Stage fear in college days

Now I work as a freelance faculty. But during school/college days I never use to attempt participating actively in the class in discussions. That was certainly due to fear. After coming out of college only I developed confidence and am able to address groups well now. Nowadays I guide the students to get over this stage fear by giving them the topic on which they can talk confidently.

Yes Iam still at school (higher education - master) and I have still the fear the present at a huge group even a small group, because every eye is pointed at you. Atleast you expect it to be. But when I present front my class (childrens) I doesn't feel fear. It is weird. With my classmates I feel fear, but with my class I doesn't feel any fear ;o (Iam on a education to become teacher)

I think it happens due to lack of practice. In the Indian education system, we hardly do presentations and give talks in our school life except for some competitions, which only few of us participate in. Hence, when we enter professional courses, we face this fear factor. I was a good speaker in my high school days and the teachers always used to select me to participate in inter-school competitions. But, in my graduation I joined a college where there was nothing happening. We were all dormant for 4 long years. Now, I'm in my masters and have to give presentations almost every week. There, even if I feel I'm confident and not actually afraid, my voice naturally trembles!!! I'm so surprised and also feeling low because of it. I know that I'm not really afraid and I very well know what I'm presenting. But still it happens. I'm sure it's due to the lack of practice by being idle for 4 years of my graduation :P

Hello, Yeah, i experience shAking of feet and body whatever the report is. Even how prepared I am it still happened to me. They keep telling me to be confident because you know your report than your listener but still i can feel the fear inside me. That i cant control. I am practicing myself in facing the crowd because i know it will help myself at all. Right?? I should be confident in every task that i must do.

This happened to me also. In the beginning my legs used to shiver i was so afraid of stage and audiences. But i guess the more you face them, your fear goes away.

Hi yaso4u, College life really very challenging and exciting to everyone. However you really need to exert effort and conquer your fears especially for project presentations, demonstrations, reporting and research defends. I normally ready to proceed to my presentation by smiling and and having an eye contact with my instructors or professors to gain support and confidence, because I know that they will not let me down if ever I will mess up! And next thing is saying HI to greet my warm audience, just to have an assurance that they were all ready to listen to my discussions, and they could raise questions, comments and recommendations for my reports to develop so that I could deliver a good presentation!

I've experienced the same thing. I usually lose my voice whenever I am in front of the class. It started since I was in grade school up to college. But thankfully my last year (only!) in college, I've managed to gain confidence a little. It was too late but then again at least I think I have overcome it.

I had the same experience when I was in college. What I used to do is to make sure that I understood the topic quite well that I would explain without having to check the powerpoint. It worked really well for me and I would gain confidence within a short time.

Stage fear occurs to everyone and it is not confined to students but for all. The amount for time we spent for that gradually it will be reduced. There is plenty of opportunities for students to come out of the stage fear. They should use that opportunity to come of that.