Readiness of Teachers to Ensure Psychological Safety in the Context of Distance Learning

Abstract

The relevance of the study is due to the need to find ways to ensure the psychological safety of distance educational environment, as well as the lack of development of characteristics and safety indicators of the educational process during distance learning at school. The main research methods were theoretical methods aimed at creating theoretical generalizations, determining the content of teachers’ readiness to ensure psychological safety in the context of distance learning and empirical methods that identify the main components of readiness using a research methodology.The article discusses the results of a study of the readiness of teachers to ensure psychological safety in the context of distance learning in three components: a) the operational component, which is represented by communicative, constructive and gnostic skills that determine the teacher’s behavior in ensuring safe and comfortable interaction with distance learning; b) the reflexive component involves understanding the problem of safe-comfortable interaction in the context of distance learning and identifying ways to solve it based on introspection of one’s activities; c) the activity component is represented by the personal experience of the teacher in using special ways of working with students to ensure psychological safety in the distance educational environment. The conditions for teaching teachers to develop their competence to ensure the psychological safety of distance learning environments are defined: mastering the methods of organizing the educational process, ways to maintain the self-organization of the educational process, building an individual motivational system for the student and emotional support in real distance learning.