2025-2026 Graduate Catalog

EDUT 5379 Helping Anxious Kids Feel Safe

Helping Anxious Kids Feel Safe and Supported


Enhance your support and understanding of student anxiety through this strategies-based course. Through practical
knowledge and immediately applicable strategies, you’ll move beyond diagnoses to gain invaluable insights into the roots
of anxiety and how to support students with anxiety in the classroom. You will learn to recognize anxiety’s various
manifestations and build a classroom environment where students feel safe, secure, and ready to learn. This course
empowers you to support students with anxiety, and discover approaches that serve all students in an inclusive
environment through gratitude, plans and visual cues, mindfulness, self-regulation, teacher-led strategies, and movement.
You will complete this course with a toolbox of fantastic strategies to help students with anxiety become their best selves
at school.

Credits

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