Description of School-Related Anxiety
School-related anxiety is one of the significant problems that school-going adolescents face. According to Ryan (106), one of the most frequent psychological problems among young people today is anxiety in adolescents, and it is more prevalent in girls than in boys.
Notably, the personal situation, the relationships between classmates, the specific needs of each student, their personality, state of mind, motivation, and, of course, the management and organization of daily study and leisure time can lead to problems for the student. Some of these problems translate into stress and anxiety in the classroom, which teachers should be able to identify and address.
Adolescents who are experiencing classroom anxiety find school to be highly challenging, and thus, it may have negative impacts on their performance and social life development. This type of social anxiety leads to fear of being judged by others and a deep feeling of embarrassment. The anxiety, therefore, can make adolescents withdraw from their peers and teachers.
Teacher Approaches to Alleviating Student Anxiety
There are several solutions to classroom anxiety disorders that can be used to manage and help students with stress and anxiety symptoms. This situation should not be viewed as an insurmountable problem to solve; instead, students should be shown that it is a reaction that can be managed and improved upon to make them more comfortable in class.
First, the teacher must identify the situation that produces that anxiety and work on it. This can be achieved by providing students with emotional management strategies, facilitating personalized teaching and learning plans, or developing social skills and fostering classroom relationships (Herzig-Anderson et al., 667). The teacher should help students develop their interpersonal relationships and create a safe and pleasant classroom atmosphere. Additionally, encouraging students to participate in physical activity within the school environment helps them relax, which in turn reduces the risk of developing classroom anxiety disorder.
Works Cited
Herzig-Anderson, Kathleen, et al. “School-Based Anxiety Treatments for Children and Adolescents.” Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, vol. 21, no. 3, Elsevier BV, 2012, pp. 655–68. Crossref. Web.
Ryan, J. L., and C. M. Warner. “Treating adolescents with social anxiety disorder in schools.” Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, vol. 21, no. 1, 2012, pp. 105-118. Web.