Inspiring Tranquility: Stress Management and Learning Styles in the Inclusive Classroom

NEA Today, May 1999

Inspiring Tranquility: Stress Managemen and Learning Styles in the Inclusive Classroom. NEA Professional Library, 119 pp., $10.95, Stock #2592-6-00-F

If you have too much stress to take the time to read a stress management book, this one's for you. The authors-a teacher and a physical therapist who work in schools-have taken important findings from new research on how the brain works and created strategies that help teachers and students initiate the relaxation response in stressful classroom situations. This book combines stress management and learning styles for a unique approach to teaching in an inclusive setting. After reading just the first few chapters, you'll be able to test the easy-to-follow strategies for inspiring tranquility in your own classroom. l p 1 . ': EXCERPT The class had a variety of struggling students. Some had ADHD, some had behavior disorders and learning disabilities, some had poor attendance, and others had no support at home.... I taught them how to identify physical tension and how to alleviate or reduce it. I introduced them to learning styles and showed them how to use alternate classroom accommodations to increase their efficiency in learning. It didn't take long for most of the students to warm up to the concepts.