3-Credits • UMass Global • Beyond the Surface: Recognizing, Understanding, and Supporting Students with Anxiety
Registration Fee ($165) + UMass Global Fee ($210) = Total Fee ($375)
Course Description:
Unlock the tools to better understand and support students with anxiety. This self-paced, quiz-based professional development course is designed for PK-12 educators who want to create a compassionate, supportive, and calm classroom environment where all students can thrive.
What You’ll Learn:
- Recognizing Anxiety in Students: Identify key symptoms of anxiety and understand how it impacts learning, behavior, and classroom dynamics.
- Effective Support Strategies: Develop actionable approaches to help students manage anxiety and succeed, both academically and socially.
- Creating a Safe Environment: Learn how to foster a classroom culture that reduces stress and promotes emotional well-being.
Why Educators Choose This Course:
- Deeper Understanding: Gain insights into the root causes of anxiety — and how to address them effectively.
- Practical Tools: Walk away with proven strategies you can implement immediately in your classroom.
- Flexible Learning: Self-paced, online content designed to fit your schedule and your stress-free PD needs.
Empower Every Student:
This course equips you with the knowledge and skills to go beyond the surface, offering meaningful support to students with anxiety. By addressing their needs with empathy and evidence-based practices, you’ll make a lasting difference in their academic and emotional success (and make your job a little easier along the way).
Enroll Today!
Take the first step toward building a more emotionally inclusive and supportive classroom. Join us now and transform how you connect with — and empower — your students.
Self-Paced, Quiz-Based, and Completely Online:
Forget portfolios or lengthy written assignments — this is stress-free PD designed with YOU in mind. With no start dates and no due dates, you can begin and finish the course whenever it is convenient for you. Plus, you do not need to be working with students to complete it. Entirely self-paced and self-guided, there are no scheduled check-ins, so you are free to work on the content whenever and wherever you want.
3 Graduate-Level PD Credits for DOE Educators across the U.S.!
Upon completion of this course, participants will receive 3 graduate-level PD credits from the University of Massachusetts Global, which can be used for professional advancement such as salary increment steps and licensing requirements.
Aloha, Hawai'i State DOE educators!
3-PD Credits: Just like our other courses in partnership with UMass Global and CSU Pueblo, this course also results in 3-PD credits towards HIDOE salary step movement/reclassification.
✶ Hawai'i State DOE participants: If you are a Hawai'i State DOE participant, please be sure to receive signed principal approval for any university coursework that will be applied towards reclassification by using the 200-005 Form (click here). Also, every year in January, HawaiiUSA Federal Credit Union typically begins providing PD support stipends to reimburse Hawaii State DOE educators for their professional development fees accrued throughout the year. For more information about this fantastic opportunity, click the following link: The HawaiiUSA Professional Support Stipend.
Information about PD-Credits for Hawaii State DOE participants:
Hawai'i State DOE educators can use these graduate-level PD credits in place of Learnsoft-issued PD credits (formerly PDE3-issued credits) for salary step movement in the HIDOE Teacher Reclassification system. Please note that this graduate-level PD course is not available through the HIDOE Learnsoft system. Since these are graduate-level PD credits, coursework will only be reviewed by UMass Global instructors and does not require submission to Learnsoft for further review.
Upon completion, 3-PD credits will be issued directly by UMass Global. For more details on using university or college credits for salary reclassification, please refer to the Hawai'i State DOE "Guidelines for Reclassification" memo: click here.
If you are a Hawai'i State DOE educator, please download and print the 200-005 Form for university credits, and have it signed by your school's Principal. To apply your 3 graduate level PD-credits to salary step movement, you can simply submit your 200-005 form to the DOE's Reclassification Unit, along with your UMass Global transcript, once you complete the course. We have completed the course information for you on this form and it can be downloaded and printed with this link: click here.
This course is open to participants nationwide!
To enroll in this course:
Start by completing the $165 registration using the banner link at the top of this page. That will create your For Teachers By Teachers (FTBT) account and give you immediate access to the online classroom. You can begin anytime and work at your own pace.
✶ Want 3 graduate level PD credits through UMass Global?
Inside the classroom, you’ll find simple step-by-step instructions for UMass Global’s separate $210 credit registration process ($70 per credit). Everything you need — including the direct link, course code, and payment instructions — will be available after you enroll. You're welcome to wait until you've completed the course to make this payment.
University credit issued by UMass Global – a regionally accredited university partner.
Your Course Instructor
For Teachers By Teachers is a highly dedicated team of licensed educators with professional certifications across grades PK–12. Our areas of expertise include Special Education, Childhood Education, Art Education, and Reading Specialist certifications.
Collectively, our course authors and instructors bring more than 20 years of experience in the field of education. We are passionate about empowering teachers and have contributed meaningfully to school communities in Hawai‘i, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Ohio.
Our mission is to support your professional growth with flexible, high-quality online courses designed by teachers—for teachers. If you have any questions or need support, don’t hesitate to contact us at [email protected]. We’re here to help!