and have stepped out of my comfort zone by placing myself in a very observable social situation and over coming my anxiety. In addition, the children have boosted my self esteem and made me feel more relaxed and comfortable which made an abundance of my social anxiety