Pandemic coronavirus have significantly complicated the delivery of the exam in 2020: exam date was postponed several times, and the format of the meeting are not clear yet. Against this background, students are in constant nervous stress that, say psychologists, can lead to serious consequences.
“Газета.Ru” figured out how Tutors and additional learning centers engaged with alumni in terms of isolation, than they will turn to a new rendering format.
the Main stage of the exam in 2020 will start on 3 July, the first will be the examination of the literature and geography, said the Minister of education Sergey Kravtsov. Thus, students have an additional month not only for training but also for feelings, says psychotherapist Alexander Sannikov.
“I believe that the number of nervous breakdowns and suicides among schoolchildren due unclear situation with the exam will greatly increase. This is due to the fact that children are under stress during exams, which is the response the body’s response to a problematic situation. However, under normal conditions, it is the people only benefit, as they better adapt to the events happening around them. In the case of a pandemic, which affects the exam, we get no stress, and distress — a chronic condition in which the person remains for a long time,” he said “Газете.Ru”.
According to Sannikov, distress is manifested as a result of prolonged discharge, changes in timing and other irritants and can occur without adaptation: “People are adjusted on the same date, and then everything changes, need to coordinate further plans the same University, with the new circumstances. So students now are constantly in neurotic stress.”
the Psychologist Vladimir Belov also noted that during a pandemic, all the students were knocked out of routine: school — house — street. In addition, on their shoulders fell even more responsibility they are not ready to accept.
counselor Valery Gudkov, in turn, noted that the story of the migration of the exam and the constant uncertainty significantly increases the anxiety not only of the graduates but of the whole family.
“If you want to bring people out of balance, the brutal psychological weapon is uncertainty. Of course, we were all held hostage by the pandemic, so the uncertainty is involuntary. And to support graduates must. Stress is a normal process for the psyche, but only with limited duration and intensity. To be in the stress the body is infinite cannot, by definition, so a reset anyway, go to��children. How it will happen — perhaps the most important point. If resource recovery is not enough that our graduates can go into depression that do not exactly enhance his chances of admission, explained the psychologist “Газете.Ru”.
Additional stress for the students arose and after the transfer of additional classes in remote format.
“of Course, the year 2020 has been difficult for students in grade 11 and for teachers. Since mid-March, “use-Studio” moved to distance learning. We had, for several days to rebuild the entire educational process. To purchase the necessary equipment, and test different systems online-training. Conduct a briefing for teachers” — told “Газете.Ru” the head of the center of preparation for the exam “exam-Studio” Anna Malkova.
Now all the classes there are on the platform of the Zoom. The process makes use of the interactive whiteboard, the site materials and digitized textbooks of teachers who complain about lack of time: according to them, now preparation takes 2-3 times more time than before.
“the Remote session is not a lecture, but a dialogue with students. Guys send your solutions (or answers to questions) by e-mail or WhatsApp. At the final stage of preparation for the exam is particularly effective intensive — classes for 4 hours a day during the week at the any subject or task. Now we are working in this online format,” explained Malkova.
According to the head of the center, additional problems arise from the pandemic and the teachers who had to cut wages in favor of discounts for students, whose parents cannot pay for the classes:
new format of work to rebuild and Tutors, who conducted individual and group classes at home. According to them, now all the “extras” moved to a remote format, which makes it difficult to work with children who are preparing for the exam.
it was Hard to adjust and the teacher of Russian language and literature Natalia Ivashchenko, who many years ago left school and now deals exclusively with getting the kids ready for the final exams. According to her, with the transition to remote additional sessions, the children began to lose the knowledge gained in the eyes.
“Development has become a degradation. The theory no one knows all the answers are searching online. The children even have forgotten how to write — school’s loads more writings, all print, and send jobs. It’s awful. I try to do so that they wrote by hand and sent pictures to at least once to save the situation,” explained Ivashchenko “Газете.Ru”.
According to teachers, are evident and changes in the usthree students who planned depression due of a lack of communication. And then, no matter how hard the Tutors, to bring student interest to the class out with great difficulty.
“Children are deprived of full communion, sitting down. No excitement, no competition, no required mental state they have. To cheer them, sometimes we have a little chat about random topics — otherwise, concentration on the job no” — said Ivashchenko.
the Sannikov Therapist advises you to gradually reduce the burden on the student —for example, conduct a lesson with a tutor once a week and the other days just to decide on some tests to maintain the level of knowledge.
“No need to lay more worries than necessary. Now load the opposite should be planning to reduce, rather than sitting over books day and night. It would be good to write a plan that will evenly distribute the load on the rest of the month. Thus will help reduce the stress, because there will be free time that can be spent on something more enjoyable. Bison whole month, you can only bring yourself to the point that by the time the exam out of my head lost all learned. As a consequence, small points for the exam, followed by distress and a new wave of suicides”, he explained.
Agrees with him and the psychologist Gudkov. According to her, students need to explain that living in a state of perpetual race with the preservation of a healthy mind simply will not work.
“In a modern neurotic world demands “faster-higher-stronger” sound of each iron. In the case when the stress persists for too long and the timing of discharge is not known, the motivation should be reduced. Otherwise it threatens to either a real nervous breakdown for the whole family, or by failure on the exam, even if the preparation was at the highest level,” — said counselor.
it is important to remember about the support needed by children in one of the most difficult periods of their youth, Belov said the psychologist.
“Adults in this period is more carefully and to take care of the child’s behavior. The phrase “you’re an adult already, and it’s your responsibility” or “solve his own problems” here would be inappropriate. The child in this period is most vulnerable and needs the support and understanding of an adult. At the same time, you need to respect his personal space and opinion. It is important to strike a balance,” concluded the expert.
