Features of Recruitment of Hospital Teachers to Work with Long-Term Ill Children

Abstract

It is clear that children in long-term treatment are categorized as having special educational needs. Prolonged treatment (from several months to several years) and regular painful medical procedures result in increased fatigue, unstable attention, increased distractions and sometimes inability to remember and absorb information. This is especially the case for students in cancer hospitals. This creates a special need in hospital schools for highly qualified teaching staff with a high level of professional competence, psychological and personal readiness to work with ill children. However, the current situation is such that only a small percentage of Russian pedagogical universities can boast that they provide educational programs aimed at training such specialists. As a result, teachers from ordinary schools, who have not received special training, teach children undergoing long-term hospital treatment. Of course, all this imposes serious requirements on the process of searching and selecting such personnel. The authors of the article tried to identify and classify the key professional, personal and behavioral characteristics necessary for the work of a hospital teacher. In addition, the authors attempted to develop tools for analyzing these qualities at the recruitment stage.