Psychological and pedagogical support for students in the context of digitalization of the educational environment: analysis of the current state

Abstract

Digitalization of education has led to the need to develop new means of psychological and pedagogical support for modern schoolchildren, focused on the formation of key competencies in demand in a rapidly changing world. In order to identify teachers' ideas about the problems of schoolchildren and the means used to support primary school students (grades 5-8), a survey of teachers was conducted at the first stage of the study. The total sample consisted of 788 respondents and is represented by teachers with different work experience in the general education system; with different levels of education; teaching subjects that cover all subject areas. The collected empirical material is systematized using the methods of factor analysis and discourse analysis. As a result of the study, the state of the real practice of psychological and pedagogical support of students in modern schools of megalopolis and rural areas with different levels of digitalization of the educational environment is characterized; groups of problems of adolescents are systematized, which, according to the respondents, have a significant impact on their development in the conditions of digitalization of general education; it is found that teachers identify problem-solving tools and means of supporting schoolchildren in the process of solving them.The results obtained confirm the importance of the implementation of psychological and pedagogical support as the most important pedagogical means of professional activity of a teacher in the conditions of digitalization of education; they are of practical importance for the actualization of humanistic interaction between a teacher and a student in the process of joint search for solutions to problems significant for a student in a digital educational environment.