INTERVENTION

A special populations student struggles with

severe anxiety that hinders her academic
performance. This intervention provides the
student with paired discussion, breathing
exercises, and teacher check-ins used to reduce
anxious behaviors before an assessment and
maximize performance.

LMU-EDES 6080
LAURA WENDEL-DUMAS
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL11-12.1
Initiate and participate effectively in a range of
collaborative discussions with diverse partners on
grades 11-12 topics, texts, and issues building on others'
ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

POST INTERVENTION
Observation and analysis of anxious behaviors

PAIRED DISCUSSIONS, BREATHING

EXERCISES, TEACHER CHECK-INS
Intervention performed during class time, before an
assessment, and after class, during teacher hours.

PRE-INTERVENTION
Observation and analysis of anxious behaviors
displayed prior to completing an assessment.

Type of
Assignment

1. QUIZ
2. QUIZ
3. DBQ
4. QUIZ

Anxious Behaviors
1. Rapid talking, heavy breathing, stuttering
2. Rapid talking, heavy breathing, stuttering
3. Rapid talking, heavy breathing, stuttering, need to use bathroom
4. Rapid talking, heavy breathing, stuttering, eye twitching

Type of
Assignment

Anxious Behaviors

1. QUIZ
2. QUIZ
3. QUIZ
4. QUIZ

1. Moderate Breathing
2. Moderate Breathing
3. No signs of anxiety
4. No signs of anxiety

IMPROVED PERFORMANCE
With the intervention, the special populations
student was able to reduce her anxious behaviors.
She has also improved her oral communication
with her peers and the teacher.