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The Role of the Form Teacher in Supporting Students

Author(s): Magdalena Piorunek
Subject(s): School education, Educational Psychology, Pedagogy
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: form teacher; helping relationships; student support; a model of psychological and pedagogical support;

Summary/Abstract: In the article focuses on non-didactic functions carried out by a teacher and the teacher’s role in supporting, helping, and counselling their students. Teachers differ from each other in terms of the level and characteristics of the competences they utilise to provide help and counselling, the evaluation of these strategies in education, as well as their willingness to actively engage in such relationships, and the responsiveness to the needs for help and support expressed by their students. This paper describes a helping relationship between a teacher and a student. It presents the functioning of a form teacher as a person who potentially maintains the most frequent and least formalized contact with a student and examines the form teacher’s role in the processes of supporting students. To this end, the paper refers to the selected results of the sampling studies conducted to explore perception by adolescents of their form teachers as individuals providing support. The form teacher’s role was also identified at each stage of the three-level psychological and pedagogical support model (school counselling) that begins with identifying a problem faced by a student, proceeds to a psychological and pedagogical intervention, and ends with helping a student consolidate and preserve the changes that already started developing in him/her.

  • Issue Year: 14/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 79-96
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish