Are you a teacher or parent in need of some help in managing your student’s stress? It’s better to get control of these anxious feelings before they develop into more. Here are some helpful resources to check out!

Direct Help For Students 

Click HERE to be directed to a site to use for your students

– Description

• • This site outlines a number of strategies students can use to help ease any stress or anxiety. Breathing exercises are one of the more important aspects that this site looks at to show what helps students stay calm and collected. This site is great because of the sheer number of resources it provides along with recommendations of what to also look at.

– Core Integration

• • Students will look at the website and explore the various resources that detail different breathing techniques. There is a number of videos they can watch where professionals walk them through different breathing exercises.
  • As we’ve talked about, there are certain subjects that can be extra-stressful for certain students. To make this activity more of a subject-based/corralated activity, something the teacher could do is have a 1-1 conference with students, or ask them through an exit slip, about which subject is the hardest or most stressful for them. Then, keep record and during each subject in the day, refer back to this record and remind those students who are currently working on their more stressful subject, to take time to breathe and go through this activity if they feel they need it.
  • Follow up:
    • The teacher can choose from one of the many videos to watch as a class with the students. The students will watch the video and go to their desks. As a literacy exercise, you can have the students write how they’re feeling before they do the exercise. They’ll then watch the video once again, participating with the activity. The students will then return to their writing, now witing about how they feel after the exercise. This is a good literacy exercises that also helps students manage their stress
    • Teachers can also print out or make their own version of the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Grounding Method and the various others to have up in the classroom. This way it can be referenced to and students can remind themselves of the grounding techniques in times of stress.

Direct Help For Teachers

Click HERE for a resource booklet with informative steps for teachers to use.

– Description

• • This site is informational-based and helps inform of the signs to look out for with child anxiety and how to address it. There are prevention steps given along with resources that can help children control their feelings. 1-1 conversations and interactions are outlined along with a number of ways to develop your classroom to ensure students are in their most supported space.

Direct Help For Parents 

Click HERE for an informational site for parents to learn more about stress and anxiety and find resources to support their children.

– Description 

• • It can be difficult for parents to understand what steps to take when noticing symptoms of anxiety in their children. This site helps parents understand what it is their child is going through and what they can do to help them succeed. Sending home a school letter or a worksheet with the students can promote parents to study these anti-anxiety methods can help both parties develop a better understanding of how to address anxiety in the future.

Standards

• Standard 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health. Promotion and disease prevention to enhance health
  • 2.2: Identify appropriate ways to express and deal with feelings
    • HBO 1: Express feelings in a healthy way
    • HBO 2: Engage in activities that are mentally and emotionally healthy
    • HBO 3: Prevent and manage interpersonal conflict, in healthy ways
    • HBO 4: Prevent and manage emotional stress and anxiety in healthy ways
  • 2.3: Explain the relationship between feelings and behavior
    • HBO 1: Express feelings in a healthy way
    • HBO 5: Use self-control and impulse-control strategies to promote health.
    • Standard 4: Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks
      • 2.1: Demonstrate how to effectively communicate needs, wants, and feelings in healthy ways
  • Standard 8: Students will demonstrate the ability to adnovate for personal, family, and community health.