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HOW TEACHERS CAN HELP STUDENTS WITH BURNOUT SYMPTOMS

2020-11-23
Education
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How Teachers Can Help Students With Burnout Symptoms

Students can often feel stressed out from strict study hours. Study stress has always been a common problem among students. However, modern learning is anything but simple. The charts that display student mental health issues are skyrocketing. The earlier tension from education has doubled over, and students keep spiraling into the never-ending circle.

2020 stats show that students are more stressed than ever. Tension could be attributed to the increasing pressure regarding learning, fast-paced learning strategies, intrusion of technology, and so on. The expectations of teachers from their students are exceeding, resulting in overworked students. Moreover, failing to fulfill teachers’ expectations can also trigger anxiety and stress among students.

Fortunately, the peeking number of stressed students can be controlled. Teachers can help students tackle their stress and put things into perspective. If you know a student who might be showing signs of stress and burnout, then you may want to take a few necessary actions. Here’s what teachers can do to help a student in distress.

Interact More

More often than not, teachers are unaware of student’s life and mental health challenges. The changing ways of modern life have drifted teachers and students apart. It has become rather common for students and teachers to engage on occasions, only when it is required. Light conversations and healthy discussions between peers and teachers have become scarce, making it challenging for teachers to remedy student problems.

If you are a teacher and you detect symptoms of stress, it is important to put all things aside and deal with the student. Try to have a face to face conversation with the stressed student and keep your mind open while you’re at it. Due to the generation gap, there are many issues you may not understand, but they could be causing mental distress to the student. Try your best to listen, fathom, and sympathize with the student.

Streamline The Work

In primary class students, class homework and workload is usually the key reason behind stress. You may want to analyze the amount of work you are assigning. If a student in higher class seems to be stressed, try to decrease the workload no matter what. Give your student some time to take a breather by introducing casual activities and lighter homework that requires less mental labor.

By decreasing workload, students will have plenty mental space to put things into perspective and deal with the stress. Try to engage your students into classroom activities that are not strictly academic, but are fruitful for mental health such as reading, storytelling, visual experiences, and so on.

Organize Weekly Discussions

Workload can be hefty for teachers as well. It is difficult to keep a hawk’s eye on every student when you have a pile of work waiting for you in the staffroom. However, being oblivious to student mental health will ruin the quality of a classroom. To prevent that, organize weekly conversation session with your classroom to stay up to date with your students. Having a day set for meetings will allow you to focus on your work without worrying about the students. This strategies is also beneficial for students as by regularly talking to students.

Learn to Let Go

Our experts believe that students tend to learn from their mistakes faster in a friendly and easy-going environment. On the other hand, when students are scared of their teachers, they hide and cover up their mistakes. Teachers may want to create an environment where learning scope for the students is much wider.

If you’re a teacher, you may want to allow your students to make mistakes and react to their mistakes in such a way that they learn from it. Save your anger and irritability for other instances, but try to go easy on students who are just trying to learn and be better!

Experiment with Strategies

Monotony and stagnancy are two biggest enemies of productivity. Students can possibly not learn in a classroom where there’s no variety in learning strategies. More often than not, teachers tend to repeat the same old methods of teaching which can be a tedious experience for the students. As a result, students eventually lose interest in the learning, which negatively impacts their overall performance in classroom.

Teachers may want to add some variation in their teaching strategies so that students learn a new thing each day. By doing so, teachers will be adding a fun twist to daily boring classroom learning reducing student stress.

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