February 2010 | Volume 67 | Number 5
Meeting Students Where They Are
Pages 70-70
The Teacher Who Made Me Speak
Carl Glickman
An educator remembers when he began to build his confidence.
My public life began my junior year in high school.
I had a frustrating stutter. I was embarrassed to speak in public, and my self-consciousness made my stutter worse. It was frustrating because my speech was fluid when I talked to friends, but whenever a teacher called on me in class, my stutter was pronounced. I was a decent student and fairly popular with my classmates. Yet I became vocally paralyzed in the face of a teacher's question.
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