- Connect them with supportive people and the kind of content that lifts them up.
- Encourage them to involve in physical activities and develop positive relationship with each other through group work and collaborative tasks.
- Help them explore ways to handle stress and manage it positively.
- Make sure that they aren’t over worked or too tired while studying.
- Encourage them to do things that make them happy. For older students this may be easy to teach but to the younger ones, this will take some work but isn’t impossible.
Helping Students with Emotional problemsIt is the responsibility of the teacher to monitor the student behavior and if she or he feels that something is not on the right track, he must work to find out the reason and work towards solving that.
Understand the different kinds of problems
When there is a learning misbehaving in the class, immediate response would be to make him stop. Hat is fine and natural as long as the means of stopping him or her are gentle. Next rational step is to find out the cause of the problem.
To find out and help your learner deal with the emotional problems, it is important to know the signs that indicate that there may be a problem. There can be two kinds of problems, one that is from the outside and another that is from within. If a teacher knows the symptoms, reaching to the solution and relevant help will not be so difficult.
Signs that there may be serious emotional problemsThere are two kinds of emotional problems, one that the person feels from the inside and the other is due to something external. But there are always signs for both of them.
Internal problems:
- Student feels alone and separate from others, he isolates himself
- Is to dependent on others
- Seems too helpless all the time
- Is usually a bully victim
- Cries too often and abuses himself
- Does not appear too often and is usually ili
External problems
- Is not disciplined, does not let the class follow rules
- Exhibits lack of empathy
- Poor academic performance but it doesn’t bother the student much
- Usually shows problems with being directed or shown how to do something
- Bullies others
- Becomes aggressive and impulsive
How to Help:
Since the symptoms are clear and now you can understand that the student is showing an emotional challenge rising for him, and you can also tell by the signs what kind of problem he is in, you can help him or her appropriately. First of all be sure to not isolate him and let him feel that there may be a problem, just you being aware is enough. He or she must not know that there may be something wrong with him and that he needs help.
Relevant Learning
Let him know that his performance makes a difference and set immediate rewards and results. He needs to know that something he did is awesome and he should feel good immediately rather than waiting for a long period to find out. Due to emotional distress there may be a decline in grades so help him cope with that.
Help establish and maintain positive relationship Amongst peersGroup activities and activities in pairs work best for students of any age group. They should learn to cooperate with each other and they should feel that they have somebody supporting them and working with them. Apart from lengthy written work sessions that may be a part of your lesson plan or curriculum, there should be a time when the teacher and students sit in a circle and everyone takes their turn in talking about anything.
Behavior Management Skills Modify your activities in consideration with that is needed. If you know a problem, you as a teacher should be able to predict the student and understand his moves and reasons behind it. Avoid the activities where something has a chance of happening.
Deal with depression and identify it Some tiny investments are being extra polite with deadlines, giving pupils extra time to finish their work and be gentle with them wherever possible. Apart from that, understand that they can’t switch the depression off in a jiffy, you have to show compassion and patience and understand to have them realize that you are there and it is all okay.
Fight stress Stress is a good cause for depression. If a student often complains of sickness then he must be checked with a physician so discuss with school authority to help him out. Also, see if a student really is too tired and allow them breaks to leave them going home happily.
Teach them Hope They may not like being told what to do all the time but whenever there is a window, teach them hope. They must know that situations change and so do people. Whatever bothers them today will be gone and feeling too sad or low for something that is temporary is not going to help.
Since the symptoms are clear and now you can understand that the student is showing an emotional challenge rising for him, and you can also tell by the signs what kind of problem he is in, you can help him or her appropriately. First of all be sure to not isolate him and let him feel that there may be a problem, just you being aware is enough. He or she must not know that there may be something wrong with him and that he needs help.
Relevant Learning
Let him know that his performance makes a difference and set immediate rewards and results. He needs to know that something he did is awesome and he should feel good immediately rather than waiting for a long period to find out. Due to emotional distress there may be a decline in grades so help him cope with that.
Help establish and maintain positive relationship Amongst peersGroup activities and activities in pairs work best for students of any age group. They should learn to cooperate with each other and they should feel that they have somebody supporting them and working with them. Apart from lengthy written work sessions that may be a part of your lesson plan or curriculum, there should be a time when the teacher and students sit in a circle and everyone takes their turn in talking about anything.
Behavior Management Skills Modify your activities in consideration with that is needed. If you know a problem, you as a teacher should be able to predict the student and understand his moves and reasons behind it. Avoid the activities where something has a chance of happening.
Deal with depression and identify it Some tiny investments are being extra polite with deadlines, giving pupils extra time to finish their work and be gentle with them wherever possible. Apart from that, understand that they can’t switch the depression off in a jiffy, you have to show compassion and patience and understand to have them realize that you are there and it is all okay.
Fight stress Stress is a good cause for depression. If a student often complains of sickness then he must be checked with a physician so discuss with school authority to help him out. Also, see if a student really is too tired and allow them breaks to leave them going home happily.
Teach them Hope They may not like being told what to do all the time but whenever there is a window, teach them hope. They must know that situations change and so do people. Whatever bothers them today will be gone and feeling too sad or low for something that is temporary is not going to help.