Classroom Checklist – How Grief may appear in the classroom

 

The following list is related to three specific areas: Anxiety, changed behaviour and changes in academic progress.

 

Anxiety:

 

ü     Worry

ü     Fear

ü     Tension

ü     Unhappiness

ü     Unsettled

 

Changed behaviour:

 

ü     Swings in mood

ü     Unpredictable

ü     Irritable

ü     Out of character behaviour

ü     Inability to concentrate

ü     Withdrawn

ü     Distant

ü     Aggressive

ü     Unable to communicate

ü     Truancy

ü     Lying

ü     Stealing

 

Changes in Academic progress:

 

ü     Regression to previous level

ü     Loss of skills

ü     Reluctance to communicate

 

(from Brown, E. 1999,  Loss, Change, and Grief: an Educational Perspective. London: David Fulton Publishing. p.106)