Cries Of Teachers Behind The Scenes: A Catastrophe

Have you ever wished? You could spy the mind of teachers!

And figure out what drives them to join the profession.

A survey conducted by James Anthony in June 2019, reports. That out of 12,127 teachers, 65% of them responding identified signs they were burning out in their jobs. 85% of them were diagnosed as working with significantly increased risks to their health as a result.

We have looked into that most teachers run into job stress at least three to five times a day.

Hopeless education reforms. Lack of parental cooperation. And squeeze from school for non-teaching tasks cause stress to the teachers.

What is teacher Burnout?

Continuous physical and emotional fatigue rising from undue demands on energy, pointing to frustration, and restlessness develops into a disorder called burnout.

Situations leading to Burnout

Students’ upsetting behavior, various professional commitments, and threats crush the teachers. And in schools, unfair sharing of duties and powers adds to more rage.

These are some main reasons for teachers’ burnout. Even the best teachers live through the sign of burnout.

Burnout leading to Poor Teaching

With poor zeal and high frustrations, a stressed teacher can never enjoy teaching.

Or take pain to help a student but only to get the prescribed syllabus done.

Can you trust stressed teachers give so-called quality education? That many of the private schools show off in their prospectus.

Role of Policymakers

Can I be totally honest with you for a moment?

The International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health reports that India has 84% of burnout teachers.

This report is bold evidence of Indian education policymakers’ willful inaction.

So what? Government schools are left mismanaged.

So what? The government recruits teachers to feed data banks, not for teaching.

So what? A government school teacher goes for a private school for their ward.

So what? Everyone knows all this.

Situations seem to be worked out to give rise to burnout and demoralized teachers.

Burnout and Demoralization

We need to separate burnout and demoralization.

Stressful teaching in taxing schools is the leading cause of teacher burnout associated with teacher personality.

Demoralization comes about when the job of teaching reaches a level that teachers never expected.

Doris Santoro, co-editor of the new Harvard Education Press title, Principled Resistance: How Teachers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas:says, another longstanding issue is the root of departures among experienced teachers: demoralization.

Senseless Education Reforms with a political aim, make the teachers helpless and confused.

Profit Marked Policy of private schools presses them to compromise with teachers’ dignity, and leave them frustrated and demoralized.

Alarming Situation

Decreasing the quality of teaching and increasing students’ aggressiveness are severe aftereffects of teacher burnout.

Teacher burnout and demoralization are both hacking off the education framework in India. The situation calls for urgent action. Or it will harm the plan of the coming generation.

It is the nick of time to take a serious note of the present educational framework.

All stakeholders to Unite and Act

Policymakers, parents, principals, school managements, and teachers should come together to solve the problem of teacher burnout.

Stand firm to create a pleasing and encouraging setting. For the teachers, for ourselves, for our students, for our country, and our world.

The Takeaway

I have a few suggestions that may help the teachers to avoid burnout:

1. Quality finding Attitude

There is a need to move from fault finding to quality finding attitude. We dispraise more but praise less. Make a habit of finding good in everyone and everything.

Hold positive discussions in the staff room or out of the campus.

2. Appreciate to Feel better

When you want to feel better. Look around for something to please you. Focus on the object, think about its beauty, usefulness or any quality.

Stay focused for some time then you may try for another pleasing object. You will feel better.

3. Professional Growth

Spare an hour every Sunday, and plan for the coming week. You will have enough time to get your teaching resources ready and solve expected problems.

Take every opportunity to attend workshops, conferences, and teacher training programs.

Search on the internet for teaching resources. And update yourself on Education Trends developing in your country and the world.

Now, it is easy to present at online education conferences from one’s home.

4. Note of Positive Aspects

Pen down the name or brief report of someone or something. That you cheer every time. It could be the name of your pet, your favorite shopping mall, your best friend or the person whom you go for.

As you focus upon the name or title that you have written, ask yourself.

What do I like about it?

Why do I like it?

What are my positive aspects about it?

Note down the thoughts that come in response to your questions. Then write another name or title of someone or something that pleases you.

Repeat the course for 20 minutes daily.

5. Be happy to share happiness

In a routine, teachers call a parent and tell how bad their student is.

You need to find a bunch of your students who get your liking. Call their parents and tell about improvement.

Pick your students trying to improve. And compliment them and their parents on something they are doing well.

Show gratitude for an administrator, or colleague by sending them an appreciative note.

6. Visualize pleasant Scenes

We keep our minds all the time busy thinking about some object, incident, people, or condition. That we see or experience. And so, the same situation remains unchanged. Because thoughts matching the existing situation will bring back the same.

The universe vibrates with our every positive/negative thought living now or imagining. And pulls the same in compliance with the Law of Attraction.

So apply the law. Practice picturing pleasant scenes in your mind to attract them.

I have published this story on medium.com in Jan. 2020.

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