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"Do you foster an anxious mindset or a resilient mindset in your children or students? The USA is currently the number 1 most anxious country in the world with 27% of the population living with anxiety and depression. In Australia 20% of the population experience a mental illness in any year. In the UK 1 in 4 people will experience some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year and about 10% of children have a mental health problem at any one time."
Beth Dichter's insight:
This post discusses an app for the iPad or iPhone that helps students understand their feelings and how their mind works. There are three parts to this strategy. * Catch - Students learn to identify thoughts that impact how they feel * Challenge - Students learn to challenge their thoughts, asking if they are based on assumptions, facts, perhaps overly negative * Change - Students choose to change the way they think There is a table within the post that provides Do's and Don'ts for each of the three C's listed above. Consider posting the image as well as the table within the post "to help teach children to identify the exact nature of their thoughts, unpack and challenge those thoughts and stories and change how they feel." 
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"It’s exam time, and most students go through the same panicked routine semester after semester. While you may think caffeine IVs and all-nighters are the only way to tackle exam week, studies show that this kind of study pattern may harm your GPA more than it helps–YIKES! Fortunately, our latest infographic outlines some some sweet tips on how to make your study sessions less stressful and more efficient so you can rock those final exams this semester."
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"As any parent or teacher knows, tests can create crippling anxiety in students–and anxious kids can perform below their true abilities. But new research in cognitive science and psychology is giving us a clearer understanding of the link between stress and performance, and allowing experts to develop specific strategies for helping kids manage their fears."
Beth Dichter's insight:
What can we do to help our students with test anxiety? New research is providing some strategies that my help students. This post discusses three strategies you may want to consider trying in your classroom. * Unload on paper – Research has shown that allowing students to write their concerns on paper for about 10 minutes before a test allows them to relieve some of their anxiety, allowing them to score higher on a test. The post provides a link to this research. * Affirm your values – It may come as no surprise that minorities and females often are apprehensive when required to take a test, and it turns out that writing may also play a role here. In this study students were asked to write “about something they value and write about why it matters.” * Engage in relaxation exercise – Younger students may have a more difficult time expressing concerns over a test. Research has found that teaching younger students (1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders) relaxation and breathing exercise reduces test anxiety (providing you also have them do the exercises prior to the testing). For more information on these strategies click through to the post.
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"In children with math anxiety, seeing numbers on a page stimulates the same part of the brain that would respond if they spotted a slithering snake or a creeping spider—math is that scary. Brain scans of these children also show that when they’re in the grip of math anxiety, activity is reduced in the information-processing and reasoning areas of their brains—exactly the regions that should be working hard to figure out the problems in front of them..."
Jennifer Lynn's curator insight,
January 11, 2016 6:18 AM
Math anxiety is a serious problem that is noticed among many children now-a-days. This problem can lead to issues like losing self-worth and affecting the values of relationships among friends and family. So, you need to take care of your kids' mental and emotional health. Here are some of the tips that will help you to handle such anxiety in a better manner: http://bit.ly/22V4Q23 |
This is a really interesting post, in the way that it not only informs you about anxiety, but also shows ways to cope.
The 'Catch, challenge, change' stratergy has been created to help children and young adults relistically-
think about their thoughts-
"What am I worrying about?"
Challenge your thoughts-
"Is this definately going to happen?"
"What will happen if I do do it?"
And change thoughts-
"What can I do to make myself feel less anxoius? Talk to someone?"
I believe that once you know about certain disorders, they become less scary. Helping children and young adults learn and understand anxiety, even if they dont experience anxiety themselves, is an important step to teaching kids to understand themselves and people around them.
This is a great resource for helping students build resilience, especially those who have previously experienced trauma. Taking the time to show them how they can think about and handle what happens to them in a more positive way can be life changing in children. This could be integrated into any subject matter; it doesn't need to be limited to the school counselor; in fact, doing so would be a disservice. As I future school leader it is my goal to ensure that students are receiving as well-rounded of an education as possible--and not just academically-speaking. We should be addressing the whole person, and that includes helping them be socially, emotionally, and mentally successful as well.