Class Teacher's Role in Student's Adaptation at Secondary School

The diploma thesis deals with the pedagogical and educational influence of a form teacher at secondary school in the process of adaptation of new students. A form teacher at secondary school plays an important role in the lives of students coming from an elementary school. He is directly involved in creating favourable climate in the newly forming class and in a challenging working environment since the beginning of the school year. The form teacher influences whether students like going to another school facility, what kind of relationship they enjoy with their classmates, how they perceive school and how they go through a period of self-reliance, adolescence, and preparation for their future profession. The form teacher is an employee, pedagogue and educator rolled into one with a number of duties arising from the job position; the person who is the closest to his students in resolving everyday school and life pleasures and worries at the time of adaptation. This diploma thesis follows in the author's bachelor thesis which factually dealt with arranging and realization of briefing by a form teacher before entering students a secondary vocational school. The thesis aims to theoretically define and analyse the work of a form teacher in connection with the adaptation of students into a selected..