Course Description

In this course, students learn specific and powerful strategies for decreasing writing anxiety and mitigating their anxiety response in the moment so that they can write successfully and with more ease. They also practice these strategies in a supported environment to solidify them and see drastic improvement in their ability to write while completing their school work.

Learning Objectives

When a learner completes this course, they will

  • Define writing anxiety in general and for themselves.

  • Practice noticing their anxiety come up without feeding it or allowing it to control their experience with writing.

Lessons

  • 1

    Get Ready

    • Welcome
  • 2

    Discover

    • What is Writing Anxiety?

    • Defining Your Own Writing Anxiety

    • Record Your Experience of Writing Anxiety
  • 3

    Taking in the Good

    • What Does It Mean, and Why Does It Matter?

    • Practice Noticing the Positive, Fun, or Interesting

    • Check Yourself
  • 4

    Cooling the Fires

    • What Does It Mean and Why Does It Matter?

    • Strategy #1

    • Practice 1

    • Strategy #2

    • Practice 2

    • Strategy #3

    • Understand Getting Ready Self-Statements

    • Write Your Getting Ready Self-Statements

    • Understand Activating Strategies Self-Statements

    • Write Your Activating Strategies Self-Statements

    • Understand Being Mindful Self-Statements

    • Write Your Being Mindful Self-Statements

    • Understand Taking Control Self-Statements

    • Write Your Taking Control Self-Statements

    • Understand Cherishing the Positive Self-Statements

    • Complete Your Self-Statements
  • 5

    Practice with Something that Doesn't Count

    • Introduction

    • Getting Ready

    • Activating Strategies

    • Do Some Writing!

    • Being Mindful - Round 1

    • Taking Control - Round 1

    • Keep Going!

    • Being Mindful - Round 2

    • Taking Control - Round 2

    • Next Step

    • Being Mindful - Round 3

    • Taking Control - Round 3

    • Finish Up

    • Cherishing the Positive

    • Reflect
  • 6

    Practice with Something That Does Count

    • Introduction

    • Check-in

    • Getting Ready

    • Activating Strategies

    • Working - Round 1

    • Being Mindful - Round 1

    • Taking Control - Round 1

    • Working - Round 2

    • Being Mindful - Round 2

    • Taking Control - Round 2

    • Working - Round 3

    • Being Mindful - Round 3

    • Taking Control - Round 3

    • Working - Round 4

    • Being Mindful - Round 4

    • Taking Control - Round 4

    • Working - Round 5

    • Being Mindful - Round 5

    • Taking Control - Round 5

    • Cherishing the Positive

    • Reflect
  • 7

    Reflect

    • Reflect on What You've Learned

    • Record What You've Learned

    • Congratulations and Keep Going!

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