Högskolan i Skövde

This study is qualitative and will show what’s causing anxiety in a class. Further it will describe how teacher’s act and how they handle when anxiety becomes a problem in the education. How can one as a teacher handle and act in to these disturbing situations? The children, who are anxious, take important time from those students who really need help in their learning. To reach our purpose participating observations were made and teachers were interviewed. The result shows what apprehends the most important aspects, namely to prevent anxiety through among other things a structural way of work and self-awareness to their own teacher’s part. The teacher’s show that they are preventing anxiety by staying calm, good planning, which means for example that teachers always have to be one step further, to be sharp and aware of their one’s own action. In the result many different approaches were discovered, some ways were foregone conclusions, but some times the teachers gave a rather surprising result. The teachers have a complex day, for that reason tools are needed to simplify and to prevent some disturbing moments so a good learning environment is encouraged.