Роль куратора в психологічному супроводі адаптації студентів-першокурсників

Abstract

У статті розглядаються питання про роль куратора для студентів різних курсів; розкривається зна- чення терміна «куратор»; описуються фактори, що впливають на успішність процесу адаптації студентів у

групі; проаналізовано, у яких напрямках здійснюється діяльність куратора.

The article is aimed at revealing the main peculiarities of mentor’s work and his/her role in university students’ life. The review of scientific literature allows to consider a mentor of a higher educational institution as an educator,

who not only supervises students’ studying, but also actively engages them into the educational process, using the sys- tem of interrelations, based on collaboration and partnership. One of the main tasks of any mentor is to help first- and

second-year-students quickly adapt to the student life, learn their rights and duties, understand the organization of the educational process at a university, and create positive atmosphere in a group. A mentor has several social roles, he/she is considered as an organizer, a sociologist, a coach, a guide, and a director. New educational environment as well as anew social status require first-year-students to obtain new behavior patterns. This process may cause some psychologi- cal stresses, and a mentor helps students overcome all psychological and social difficulties at this stage of their personal

development. Besides, there have been distinguished the following factors of successful relations between a lecturer and

a student: moral maturity of a lecturer, his/her professional scholarly erudition, psycho-pedagogical preparedness; effi- ciency of pedagogical interaction, authenticity of professional behavior; his/her ability to perform a personality-oriented

approach. Besides, the following aspects of pedagogues’ activities, required for the process of psychological follow-up

of first-year-students’ adaptation, have been determined: psychosocial aspect (educator’s skills of working with stu- dents), individual psychological aspect (personality mobilization for solving potential problems), psycho-didactic (ac- tivities aimed at educational tasks solution). All these aspects are interconnected in the system of relations between lec- turers and students. Modern education is aimed at solving such tasks as creating conditions for increasing competitive- ness of a personality, providing professional and social mobility, training qualified staff, etc. Thus, the goals of men- tor’s activities are teambuilding, formation of professional qualities in students; because it is the team where optimal

conditions for the realization of personal potential and development of communicative, organizational and analytics abilities of future professionals can be created.