Juan Rosario Sanabria Muñiz Roquet Mateo Farfán Abundis Tamara Daniela

González de la Cruz Rodrigo Azpeitia Terán Israel Team No. 1

Academic Burnout Script

Mateo: Hello everyone, welcome to the academic help podcast of team 1 number one.
Today we’ll be talking about a very important topic regarding teenagers and the stress
that’s put on their shoulders with their everyday school life. We’ve all been through
that one stage in our lives when we feel like everything at the moment feels like work,
work and more work, it makes us feel exhausted, overworked and overall it just feels
terrible. This is called a burnout, and it can be defined as the sudden increase in
workload pressure, this is a very common situation for high schoolers and the way
they deal with large amounts of work, while it is much more likely to happen to a
higher grade student, it’s totally possible for it to be presented in any person at any
possible time. Each one of us has a limit, which is different for every person, especially
when you consider external factors like family influence, bad studying habits and even
the environment itself. Our goal with this podcast is to help students of our age deal
with heavy workload in a better way, and highlight what bad habits are very common
for academic burnout to be developed.
Mateo: Now that we know what academic burnout is, let’s talk about some common
causes for it to affect a person, as mentioned before, family performance expectations
play a huge role in determining how a person manages stress, when you are expected
to get a really high grade in every subject in school, you’ll definitely feel sometimes like
you aren’t enough or that you must study harder for this goal to be achieved,
sometimes it’s not even as hard as some people may portray it, but there’s no way to
know, it’s always better to go the safe route and study every single topic we are taught,
as well as having a study routine which may interfere with some other aspects of our
lives. Another common cause of academic burnout is the bad habits we perform in our
daily lives, these habits make us be less productive and efficient, we normally get
distracted by unimportant things, which means we take more time to complete tasks,
and if we’re under a time limit, this feeling can be even worse. Having little time and a
lot of work to do is ultimately the base for academic burnout to start showing up in our
lives, this is influenced by procrastination and getting distracted easily. We may also
feel burnt out if we lack a sense of purpose or have a goal in our sights. We need
emotional stability to keep going and fight for our interests, which brings us to our next
topic, which is emotional intelligence.
Mateo: Emotional intelligence can be defined as the capability to identify, assess and
deal with strong emotions that suddenly appear in our lives. Dealing with the way we
take on our tasks and managing stress is crucial if we want to stay healthy mentally. A
lot of adults believe students don’t or shouldn’t suffer burn outs, because they don’t
have mortgage payments to worry about, or even taking care of other people, and while
this is true, students and teenagers have their own problems to deal with, which we
sometimes don’t even realize, but it definitely affects us, some common causes were
Juan Rosario Sanabria Muñiz Roquet Mateo Farfán Abundis Tamara Daniela
González de la Cruz Rodrigo Azpeitia Terán Israel Team No. 1
already mentioned, but of course, each person is totally different and deals with their
own problems, so dealing with a burn out if never a methodical process, but it’s more of
a “knowing yourself to fix your problems” kind of process. Emotional intelligence is not
only important for academic burn outs, but it’s a very good ability to have, because
you’re able to confront your own problems with strength and determination instead of
avoiding them entirely, which sometimes leads to remorse and depression. Teenagers
deal with a very hard stage in their lives, where they wish to fit into society above
many other things, so they prioritize not appearing weak, and this causes them to feel
like hiding their problems is the right thing to do, but the truth is that this, paired with
high expectations and many external factors causes us to have no emotional
intelligence and so, academic burnout starts to show up and turns into an even bigger
problem than before.
Mateo: We believe there’s no better way to portray how big of a role academic burnout
plays than asking students of our age how they feel related to school tasks and the
workload that’s put on their lives during their highschool years. We made a survey
consisting of 15 questions and we asked 20 different students to answer them as
honestly as possible. Here are some of the results:
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Mateo: Looking at the first graphic of our survey, which answers the question of how
stressed students feel with school at the moment, out of the 20 that answered the
survey, only 3 of them selected a number below 5, so this means that 85% of people feel
like school is putting too much work on them and they’re having trouble dealing with
it. This is demonstrated by the next few graphs where we can see that 70% of
interviewed students get distracted from studying and doing school work by doing an
activity related to their phone, like watching videos or playing video games. Many of
the interviewees also mentioned they don’t fully sleep 6 to 8 hours a week this number
represents 50% of the interviewees. And lastly 90% of students agreed that school will
randomly put too much work on them out of nowhere, which leads to a lot of stress,
and irritation, because 75% of students are easily irritated by normally small or
meaningless triggers. Seeing how many students of this age are affected, it’s safe to say
that adults shouldn’t minimize a teengagers worries or problems, because they deal
with many different demons that adults may not have to, which brings us to our final
point.
Mateo: To leave on a high note, and to help whoever listens to this podcast, we want to
propose studying techniques to help students organize their time efficiently so that
they don’t feel too overwhelmed, this feeling can of course never be eradicated but it
can definitely be controlled. Well, our first tip is to use a schedule or a task completion
app, this helps because if you make yourself use the app every single time you are
assigned a task, you won’t have much trouble later in the day trying to figure out what
to do next, and you can organize your work by prioritizing what’s most important,
instead of not even knowing where to start. Our second recommendation is the
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González de la Cruz Rodrigo Azpeitia Terán Israel Team No. 1
Pomodoro technique, this consists in studying for around 30 minutes, and then taking
a 5 minute break, this will help you stay focused, because a 5 minute break is a nice
chill point for your brain, but it isn’t enough to make you forget everything you’ve
learnt the past 30 minutes, so, for continuous study, this method is recommended. And
lastly, this is more of a personal and moral preference, but we advise you to ask for
help in any way you can, approaching teachers to express any doubt or if there’s a
school psychologist, you could ask them for help with dealing with heavy workload
from time to time, you must not feel like you are alone, there will always be somebody
to help you along the way.
Mateo: Well, this just about wraps up our podcast about academic stress, we hope you
have find the information mentioned here very useful and hopefully you won’t be
bashing your head against a wall next time you’re assigned a lot of homework (drum
noise) we will see you later, and thank you for listening, peace out.