anxiety and learning

For some children who have experienced repeated failure, finding a safe, successful place to start teaching takes some time. As a teacher, I need to keep backing up to find a place where the student can feel calm and confident with the work presented. Once that place is found, we can then continue, in very small steps, to add new skills from there. Anxiety alone can prevent reception and retention of new material.

Blog Debut

Hello and welcome to the new Timothy Memorial School blog. We hope to make this a vital resource for information about our school and for information about special needs children in general. Feel free to leave your comments and share yur opinions on these pages. We look forward to hearing from you.

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