Competence-Based Model for Prevention of Emotional Burnout of Teachers of Individual Educational Institutions in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic (control stage of the formative experiment)

   The forced transition to a digital educational format due to the spread of the coronavirus infection COVID-19 caused a change in qualification requirements in educational activities and emotional burnout of teachers, which ensured the need to develop and implement a competency-based model of its prevention. 40 teachers from OKOU "Kursk boarding school for children with disabilities" aged 21 to 65 years with a professional experience of up to 43 years took part in the study. They were included in the control and experimental groups according to the diagnostic results (18 people each). The implementation of the ascertaining and control stages of the formative experiment included diagnosing the emotional burnout of teachers and the content of their socio-psychological competence and evaluating the results using statistical methods of mathematical analysis (“Statistica 11.0”). The program developed in accordance with the competency-based model for the prevention of emotional burnout of teachers of individual educational organizations is aimed at reducing its severity through optimizing the level of formation of their socio-psychological competence in interpersonal relationships. Lectures on the phenomenology, genesis, diagnostics and methods of preventing emotional burnout, as well as practice-oriented cases on the development of social and emotional intelligence, the formation of positive socio-psychological attitudes of interpersonal interaction and motivational orientation, constructive coping for overcoming stressful professional situations were implemented.Evaluation of the results of its implementation testified to a significant change in the severity of emotional burnout and socio-psychological competence of teachers in the experimental group in comparison with the control group and with the results of primary diagnostics, and hence its effectiveness.

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