Feeling Overwhelmed.
What are the greatest challenges students face today?
9 challenges students face in school are poverty, homeless families, child abuse and neglect, bullying (including cyber bullying), violence, obesity and eating disorders, sex and pregnancy, suicide, drugs, and dropping out.
What problems will we face in 2050?
We need a serious focus on green growth, falling water tables, rising food/water/energy prices, population growth, resource depletion, climte change, terrorism, and changing disease patterns, otherwise the results may well be catastrophic.
How do you handle challenges?
Steps to handling the challenge
- Relax.
- Try to see the problem from all sides.
- Describe the problem like you’re explaining it to a friend.
- Brainstorm possible solutions.
- Make a list of good and bad points for the solutions you think are best.
- Choose one solution to try first.
