Anxiety

I CAN identify stress in my life and learn to manage it.

• Anxiety definition:
• Talk with your table and write the definition of anxiety
• Formal Definition:
• "An uncomfortable feeling of worry about something that is happening or might happen, or a cause of this.”
• Test Anxiety definition:
• Talk with your table and write the definition of test anxiety
• Formal Definition:
• “Test anxiety is defined as a fear of failing that you feel before or while taking an important examination, such as the SAT, that prevents you from performing as well as you otherwise could on the exam”
• Quickwrite
• For 2 minutes write about your experiences with anxiety
• Examples of anxiety
• Causes of anxiety
• Ways to cope with anxiety
• Thinking Traps and Test Anxiety
• Read through the thinking traps individually
• Highlight the three that you struggle with the most
• Strategies to Consider for Reducing Test Anxiety
• Star strategies you have used
• Highlight strategies that you think will help you
• These can be ones you have used or haven't used
• Put Xs next to ones you do not think will help you
• Realistic Thinking Log
• Write down 5 situations or triggers that are coming up this semester that cause anxiety
• These can be school related or not school related
• Write down your anxious or worrisome thought
• Write down realistic thoughts