Child Stress Therapy

Lack of space, noise and temperature could cause issues with pupil’s attention span. These can be rectified by finding any alternative space, to both increase stimulation and reduce noise, also reducing or increasing temperature by controlling the classroom windows.

5. Why is it critical for a parent to be involved in their children’s education?

The STAAR test creators can find a way to help them or change the test in a way that will make it less stressful. Remember we could just take shorter challenging tests and then the students won’t have to worry about failing and won’t suffer anymore.

Share any information that may be useful in assessments made regarding the child’s needs and circumstances.

Always be prepared for the children to ask questions, giving a suitable reply can help on how a child

Hyperactivity/short attention span – allow time to complete a task so if your student needs 2-3 movements breaks during a activity allow that it could be as simple as getting a drink, eating a snack, going for a walk, then come back to the

First of all, these tests can immensely stress the kids out over time. The stress of the tests can grow into an anxiety over the course of tests. When the time catches up with them the stress of failing or not being good enough for their parents can overwhelm them when testing causing them to do poorly or causing anxiety. Another

Your child's study area should be cleaned and organized with extra school supplies for homework purposes.

Don’t ask your child questions to which you know the answer and might be tempted to lie. For example, instead of saying “Did you clean your room?” it is ideal to let them know “I notice you didn't clean your room. Let’s work on a solution together”. The last but not least step five was to focus

First This paragraph will explain how the tests are stressful.Parents make their kids drop out.Kids may come home crying that they don't want to take the test as they think they will fail. Another thing is that it's No fun during the year of learning.The teachers have to teach the test. Now that you learned test are stressful.

The student should not bring anything to school that could cause distraction. She should not do anything that will be distracting and set goals for herself. Gabbi should give herself one big goal and small goals leading up to that big goal. She needs someone accountable, like a teacher or other students, to help her meet these goals.

Sitting together with their parents helps they feel more secured. Gaining their trust and using their language like “sore, hurt, ouch” would help with the questions. Using dolls and puppets to demonstrate the assessment would also be a good tool to gain their trust. Ask easy questions about their age, class, teacher to start the conversation and then to proceed with the assessment. Ask the kids to show their hands and feet first, because they like to show their feet and hands according to Jarvis, 2016. Explain to the child what you are going to do before you touch him. This will decrease his anxiety and facilitate the visit.

realise that a child is quiet at the time. It is important for practitioner to be truthful to children and

‘During the winter term, my children were expected to complete yet another set of exams to assess their progress so far. Commonly referred to as assessment week amongst staff, regular subject lessons were abandoned to cater for the conduction of the exams. During the first day, it came to my attention that one of my students was absent and would consequently miss their exams. I approached my key stage leader on the issue and they instructed me to complete the papers with the student when they returned. The week progressed

During the pre-test assessment, I clearly noticed that I had not done my job as an educator when trying to find the appropriate pre-test assessment. I noticed right away that there were way too many questions on the page for my student to concentrate. After watching my student fidget and lose focus on what she was working on, it became clear to me that she was becoming overwhelmed by the number of problems on the page. It was when I realized that I decided to reduce the number of problems that she had to complete from nine to five. Nevertheless, despite reducing the number of pre-test assessment problems and the fact that this student is extremely smart for her grade and age along with already having worked on counting money in her classroom, she still missed three of the five pre-test assessment questions.