Teachers battle student stress
Teachers of Anna University participate in a workshop on helping students deal with stress. How do you handle an adolescent who refuses to speak, even about his project, or a student who is very attentive in class but fails to perform in examinations?
Two months the before a new group of students enter engineering colleges, lecturers and professors of Anna University are being advised on how to handle students and help them handle stress better.
In a series of workshops organized by the Centre for Empowerment of Women, Anna University, the lecturers are trained in specific ways to help students understand personal and academic stress.
"Students come here from varied backgrounds and the biggest challenge is to get them to open up and speak boldly," said HemaAchyuthan, director of Centre for Empowerment of Women.
The workshop on Friday was handled by Counsellor PrabhaArun who said that students tend to approach only those teachers who make them feel relaxed. Lecturers assume that college students are more responsible but the transition from school often takes time.
"Observing students' behaviour helps a lot, "said teachers. Y. Vidhya Lakshmi, a physics lecturer, said, "We might observe a student behaving differently but only when we talk to hostel wardens do we get a better picture of his recent activities. Also, the fact that teachers keep changing every semester does not allow students to establish longer relationships with them."
Teachers say that the 45 minutes allocated every week for counselling students is hardly adequate to understand their problems. Also, teachers are expected to shoulder more responsibilities, such as handling additional programs and submitting research papers. This leaves them with very little time to communicate with students.
Teachers of Anna University attend the workshop so that they can help students _______.

A．have the ability to speak

B．fight with their stress

C．adapt to the university life well

D．gain higher grades in exams

We can know from the passage that _               _

A．two months after the new students enter the college, teachers will be trained in workshops

B．the biggest difficulty for the new students entering the college is to speak freely and boldly

C．PrabhaArun is a physics lecturer and also a director in Anna University

D．lecturers think that school takes up more responsibility for the students' stress

Students have difficulty in setting up longer relationships with teachers because _______.

A．teachers are not always available at any time

B．teachers keep changing every semester

C．students are busy with their project all the time

D．students are bearing too much pressure

The underlined' word in the last paragraph probably means "______".

A．set aside

B．put down

C．set up

D．cut out