Teaching Students How to Cope with Stress
I am an English instructor and am in the process of rewriting my lesson plans for my Fundamentals of English class, which is a developmental writing course that most of our students take early on.
I already began incorporating study skills in this class by having the students take an online assessment that shows them in which areas their study skills need improvement. Then we read some material about improving. Finally, each student writes about how he/she can improve.
Are there any resources for teaching students how to cope with stress? I'd like to add this in to my course.
Thanks,
Leslie
Brooke, any particular techniques? What has to happen for you to implement them?
Good luck; hope they are useful for you and your students.
I found this to be very interesting and may try to incorporate some of these techniques into my daily lessons plans.
Thank you, Terri. I'll check them out.
Loren Kroh
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Facilitator Kroh,
Here are the three links that I use in the classroom to determine learning styles
Terri Lynn
Each one gives the student a summary of how they best learn and tips for studying!
Most definitely; the growth happens for students or chefs always and forever through sampling of the good, bad and the ugly. Without taste, we offer nothing as culinarians or educators.
Demonstration certainly is a critical part of a culinary program. Do you demonstrate (and sample) the results of doing something wrong?
I’ve found that stress inside the classroom is usually a direct result of a lack of preparation, or preparedness, on the instructor or student's behalf. Dealing with and teaching culinary students how to "sauté" for example, can be impacted positively or negatively, either by the chefs lack of proper communication verbally, or practically (cooking demo). In turn, this will have a dramatic impact on the students understanding of the topic at hand.
In this situation and always, I make sure the student understands what has transpired from a practical standpoint by watching them cook and by tasting the end result. Furthermore, if a student doesn’t comprehend the technique still, I have them practice, practice, practice. For with repetition, success is fostered and stress is limited.
Linda, how do you determine their learning style? How has this knowledge been useful to them?
Loren Kroh
The way that I have helped my students cope with stress involves providing them with tools to help them manage/cope with day-to-day life commitments.
For each of my classes I have created a "suggested study plan" that outlines the best way to tackle the course material and the amount of time that should be set aside a day to complete the work on time and retain the information needed to be successful.
In doing this, I have put myself through each week of my course as if I was a student. Knowing what is needed to successful complete each week, I break down the reading required along with reading tips, time spent communicating in discussions and emails along with prepping for the assessments.
I created these weekly study plans with knowledge of the trends of typical "A" students and "B" students that I took the time to create with data in excel spreadsheets.
It works well for students that follow them but of course you will have the students that don't bother. You have to tell yourself that you can bring a horse to water but cant make them drink. As long as you provide them with as much support to manage and cope with stress, you have done your job. I hope this helps.
Teaching students to be aware of their learning styles helps me to help them prepare for stress in our courses.
Hi Loren,
We are using the Study Skills Inventory by the University of Central Florida: http://www.sarc.sdes.ucf.edu/?id=form_studyskills_inventory.
I am not familiar with LASSI or Campus Toolkit. I will look into those. Thanks for the suggestions!
Leslie
Leslie, what online assessment are you using for study skills? LASSI? Stress management is one of the areas of focus for Campus ToolKit (www.campustoolkit.com). Contact me if you would like more information (loren.kroh@campustoolkit.com)
Loren Kroh
