anxiety in schools podcasts: Recent Episodes
Dr. Julie Hollitt
Wanted to learn more about behaviour and how stress and anxiety contribute to expressions of behaviour? This series is especially helpful for teaching staff, leadership staff and education officers and managers.
When teaching staff become tired and frustrated, the language around unwanted behaviour can quickly become the language of consequences. This 10 minute podcast takes a closer look at the question of consequences and behaviour with a particular focus on the social behaviour of learners with Autism.
When we work with learners in formal schooling, we are also working with developmental needs of the learner, including behavioural developmental needs. In the light of the general capabilities of the Australian Curriculum, we need more than academic skill outcomes to support our work as teachers in supporting the unmet needs of learners in behavioural development.
This podcast session considers behaviour as always occurring in relationship, and reconceptualises the idea that behaviour in formal schooling is only ever about learner behaviour.
This podcast is the final in a series of 4 podcasts (podcasts 1A, 1B & 2) under the title of Anxiety in Schools. It is not essential to have listened to the the previous podcasts, but it will add to the understandings in the prior podcasts. The main focus of this podcast is examples of multidimensional anxiety in school settings, some generalized teacher approaches, and the 'where to from here' with observing and engaging anxiety in my day-to-day work as an educator in formal schooling.
This podcast considers 'trait' anxiety, 'state' anxiety and introduces multidimensional anxiety and its relationship to human behaviour and stress in school-aged students. It tackles the trend to want to exterminate anxiety in schools rather than engage with it, and to use anxiety in our students (and its subsequent behavioural presentation) as 'teachable moments'.