Toward Effective Teaching: What Teachers Need to Know About Anxiety and Bipolar Disorder

Abstract

The current dynamic societal changes increase stress and depression. COVID-19 pandemic, though, creates an uncertain atmosphere in classrooms. Therefore, students and teachers experience many mental health disparities. Despite the expanded discussions about students, and teachers’ well-being, there is a dire need to resolve the understanding of the mental health issues among the learning and teaching communities. For effective teaching, educators should be aware of learners’ psychological and psychosocial changes related to the development of autonomous personal life. For learning progression, students must cope with the academic and social demands they could encounter in schools and their professional careers. Covid-19 raised many psychological and sociological challenges that shaped developing systems and intervention methods that prevent or at least reduce the collateral mental problems such as anxiety and depression. This article attempts to portray the learners’ mental instability during the Covid-19 pandemic and then discusses some teaching tools that lead to controlling the disruption in the educational industry. It introduces anxiety and depression among learners to increase educators’ awareness of the symptoms and the pedagogical tools to guide their students properly. It also reports some easy-to-follow pedagogical strategies to assess and control students’ anxiety and depression in learning environments.