I’m
teaching a class today called Studio & Business Boot Camp. So, I have pre-written this article to keep me from freaking out at the last minute that nothing would be posted and scrabbling for an article. I know myself well.
My mind is full of wonderful ideas for the class, but of course, as time looms on, I have more ideas than time to implement them. I’m wrapping up the slideshow and handout information and I’m starting to wonder if I may have packed the day too full. I always worry that I have either too much material or not enough material and in the end, it works out every single time.
I always get a little nervous about teaching classes full of students I’ve never met before. The roster says that I have 5 registered students and two more contacted me after the deadline, so I guess we’ll have 7 students.
I’ll stand up in front and I’ll run the projector and talk talk talk and then we’ll have lunch and then I’ll talk some more. We’ll go into a practical lighting & shooting application and then we’ll go back to classroom stuff and I’ll talk some more. I’ll send everyone away at 5 and have a 1 hour break and then I’ll proctor a CPP exam from 6-8pm. At the end of the day, I’ll be tired, but happy.
The students will have evaluations to fill out at the end of class. but they turn them into me, so I’m not sure how honest people are comfortable being. That’s kind of intimidating – handing them to the person they’re about.
After they go home, I’ll worry. About how I looked, about how I sounded. I’ll worry that folks won’t take anything new away with them. I’ll worry that I was boring or that I talked too much. I’ll wonder if the CPP candidates will all pass their exam.
And then I’ll snap out of it and go put my feet up and have a beverage.
I guess that’s all you can do. Do your best, and then relax.