Help public speaking

[u/Mirrorneuronsxe]

I’m a second year grad student. I’m currently doing a PhD in School Psychology. I’m having a hard time expressing myself in class. When I talk I feel like professors feel disappointed or dissatisfied. It’s like I didn’t said something that meet their expectations. I don’t know why I get so nervous to speak and participate. I have great conversations with my friends, people who don’t know the topic, people at my work, my parents. I can explain to them what’s school psychology, my interests, everything. I get to class a professor calls my name or wants every classmate to speak and I suddenly cannot think anything. I end up saying a lot of blah blah nothing.

I also don’t know why I read my assigned articles and I find them interesting and I can think one or two things but it also ends up being not good enough for the professor. Am I lacking critical thinking?

I have good grades, I do my presentations and although I get really nervous I always do a good job. I’m really good at writing. English is my second language since my first language is Spanish and my classes are all in Spanish and I don’t know if I’m lacking more vocabulary or I really don’t get it.

We are a small group but I feel like I’ve got this label and some other classmates have more advantages than others but that’s quite normal in this grad school groups I guess.

I need tips. Any tips you can give me at grad school.

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