Focus on the Shy and Anxious Child

35 Pages·2013·0.78 MB·English

Focus on the Shy and
Anxious Child
With Meryl Silver
April 17, 2013
Our Guest:
Meryl Silver, MS.Ed, received her bachelor’s degree in Early
Childhood Education from Queens College and holds a master’s
degree in Special Education from Bank Street College of Education.
Meryl has close to 15 years of teaching experience, including four
years as a resource room teacher at Yeshiva Har Torah and three
years as a learning specialist for P’tach at the Yeshiva University High
School for Girls. She has also worked as a co-facilitator for Schools
Attuned and is a graduate of the SAFDA program. Meryl has also
served as a Hidden Sparks External Coach at the Yeshiva of Central
Queens and Shaare Torah Elementary School for boys. Meryl was
recently hired by Teach NYS to coordinate a High School Academic
Resource Center project which aims to help families access special
education services for struggling students in Jewish high schools.

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Overview of the Session
This session will present information
that will enable teachers to help
students who struggle with anxiety.
We will aim to teach teachers how to
recognize signs of anxiety in their
students and to develop interactive
scripts that will address the problem
constructively.
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Session Goals:

• Heighten teacher awareness of the classroom experience
for the shy or anxious student

• Present systematic approach for responding to the needs of
anxious students

• Offer suggestions as to how teachers can modify instruction
for students who struggle with anxiety

• Destigmatize students who present as anxious or shy

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Labeling is Disabling
• Retitling webinar: Exploring
Strategies to Support Children who
Struggle with Shyness and/or
Anxiety

• Brief Moment to Distinguish Between
Shyness and Anxiety
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True or False?

The majority of adults with an anxiety
disorder report that their symptoms
began in childhood.
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True or False?

The majority of children with anxious
parents develop an anxiety disorder.
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True or False?

The majority of children who
experience trauma develop an anxiety
disorder.
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True or False?

If a panic attack gets too intense, the
sufferer is likely to pass out.
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True or False?

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is
an empirically supported effective
treatment for many anxiety disorders.
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