On April 24, at the Faculty of National Culture there was organized and held a training for future teachers “How to cope with exam stress” by the teachers of the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology Ibrishim L.Y., Kucheryanu S.G., Levintii G.G. and Byanova I.E.
The main purpose of the training was to get familiarized with the problem of stress and ways of coping with exam stress.
The training is held on the threshold of the summer examination session for the first- and second-year students. The idea of the training is self-discovery, analysis of personal resources and development of social competencies of students of pedagogical specialties.
In the course of the training the students familiarized themselves with the factors stimulating stress, investigated typical reactions to stress (hit, run, freeze).
An important element of the training was familiarization with coping strategies in stress management. There were investigated and scientifically proposed the ways of coping with stressful situations, based on typical strategies of stress response for a personality. In the process of work at the training there was created a portrait of a stress-resistant personality, as well as were systemized strategies of stress response at the exam (before the exam, during the exam, after the exam).
At the end of the training the students recognized that they learned a lot about stress and ways of stress response. They emphasized the importance of training before the session, admitted that they used to consider stress always as negative manifestation. In the training they found out that daily short-term stress stimulates activity, development, and leaving the comfort zone.
The work in the training stimulated students to think about how to train themselves in effective stress response.
The topic is relevant for students, future teachers, preparing for work in the sphere of person to person. This sphere is quite stressful, and only a flexible person with stress response competencies can be productive in the profession, and in personal life as well.
We wish everyone success in the exams!
