I don't know you but here is some advice from a former student with anxiety.
As I look back at my four years as being diagnosed with anxiety it can be a pain to look back and see all of my bad episodes.
If you have a student with real fears don't tell them that they are stupid. Ok if you know that they are afraid of fire drills don't say that they are stupid. Let me explain.. The start of my junior year I was in panic mode just form years of being in panic over fire drills. The one day I was asking because I was afraid of sound. So my teacher that I had for two years said something along the lines of "I don't care about your stupid fire drill." I Didn't think of it until of the next year. That was a mistake on that teacher that I now have trust issues. I felt bad for my senior year that I have had trust issues that I was so afraid of taking to my teacher that I was switch to in October 2014.
When you have a great student and you know that they have anxiety or anything, be patient for work to be done. So I was in Geometry class in my junior year. I had had a hard time doing homework, like everyone, but it was a little more difficult for me. So one day in May (Thursday to be exact) I was getting ready for a triathlon. When I was helping my guidance counselor for the trip, my special needs teacher came out in the hall and basically told me what she wrote in my agenda that I don't have my work done, so I got yelled at for not understanding the homework.
Ok let's say that they are having a panic attack and you say "this is not a game" or "act your grade/age". For one this is totally inappropriate for you to say I had herd this multiple times and it ticked me off. Second if you actually was in my head you might understand how this is inappropriate. Yes I had this by my associate mostly.
Thank you for your time reading this. Hope you are going to be awesome as a special education teacher!!
Kayla
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