Fear And Its Impact On Learning

As soon as I walked into the building that my class was at, I started to get a little more nervous because I didn’t want to walk in a wrong class room. When I got to the classroom door outside I open it and walked in. Minutes later I realized I was in the wrong class room. I walked back outside, I re-read the number and walked a different way. After walking in the wrong class room gave me even more fear because I didn’t want to repeat the same situation again. All that reminded me back in high school going in the wrong class as well. The fear of having it happened twice gave me fear to go to my other classes because I didn’t want it to repeat again. All this fear was now coming in stronger but had to get

In the essay, “The Student Fear Factor’’, Rebecca Cox , I will be writing about on how one of the students that relates to me on her personal life experiences. Some college students find strategies to manage their fear on their first year of college because they feel nervous about on how are they going to do at college. College students feel sometimes they have concerns about not reaching their goals in life , not passing their courses, or afraid of life. The student that relate to me was Melanie because she recent graduate from high school and she enrolled in college. Melanie was a college student that attended at Lake shore community college. Melanie and I have similar situations that she went through her life. She was a full-time student and had four courses that was taken at her college. Melanie and I have both in common that attended a community college , taking for course , recent graduated from high school, and first semester of college.

Confusion is often seen as a trail of thought that leads to unfavorable situations, and a majority of people like myself do not appreciate being confused. When I was in algebra one day, we were learning about transformations in functions, and my mind had not fully absorbed that information as if the concept was like a mist of fog. Thus, the information had left me in a profound confusion where I was unable to comprehend the lesson. The public often views teachers as unprofessional and inexperienced if they left their students with hesitation, but this is not the case due to the ability to learn is all within the student, not the teacher. I admit that at the time, I was irritated and frustrated at how my teacher had taught the lesson because I was convinced that the method she used to teach the class was ineffective. Rather, the most important lesson was that I had learned how confusion was part of the learning experience. Confusion is something that everyone encounters at some point in their life because our brains do not always understand a concept on the first try, and Ethan Canin is trying to confess that confusion helps the mind develop.

Children may feel apprehensive about any changes no matter how small these may be. Children generally feel apprehensive of the unknown. Such changes may include moving home, moving into a new setting etc. The worries children have will range from being simple worries such as where the toilets are located or more complex worries such as bullying etc. If any of the worries of a child are not recognised and addressed by a practitioner then this may directly impact and affect a child’s learning and development.

If you mess up, then you have no one to blame but yourself. That also teaches you how to take responsibility for your actions because you are the only one who did that specific action.

It has been argued that some people think that making mistakes are a key part in discovering something because of the learning process. When making mistakes, you almost always learn something from them. For example, if someone does not study for a test and they fail it, then they will learn to study next time. In the text it said, “We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made

She believes that if failing a student is reintroduced into classrooms that it could be the answer to the problem of the declining education system. Sherry uses examples of students from her night-class, insisting, “They are motivated by the desire for a better job or the need to hang on to the one they’ve got. They have a healthy fear of failure” (521). Currently, there are several teachers that won’t actually fail a student, and of course the students are aware of it, so it is inescapable that a student would not try as hard. Nonetheless, if flunking a subject is slowly implemented, then perhaps there will be an increase in participation and full understanding of the subjects.

In this essay I will talk about “The Student Fear Factor,” by Rebecca Cox, In the passage she talks about first time college students, and what they experience in their first year of college. I will be choosing a student from the essay, and explain what they encounter. I will also explain how I can relate to them. Rebecca cox talks about first time college students and how they find their first year of college really stressful.

Dr. R.W. Rogers created the Protection Motivation Theory in 1975. He proposed this theory to explain the effects of fear and how they can affect behavior. Rogers explained that fear initiates a cognitive process where the person takes into account a threat appraisal and a response appraisal which results in an adaptive or maladaptive behavior. Much of his work was based on Richard Lazarus and Howard Leventhal’s work on how people cope with fear. Their work focused on fear reaction divided into two processes: danger control (threat appraisal) derived from environmental cues and fear control (coping appraisal) an internal process. Rogers created the first three constructs of PMT based on environmental cues. They are referred to as threat

You can make mistakes and learn how to correct them and make the situation better. Mistakes are key to discovery whether it may be about science or something new. For the most part, mistakes are usually frowned upon, by your parents, teachers, and your friends. That does not signify mistakes are horrible.

Failure is a word that covers all aspects of education to a student. But when does the failure begin? Some say it starts at home with parents and some say it begins in the classroom with teachers. In Mary Sherry’s essay “In Praise of the F Word” she states that countless students do not have the skills they need to succeed. This can be very influential with education now a day. Educators and parents often praise students for simply showing up to class instead of praising those who work hard. Are we doing justice to the children of our future? No! We need to stop treating failure as our worst enemy and instead, embrace it with a positive attitude. Failure can show students where they went wrong and trying to fix it is the first part of success.

I worry a lot. I worry about you and me. I’m worried because I want to go to a very good college but, school is hard. I put so much work into my academic studies and I feel like I get nothing out of it. I want to be very successful in life but, I’m worried that I would be able to get the chance to do the career I want to do. I also worry too much about sports. I want to play sports in college but I’m worried that I’m not good enough or won’t reach the college’s standards. I also worry about getting hurt. I’ve gotten hurt in gymnastics many time which makes me afraid to go for new skills. I’m just worried about getting another injury. Sometimes I want to quit because I worry too much which affects my performance. When I walk through the hallway

My worries about college are more in how well I will do in higher level classes and if I’ll be able to help my Family during my time in College. As a First Generation college student, I feel like my family has so much trust and high expectations for me to do well in College and graduate. I don’t feel pressured even if my family does expect a lot from me. I worry about many things like money, time, family, friends, school, and etc. I don’t worry about fitting in because I can get by with only focusing on myself and not caring about what other people think like whether they accept me or not for who I am and who I’m not. I have never had the feeling of not belonging because I’ve gone to schools where the students are not so different from me so we would all understand each other and didn’t care if someone was poor or rich, we respected and treated each other fairly. Up until High School I worry that the transition to college will be a bit challenging but nothing that I can’t handle.

Fear is a feeling created in a response to a perceived danger. Fear can produce pleasure, heighten awareness, be in the form of phobia, a fear of the unknown and an instinctual response to danger.

Everyone, at some point in their life, has made a mistake. Sometimes we get lucky and only falter a little, making it through the problem relatively intact. Other times, we mess up a lot and have to fix what was damaged over a long period of time. However, the same is true for most, if not all cases—those who make the mistake learn from it. Often times, our failures teach us valuable lessons that we only gained because of the experience we gathered after messing up. I have personally achieved a wealth of knowledge and experience just from all of my own little mishaps, and a few major ones.