From time immemorial, it was believed that learning is a little controlled or completely uncontrolled process. Many teaching methods and schools were based on the principle of carrot and stick, which is not welcome today, because it is considered obsolete and ineffective. And in many cases in modern pedagogy, correction is almost the only way to achieve the desired result.
Psychology and pedagogy in Russia
In relation to the market of Western psychological services, we can say that the standardization and licensing of psychologists have put things in order. In the USA, psychological correction is a fairly developed structure where psychoanalysts, gestalt psychologists and coaches know their job responsibilities and the rights and duties of their clients. In Russia, a “friend with an hourly wage” is considered to be a psychologist, who, maybe, will help, but maybe not ...
“Adult” psychology: are we mistaken when choosing a psychologist?
Conventionally, psychologists can be divided into many profiles. However, for a better perception of the material in this article, it is better to adopt a simple classification and proceed from the fact that there are specialists “adults” and “children”. Dividing them into two groups makes it easier to talk about working with two categories of people. These, respectively, are independent and responsible for their actions (adults), and non-independent (children) individuals. To understand what a psychologist should do for a particular category of clients, and what should not do, we will consider the most common reason for the appeal.
Many life leads to such a situation when a person begins to believe that he himself will not be able to cope with his problems, whether it be stress, unrequited love or even financial difficulties. That is why many people think that psychological correction is a kind of cure for failure. Adults who seek help from a psychologist expect to receive, so to speak, a visual “aid” that demonstrates how to achieve success in life. However, the system of market relations predetermines failures in trips to such specialists. The fact is that we are already accustomed to the state of things, which can be described by the phrase: "Paying money - getting the goods." The product in this case is a psychological balance, which leads to stress relief, the solution of any problems. Many people think that this is the same medicine, “a product for the soul,” for which you should consult a specialist. If many people consider this a means of achieving their goals, then they are doing it right!
Correction is ... a product?
"In a healthy body healthy mind!" Psychologists interpret the motto of athletes as follows: “If there was a healthy mind, the body would also recover.” And physiologists will at all give out the universal: "Everything is interconnected." And, surprisingly, among these specialists of various kinds of activity there are no wrong ones. But if everything is so extremely simple and clear, then why are there so many people today who are dissatisfied - and quite justifiably - with their figure? Or having psychological problems?
The answer is simple: buying these two things is not so simple. For example, having come to the gym, the majority expects rapid progress and, having not received it, leaves home. The same situation with the market of psychological services: we expect too much from our psychologist, while forgetting to rely on ourselves, overcome laziness, the pain of truth and a sense of pride. So figure correction, as well as correction of development, is a two-way process. Here we need returns both from the specialist and from the client.
And it often happens like this: when a psychologist puts a person before the fact that he will have to solve problems himself, many conclude that the specialist is incompetent. But in fact, it turns out that he has no right to interfere in our personal lives, and the responsibility for solving problems remains with the applicant.
If the customer is not responsible
The situation is different for psychologists working with preschool and school contingents. Pedagogical correction is a kind of interaction process, where there are no longer two (adult-psychologist), but as many as three links (parent-child-psychologist). Corrective education is considered a progressive method in the process of assimilation of new material by a child. The essence of the methodology is not in the correction of only one material, as in the case of tutoring classes, but in its analysis, taking into account the cognitive characteristics and abilities of the child. And then follows the presentation in a convenient form for the student. Moreover, this paradigm is applicable both to the natural sciences / humanities and to information transmitted through education in general.
Competition among children
The demand for pedagogical services is due to many factors. But the main one is to help the child catch up or overtake peers in development. No matter how tough it may sound, among children competition takes place in a more severe form than among adults. And if an adult, having failed, can use the protective mechanisms developed over many years , the child, due to the lack of these mechanisms, remains alone with his problems. Often this leads to catastrophic consequences: the individual closes, experiences stress, and is depressed, which may affect his health in the future. But the worst part is that these conditions can gain a foothold and stay with him for life. All psychological teachings agree that in childhood it is much easier to change for better or worse than in adulthood. Correction is a complex system, and in the case of a child, it also requires acting and an established paternal approach.
How to “propel” a child forward?
The task of the teacher and parent in the first place is to identify the crisis conditions of the baby. There can be a lot of them, and a further correction program is determined depending on this quantity. Moreover, it is not necessary to devote your child to the trials that lie ahead. Classes and trainings are best served in a playful and relaxed way so that the child does not perceive this as another trip to school. Take, for example, such a common course as speech correction. It can be either a boring lesson or a fun lesson with elements of arts and crafts. We are talking about one of the methods of art therapy, which consists in the image and the further description of the picture or in the description of a finished picture. Based on the sounds heard by the speech therapist “difficult” for the child, a program is drawn up for drawing and speaking, with subsequent consolidation of the results.
Frequent problems in children, or At what desk does your child sit?
The study of various models of the relationship between teacher and child made a breakthrough in the educational process. Now it is believed that the assimilation of the material is affected not only by the student’s abilities, but also by the teacher’s experience. Now negligent teachers can not justify their failures by the low intellectual level of the student, his character and some other external reasons.
Take, for example, children who need vision correction. This is an example of a rather old and still not completed “war” between teachers and parents. And it begins with a rather harmless moment: the first seating of children in the classroom. Children are invited to sit at their desks at any convenient place. It would seem that it’s okay ... However, in the future it turns out that some students sitting away from the blackboard absorb less material because they are hard to see. The problem could be exterminated "in the bud" if the teacher had looked in advance at the health cards of his wards and planted the children, given the sharpness of their vision. But only a few private schools have come to such progress; in the rest, things, as usual, are put on the drift.
What pushes us forward
It is known that the requirements for a child will not be simplified in the foreseeable future. Before children - future adults - are becoming ever newer and more complex tasks associated with scientific and technological progress. Those schools that teach under the old programs will be out of competition due to the irrelevance of knowledge transmitted to children. They are screened by Russian certification commissions, so everyone is striving for a single standard. Often there are scandals associated with pressure on the child: take, for example, physical education in high school, which includes a set of classes “body shaping”. This is a generally accepted standard, which, however, not everyone is able to master for subjective reasons. Pressure on the teacher from the side of the school and from the parents exacerbates the situation, and the solution in this case is the child’s complete abandonment of sports and leisure activities (release).
However, no one has the right to drive children into such a framework. Each child is unique and prone to abilities in a certain field of activity or science. It is known that Pushkin and Einstein at one time received triples in subjects of little interest to them. But due to a combination of circumstances, they reached great heights, and their surnames became common names. And currently, many psychologists and educators are working on how to recreate these circumstances and activate a child’s creative approach to a particular field of knowledge.
What is the full market for educational services
Currently, centers are gaining popularity, the priority aspect of which is social correction. This is a set of psycho-corrective techniques that help in the educational activities of a schoolchild and preschooler. This direction is an integral part of the development of each of us, fixed in evolution. If our ancestors were not able to learn, they would not have survived in the wild. Therefore, an inexperienced teacher who claims that the child is uneducable, justifies his failure. Yes, many children of preschool and school age often need pedagogical correction. But to say that a child is not able to learn anything is a kind of crime.
School must meet
We can conditionally add one more link to the “child-parent-psychologist” scheme described earlier: school. Psychological and pedagogical correction is a process in which teachers should later be included with whom the student interacts. Taking into account the individual characteristics of the student and submitting material in accordance with them is the key to success in creating a successful personality. There are no incapable children on planet Earth! There are only children whose abilities have not yet been revealed, because we have not yet learned how to do it. Two centuries ago, such things as flying or transmitting sound through wires seemed fantastic to mankind ... Who knows what heights we will achieve in the foreseeable future? ..
Correction is the way to success!
The flow of knowledge of a young student is like a fresh spring, breaking through a rocky rock. It is necessary to show the new "spring" the road to the river of knowledge, to teach it to pave the way: sharpen the granite of science and avoid obstacles that have stood in the way of learning!