Gender aspect in psychological support of Russian teachers of foreign schools

¹ The Kosygin State University of Russian, Institute of International Education, Moscow, Russia
² Moscow Pedagogical State University (MPGU), Institute of International Education, Moscow, Russia

^* Corresponding author: apozdnyakova@live.ru

Abstract

“Staff feminization” of the Russian schools is a general tendency of the modern education, however, the problems that female teachers face when performing their professional activity in a foreign cultural environment are rather specific and therefore they require the most careful consideration and further correction through the system of psychological support. The study of the mechanism of psychological support, as well as the methods of its implementation, is the objective of the present article. The tasks of the research are the following: 1) determination of the stress factors, accompanying the activity of the female teachers of the Russian school abroad; 2) selection of the contemporary psychological techniques required for neutralization of the stress factors; 3) formation of a cluster of measures required for psychological support of teacher of Russian as a foreign language; 4) modelling of the educational content directed to the formation of the psychological competencies of the Russian teacher of a foreign school. The system of psychological support has two levels and includes the following measures: 1) prevention of the impact of negative factors and 2) liquidation of the competency-based lacunes in the field of psychological knowledge. Taking into consideration the specific character of a foreign cultural environment allows determining the individual trajectories of the professional development of a teacher. The system of psychological support is not closed; it should be updated and improved constantly taking into account and under the influence of the demands of the time to become a part of the mechanism of the general training of a teacher of the Russian school abroad.