Managing Pressure

How to manage pressure? Here are some tips!

Everything is going swimmingly. How will you make sure it continues that way? What techniques do you have in place to help students handle the stress that sometimes accompanies academic pressures in the upcoming days, weeks, and months? Consider trying one or more of these ideas to ward off and/or manage school stress.

• Join a “group study”

• Take help from seniors or tutor

• Utilize your professor as a resource

• Make sure to be regular in class

• Reduce social commitments & engagements

• DO NOT AVOID PROBLEM- ATTACK IT!!

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  Remember that academic success isn’t about being the best, but about giving one’s personal best. A growth mindset reminds us that growth is more important than grades. Encourage students to give themselves some grace in the grades department; if they are working hard and giving it their all, then they will make progress toward mastery. Celebrate the baby steps and focus on the journey rather than the end goal. As our students innovate and create, may they never arrive at the Land of Done. Professor and author Carol Dweck suggests that we name and claim our fixed mindsets. Open up a conversation with your students to help them see and admit what their fixed mindsets are, then give them the tools to unlock those errant thoughts and beliefs.