Strategies for Test Anxiety?
Tumblr teachers—anyone have any good strategies for helping older students (late high school/early college) deal with severe test anxiety? Reply/reblog/submit if you have advice to share!
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Stereotype threat was something I came across once in an article about a year ago—if I was still teaching, I think a text on this could be a valuable piece to read in class. I had primarily minority students, but I think this could be a relevant issue to any struggling student.
I do think one of the best ways to proactively lessen test anxiety is to increase the rigor of your day-to-day lessons. I don’t mean teach to the test, necessarily, but if you’re, say, letting kids use their notes all the time in class and on your own tests, they’re obviously going to freak out a bit when they all of a sudden don’t have access to those things on an AP or SAT test.
