Anxiety Awareness: Strategies to Improve Student Well-being and Performance

Graduate-Level Credit / Non-Credit Hours
3 Semester Credits or 45 Clock Hours

Course Description

Participants in this course will examine foundational elements that make up student anxiety. Participants will learn about the signs and symptoms of anxiety in students at various grade levels, maturities, and cultures.  Anxiety-reducing strategies and frameworks will be centered around the research of Edmund J. Bourne, Ph.D., and Tom Thelen (founder of Resetschools.org). Participants will explore research studies on the causes of anxiety, learn how it impacts students’ learning and classroom interactions, and how teaching style and classroom structures can increase or decrease anxiety. This knowledge will aid in applying strategies and practices/frameworks to identify, minimize, and address a variety of anxiety factors and disorders.  Additional topics include effective lesson planning to combat anxiety, explore online/digital resources to support classroom needs, including students with special needs, and connecting parents/homes to strengthening the support system to reduce anxiety. The course will conclude with participants developing an implementation plan or presentation to demonstrate knowledge and application of how anxiety impacts their classroom so they can improve student well-being and performance. 

Throughout the course, participants will engage in interactive dialogue through a variety of mediums to receive valuable feedback to reflect on from their instructor.  All formative and summative projects are reviewed and graded, and feedback from the instructor will be provided allowing the participant to enhance their portfolio of educational tools/resources to impact their classroom or school community.

Global Outcomes/Goals of the Course

To deepen and/or apply the content and skills of the teacher’s existing professional knowledge base by meeting the following global goals of the course:

1. To examine current research in the area of best practices in anxiety awareness for a variety of anxiety disorders and their applicable reduction strategies.
2. To develop an understanding of the need for effective methodologies to reduce anxiety and strategies to engage all learners in today’s classroom, both in-person and virtual classrooms.
3. To analyze current anxiety reducing classroom instructional practices in order to create engaged practices to better support student learning.
4. To explore applications of anxiety-reducing frameworks for students with special needs, various grade levels, maturities, and cultures.
5. To explore research-proven frameworks and lesson planning that reduce stressors that cause anxiety.
6. To collaborate and lead other educational professionals, as well as parents, to improve student learning through the use of best practices in anxiety awareness and reduction methodologies.

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• Structured 0
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• Interactive 1