: Healthplusthemag
I ever read an article about a lot of junior high school students that were arrested by police. The students were watching movies in the cinema during school hours. They said they were not come to school because they were bored to study and burnedout. Burnout is an extended period of time where someone experiences exhausted and lack of interest in a lot of things. It is a pervasive problem amongst students. In fact, student burnout exists and can be caused by several factors.
First, adults expect way too much from today's youth. There are some adults who believe that giving a lot of tests and assignments to students in a short time will make them smarter and prepare them for college. In fact, many students feel that exams and assignments played a major role in anxiety. If they are failed, they will be nervous. It makes them not perform well on test day.
Second, the pressure of studying and activities. It can be a distress for students. They will feel emotional and physical fatigue. For example, some schools that have applied full day school. This concept require students to have more time for learning. They will be in school until 5 p.m. in order to have better educated students and less stressful parents. However, the students will be psychologycally tired and burnedout. Therefore, the absorption capability of students has decreased.
Third, bad social supports also give big impacts. Poor relationship with friends, teachers or parents triggers the saturations on students. Usually, it happens because of the differences in personal values, different in seeing problems, and more advance self problem than learning competition. If they have a good social support, they can control their stress. For example, a gratify learning environment can improve the quality of learning.
If the students were expected too much, receive a lot pressure of studying and activities, and get bad social supports, they will burnedout and stress. Teachers should be more creative and variations in learning methods, try to build a delight learning environment. The students also have to manage their own schedule, it helps their mind focused. They also need to rest when they are tired and don't hesitate to speak about their problems to their closest people.
