儿童及青少年行为

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Adolescents and Role of Teacher in Their Development: With Reference to Covid Era

Sheveta Sehgal

Adolescence represents a period of significant growth. It is a time of rebirth. The developmental stage of young adolescence has been referred to as the “turning point” between childhood and adulthood. Technically adolescent is the period from the beginning of sexual maturity to the completion (complete) of physical growth. Due to the complexities and challenges faced by an individual during this stage, philologists have termed it as a period of great ‘stress and storm’. Teachers play a significant role in the lives of adolescents. This is the time when a teacher can do a lot of help to adolescents to develop a balanced personality. Teacher provides knowledge to adolescence and equips them to be sensitive to the diversity in youth’s experiences and the competing forces in their lives. The role of today’s (Covid era) has become very challenging, complex and multifaceted on account of the explosion of knowledge and the explosion of new means of technology. Teachers have to guide and inspire the students and act as partners in the teaching-learning process providing purposeful activities. This is the duty of the teachers to assimilate a set of values and develop in a pragmatic manner to face the challenges of the 21st century. During covid era, the pandemic has not only affected the mental state of students since teachers have also accumulated a high level of stress since the beginning of the crisis. The pandemic Covid-19 resulted in an unimagined situation of the world and it introduced an unprecedented use of technology in the education system, teaching and learning process. Students and teachers on online platforms for teaching and learning. During lockdown, teachers have suffered stress from having to adapt (in record time) in order to provide online classes, the teachers worked as a researcher as well as a facilitator for guiding adolescents and helped them how to use technological means. The role of teachers is rapidly evolving becoming in many ways more than when learning took place only in person. This paper describes the ways in which educators play a key role in providing learning experiences with the learners’ development in mind. Through this paper,we will learn how the pandemic changed the role of teachers. Pandemic has changed the process of teaching; hence the role of the teacher has been transformed. The basic requirement of a teacher essentially remains the same which is the facilitator of learning but other than that the role of the teacher in pandemic has become very challenging.