The Causes of Teachers' Job Burnout
Causes of Teachers' Job Burnout: Social Causes
1, unreasonable social expectations.
How is the teaching profession considered? The brightest job in the sun? Shoulder the important mission of teaching and educating people. With the continuous development of society, the expectations of society for teachers' profession are getting higher and higher. The state expects teachers to train a group of outstanding talents who are useful to society. Parents want their children to grow into successful people, and they have high hopes for their teachers. The whole society seems that teachers are the most versatile profession on earth, and their expectations and evaluation are not reasonable enough, and there is a tendency to be superior. Teachers are under great pressure to meet various needs.
2. Low social status and poor social treatment.
In recent years, with the development of market economy, although the economic and social status of teachers has improved to a certain extent, compared with other industries such as civil servants and financial system, the social status of teachers is obviously low, which leads to psychological imbalance of more and more teachers. Especially in rural primary and secondary schools, teachers' low wages, poor housing conditions and medical insecurity have not been effectively changed in some places, which has affected teachers' self-esteem, self-confidence and work enthusiasm. At the same time, due to the long-term, hidden and lagging achievements of teachers' labor, the teaching work lacks timely return and comfort, and the social recognition of teachers' profession is still low.
Reasons for teachers' job burnout.
1, hard work.
Teachers' work consumes both physical strength and brain power, which is a very hard work that consumes both physical strength and brain power. A teacher's job is first and foremost physical activity. As teachers, we have to prepare lessons, give lectures, correct homework, guide students' extracurricular activities, patiently and meticulously give ideological and political education to individual students and so on every day. It took the teachers countless days and nights. At the same time, the teacher's work is a creative mental work. Teachers' work should not be a kind of repetitive work, but a kind of continuous innovation and exploration. In order to teach a course well, teachers often think about it, design it carefully and rack their brains. These all require great physical and mental consumption.
2. Complex interpersonal relationships.
Teachers' complex interpersonal relationships mainly include the following two aspects:
The first is the relationship among teachers, leaders and colleagues. As a subordinate, we must handle the delicate relationship with the school leaders. Nowadays, school leaders are generally more and more autocratic, corrupt in style, cronyism and black-box operation. Under such leadership, teachers work in fear every day for fear of offending the leaders. The relationship between colleagues is also very subtle, crowding out each other and competing for a little benefit.
Second, we should handle the relationship between teachers and students. Nowadays, students' personalities are getting stronger and stronger, and they are more and more rebellious. All kinds of students have them. It's really a mixed bag. Some seriously violate discipline, some disobey management, and some even insult and attack teachers, which greatly deepens the difficulty of teacher management. Restricted by educational laws and regulations, teachers can be cautious in educating students, otherwise there will be social phenomena such as hurting students' self-esteem, insulting students and corporal punishment.
3. The management level of the school.
Some schools lack democratic management atmosphere, the quality of leading cadres is not high, the concept is backward, management is chaotic, bureaucracy is serious, school leaders lack communication with teachers, do not care about teachers, school managers are inefficient, do not accept and answer teachers' reasonable suggestions and opinions, and the performance evaluation of teachers is unscientific and reasonable, which is unfair. Some schools are used to working overtime. Teachers are exposed to an unsupported school environment, which leads to more and more depression and dissatisfaction.
4. Social communication is blocked.
The environment in which teachers live is relatively closed. Due to the requirements of student management, many schools implement it? Shift system? Teachers' working environment is not only the classroom, but also the office and family, and there are few opportunities for contact with the outside world. Teachers' work and life are monotonous. In addition to attending classes, they just correct their homework, urge students to complete their study tasks and go home to rest, which makes them lack the ability to communicate with society. Moreover, due to the fierce competition in teaching, the interpersonal relationship between teachers is always in a delicate state, and the psychological problems of teachers have not been alleviated for a long time.
Reasons for Teachers' Job Burnout III. Teachers' Personal Reasons
Teachers' personal differences are also an important cause of job burnout. Mainly in the following aspects:
1, personality differences make job burnout different. Studies have shown that people who are introverted, lack self-confidence and are not good at communicating with others are more likely to have job burnout. Teachers who hold individualistic values and strive to realize their work ideals and teachers who are delusional, irritable and unrealistic are more likely to have job burnout. On the contrary, those teachers who are cheerful and confident rarely have job burnout.
2. Different life attitudes also affect the degree of job burnout. Obviously, people with decadent life and pessimistic attitude are more likely to have job burnout than those with optimistic, active and lively life.
3. Different life experiences also affect the degree of job burnout. Teachers with rich social experience and great setbacks and failures are not prone to job burnout. In addition, factors such as age and marriage also affect the degree of job burnout.
4. The decline of professional ethics makes teachers lack sense of responsibility and enterprising spirit.
In the period of social transformation, influenced by various social factors, some teachers are not responsible, enterprising, lack of love for students, lack of foresight and open mind, which makes them content with the status quo and cope with their work.
In addition, with the acceleration of knowledge updating and the implementation of the new curriculum reform, teachers' original knowledge structure and teaching philosophy are far from meeting the requirements, and they often feel at a loss and gradually lose interest in their work.
The fourth reason of teachers' job burnout is the unfairness of education.
The queuing of teaching achievements, the differences between key schools and non-key schools, urban and rural areas, the work and achievements of ordinary school teachers are often not reasonably affirmed and recognized, and the distribution is unfair.