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Too Scared to Learn: Overcoming Academic Anxiety | 
 enlarge | Author: Cara L. Garcia
Publisher: Corwin Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 978916
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 168
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0803965346
Dewey Decimal Number: 370.1523
EAN: 9780803965348
ASIN: 0803965346
Publication Date: 1998
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Condition: Cover has very minor scratching, a small pen mark, and slight shelf sliding wear. Pages are clean and tight! ; 6.5" x 9.25"; 149 pages
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"A compassionate, well-written, practical guide for anyone who works with children." Violet Oaklander, Author, Santa Barbara, California Everybody faces academic anxiety sooner or later. How it's handled can mean the difference between doing well and failing. Help your students get over their fear of solving the problem, writing the paper, giving the speech and get on with the process of learning. Give students the tools they need to overcome the anxiety they feel in the classroom or while working one-to-one with a teacher or counselor. Make it easier for students to: * Show what they know * Set their own future learning goals * Bring any concerns they have about learning to the surface * Feel like they are part of the learning community in your classroom * Express their thoughts more openly and honestly Garcia explains academic anxiety and what causes it, and tells what its physical and intellectual effects are. The author offers strategies you can use to help propel your students past this critical hurdle. She presents different methods of intervention and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each one. This book provides examples of classroom interventions using vignettes that give you the feel of a real classroom. The vignettes illustrate ways you may be able to address the problem in your classroom. Find out how to deal with anxiety issues through units of instruction. You'll begin to frame your interactions with anxious students so that you get right to the heart of any problem without upsetting anyone. If you really want to help your students cut to the bottom line of schooling enhanced learning here is a book that has information you need.
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 Not What I Expected October 2, 2003
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I suppose this book would be somewhat helpful for a college professor, or for the college student that can't overcome his apparent inability to absorb some subjects. But it wasn't at all what I needed. As an adult, performance anxiety makes it impossible for me to perform to my full potential in front of anyone. This is a common problem for many musicians, and adults that are faced with any kind of a test situation. If you have these issues, this is not the book for you. But if you can sit down and analyze how you study and how you think while you are being taught, and be disciplined enough to psychoanalyze yourself on paper then this may be benificial. Too involved for grade school or even high school students. The first chapter wants you to write an autobiography of a typical academic anxiety situation, complete with what you thought every minute. Who remembers? I rate it about equal with "Mommy Dearest" in the reality department.
 Short, readable, amazing April 7, 1998
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
REVIEW OF TOO SCARED TO LEARN, Corwin Press, 1997, by Cara Garcia The ideas that you read about in Too Scared to Learn are elegantly simple-and highly workable, whether you are a teacher or a parent or a person who has found anxiety to interfere with what you would like to accomplish. In fact, anyone who wants to meet their goals more efficiently will find something to make them more effective-and less neurotic. Dr. Garcia focuses on overcoming academic anxiety, and, indeed, there is rich opportunity in schools to help young people get over their fears so that they may learn. Unfortunately, many teachers are not tuned in to the subtext of what their students do and say. Too Scared to Learn helps the teachers help their students-a much needed focus of teacher education. The focus on learning anxiety, though, can be somewhat misleading because it is more than that. This book can help you overcome any anxiety, part of what we found as readers to be what makes it such a powerful approach. The techniques put forth are easily adaptable to the corporate world or the personal lives of adults, and not just what happens in classrooms. Two techniques we both have used since reading Too Scared to Learn are to record the interruptions that keep us from staying concentrated on a task and then to record how long it took us to get back on task-and what worked or did not work in getting back to the "job." Just knowing you are going to track yourself helps you stay more focused, but then seeing what actually takes you away from what you want to do illuminates your weak areas. Both my partner and I have become far more productive since we follow Dr. Garcia's method of tracking our concentration, interruptions, and recovery. The second technique is to give those interrupters a voice and let them write to you. Even for those of us in California, this seemed somewhat silly, but since the first technique worked so well, we thought we would try it. Again, powerful results! We cannot praise the book or the techniques enough. Whether you are a teacher or a teacher in training, a therapist, or a corporate mogul, there is something for you in this short, readable, and amazing book, Too Scared to Learn. You won't be sorry you read it-only sorry that it wasn't available for you earlier. Elena DeVos, CEO, Words at Work Bruce Binder, CTO, Words at Work
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