Hot topic! Students and their Anxiety with Peers!

Create a Scope of Work Plan  1. Working Title Anxiety; Cause and Effect  2. Executive Summary  Anxiety; Cause and Effect is purposed to address the several of the many contributing factors which lead to students in school developing anxiety, especially in relation to how their peers view them. Some key points are students interacting with social media, dealing with cliques, and accepting themselves for who they are. Through this project, we hope to further our audience's understanding of the everyday struggle that students go through, and give them the tools so that they may help troubled students make it through their day to day functions. 3. Creative Brief Please Reference- Blog 1 4. Project Objectives  understanding the content through evidence of research  educating our peers on the social issue at hand  5. Deliverables  Working knowledge of what anxiety is Methods to help students going through anxiety 6. Treatmen...

Critically Analyze a Mentor Text  1. Who is the author and what is the purpose of this message? Author: Jonas Kolker via Ted Talk (Overcoming Anxiety)  Purpose: to shed light on what anxiety is and how it can happen to anyone at any time.   2. What creative techniques are used to attract and hold audience attention?  Personal story telling.  he uses very specific imagery to help you see his experience through his shoes.  to keep the audience attentive, he uses different tones and breaks for humor.  he uses specific facts and knowledge to help ensure that his audience understands what he is describing.  3. How might different people interpret this message differently?  Some may see it as different ways to help themselves cope with anxiety while others may take the information and use it to help others struggling with anxiety.  Some may use it as a research format about anxiety.  4. What lifestyles, ...

1. What is this project? What form will it take? What is the task at hand? we are becoming class experts on the issue of students anxiety about their social status as perceived by peers. Peer acceptance: the degree to which a child or adolescent is socially accepted by peers. Includes the level of peer popularity and the ease with which a child or adolescent can initiate and maintain satisfactory peer relationships. ( http://www.healthofchildren.com/P/Peer-Acceptance.html ) It will take the form of an interactive, creative presentation.  the task is to create a creative presentation to educate our peers on this topic.   2. Why are we doing it? What is the problem or opportunity? we are doing this to help educate our peers about the issue of students experiencing anxiety in school about their social status as perceived by peers. The 3 main topics we are going to talk about are:  Social media - Worrying about number of followers Cliques - Fear of n...