Educational environment approach to preventing the growth of school students anxiety in the transition from primary to secondary school

Abstract

The article describes the possible environmental approach for prevention of growth of schoolanxiety that was found in Russian students at the moment of transition from primary to secondary school.The authors present the content of the experimental study, which was attended by 213 children of thefourth and fifth years of school education. The author's model of the local personal-developmentaleducational environment in the fourth grades was implemented to prevent difficulties in the adaptationof fifth graders to secondary school, and prevention of the growth of school anxiety of pupils. Fordiagnostics of level of school anxiety the "Trait Anxiety Scale" of Prikhozhan was used. It is proved thatthe implementation of the environmental approach in the experimental classes prevents the growth ofschool anxiety in the transition to secondary school. The research materials can be used to solve theproblem of continuity between the levels of school education.