Blackboard Anxiety In Middle School

Whether people want to admit it everyone has stereotyped at one point in their life. I know I am guilty of it. This can happen without the person even knowing that they are doing it. How a person is raised and their families beliefs growing up can impact their beliefs. So one of the important questions to answer is does being stereotyped have a lasting impact beyond the moment when it happens? A study by science news in 2010 showed that stereotyping does have a lasting effect on that person, (Science News, 2010). People do not forget and this can cause damage in their lives and their future decisions. For example, my cousin became pregnant by an African American as a teenager. She was shunned by certain people in my family, including her father. My grandmother without thinking or meaning to offend the only African American in my small home town told the man that she had a little mulatto (mixed) great grandchild. Her vocabulary was due to how she was raised and taught the biased word.

Have you ever been a victim of stereotyping? Stereotyping is when people think something wrong or good .Like “all girls need to stay in the kitchens” that is an example of stereotyping.There was a time i felt stereotyped just because of my color.

Have you ever been stereotyped? What a stereotype is a saying of things people think that all of a race does. For example that all white men are wealthy or all mexicans are working in a garden those are examples of stereotypes. A time i was stereotyped when i was small that all mexican wont pass high school but i want to prove them wrong.

I asked a few of the common questions, as well as the rest of the students in my class, and the answers were the ones I expected. We then gathered our information on our surveys. I observed that a very small amount of students here on campus didn’t feel comfortable stating their gender because of what people might say. We have different students with different races at this school. Some students can even get stereotyped because of their race. Out of all the people at the Dinuba High School campus that took the survey, 59% of them stated that they noticed that stereotypes occur more often outside of class. Believe it or not, some students also observed that others can even get stereotyped at home, with their family! The most common way that people respond to a stereotype is by ignoring it. 46.7% of the people being stereotyped rather stay quiet and pretend like nothing is going on because they fear what will happen if they try to do something about it.

Have you ever been stereotyped? In most cases, the answer would be yes. The thing is, we are all guilty of it. At one point or another, we’ve stereotyped another person we have seen or know. A stereotype is defined as making a generalization of a group of people based on the actions of a few. People will generalize you based on your race, religion, ethnicity, and age.

Throughout my high school career, a huge education barrier I had to overcome was test anxiety. Every time I was about to take any kind of test, I always felt agitated. However, as I progressed in to higher grade levels, tests became tougher and weighed more. Test anxiety was a very frustrating obstacle because I always aimed for high grades and high test scores. I was always a perfectionist on the assigned work but when it came to the tests, I struggled, and my nervousness grew. After a few tests, I realized I had to come up with an answer to my problem.

Ever been stereotyped? Of course you have. Stereotyping can be a problem for millions of people all around the world, but with a little help we can stop it. There are many different types of ways to get stereotyped. For example gender, physical/economical looks, race/religion. Those are just the three i have came up with, their are many more.

During this course, we have all been exposed to new ideas and ways of thinking in regards to statistics. Many of us realized that we use statistics every day, yet never thought of it in that terminology. This would be my first take-away from this course. I have learned that everything that occurs around me can be viewed statistically. From the number of treats I give my German Shepherd to the amount of mileage I put on my tires before needing to replace them. I had statistics in my undergraduate degree and the mere thought of the word sent shivers down my spine. I have never been a math person and the idea of having to take a math course of this level in order to graduate terrified me. Twenty years later and I had to take yet another more advanced statistics course. Terrified did not even describe the feeling I had. This course was not what I expected it to be. I have recalled terminology long ago buried in my brain and I have grasped skills that will serve me in my future endeavors. The approach to this course, with the open communication with the professor and the coach, has been a great asset. I no longer fear statistics.

In studies at our school about 40% of people didn’t believe in stereotypes with 80% believing that it will affect their academics but doing some online research bloggers alongside school administrators will say it greatly affects one who is stereotyped

Through my high school career, my gender and the stereotyped expectations associated with being female affected my academic career. The classes I took and teachers that taught them were affected by gender. Our science and math departments were heavily male dominated, while the teachers in our English and fine arts departments were mostly women. There were also trends in the gender of the students who registered for different classes. When I took macroeconomics my junior year, I was one of four girls in our thirty student class.

Imagine you're being told you're not smart or less attractive because of your race. How would this make you feel? This is what it is like to be stereotyped. We stereotype to make sense of the world’ it's in our nature as humans even though it's wrong to judge someone before meeting them. I'm going to tell you a story of how I was unfairly stereotyped at my high school. I was 17 years old at the time and I have a fiery competitive spirit so I decided to join the trivia team at my high school.

Tet anxiety is a very common thing among American students, especially for those whore are in higher education. This type of anxiety causes psychological tension that students experience before taking test. In the moment of test anxiety students have a strong feelings of failure that is followed by panic and stress pressure. Apparently many studies have showed that test anxiety often causes students to perform worse on the exam. "Test anxiety: Why it is increasing and 3 ways to curb it" by Valerie Strauss and " Anxiety, Self-Efficacy, and College Exam Grades" by Jennifer Barrows, Samantha Dunn, Carrie A. Lloyd are popular and scholarly articles that discuss test anxiety in US higher education and how it disadvantages students.

After much research I have gathered a variety of information to help me my research question of, how does anxiety impact students performance in school? Anxiety is a subjective feeling of tension, apprehension, nervousness and worry (International Conference Mathematics Education Research 2010). There are many ways in which students can come to have anxiety, impacting them while in school. I have learned that there are many things that can cause students to become anxious. When a student becomes anxious it affects their performance in school and impacts their grades heavily. These anxieties can change a student's emotional response towards school and they respond differently in certain scenarios compared to other students. Some of these anxieties within schools can be language anxieties, test anxieties, and other anxieties toward school subjects or just school in general.

One example of how school portray gender stereotypes is male teachers think that it is impossible to reach out to their girl students so they don’t try. (Sexism and Gender Stereotypes, McClary) This is shows how teachers portray gender stereotypes at school. This shows that people feel they can only connect with their gender. Another way in which school portrays gender stereotypes is how girls who think math is a guy thing are more likely to be bad at math. (Girls Are... Boys Are... : Myths, Stereotypes & Gender Differences, Storo) This shows that this stereotype is wrong girls could be very good at math but they don't try because people say it is just for men. This sikes girls out and jinks them. Lastly is the quote “Sex is not a good predictor of academic skills, interests or even emotional characteristics.” (Girls Are... Boys Are... : Myths, Stereotypes & Gender Differences , Storo) This quote is an example of how people should view all genders. This quote can help people realize that everyone is and should be equal. These are a few examples of how gender stereotypes are in school. Next I will tell you another place where gender stereotypes are

Gender stereotypes run ramped in social institutions and schools are no exception. It is common to hear “Jenny will be good with children one day she’s so loving and caring”, as well as “Tom is so confident, he will make a great leader.” Is there something wrong with this? There is nothing wrong with Tom being a leader and Jenny being a great mother, but it creates a stereotype that leaves a large impression on children.