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Supporting Children with Anxiety: Understanding Emotional Needs and Resources

This training session focuses on understanding how anxiety affects children and equipping teachers with the skills to support students who experience it. By recognising the signs and behaviours of anxiety—such as avoidance, fidgeting, and difficulty concentrating—teachers will be better prepared to offer the right support.

Participants will explore strategies to create a calm and safe learning environment. This training will help teachers reflect on their own practices, fostering teacher-student relationships that reduce anxiety and support emotional well-being.

The training will also introduce the biological and scientific reasons for anxiety, including the concept of the “caveman brain” and how its fight-or-flight response has been heightened in today’s fast-paced, stress-filled society. Teachers will learn how this impacts children’s emotions and behaviours in the classroom. Non-verbal communication techniques and approaches for managing student work output with an emphasis on effort will be covered, helping teachers build supportive environments where anxious children can thrive.