I (20F) am in my sophomore year on my way to getting my degree in early childhood education, so pre-k to 4th grade. I have pretty bad social anxiety and have since I was young. 

In just one semester I will start shadowing a teacher acting more as an aid and then a semester or two later I will start student teaching. Although it is still far out, I can’t help but have anxiety and fear surrounding it. The fact that I will have to teach students while a teacher watches has me thinking that maybe I shouldn’t be a teacher. I love children and know I would be happy in this career path as my anxiety is so much less amongst them, but the path i have to take to get there is causing a lot of anxiety. 

For teachers with anxiety, how are you coping? Was student teaching as bad as I think it is? 

Any advice or comments would be so helpful :)