Stress is one of the most serious problems in today’s society, almost everyone feels stressed in a more or less common way, although we have accepted this fact as normal (normalized), the truth is that it can cause many problems in the long term. One of the most common problems is teacher exhaustion syndrome, also known as teacher exhaustion.
This problem is particularly serious because of its strong impact on the world of education and the impact it has on the education of our children, so in this article we tell you a little more about this syndrome, its characteristics and causes, as well as what can be done to prevent it, whether it is a teacher or a parent of a school-age child.
- Burn-out is a workplace wear-and-tear syndrome.
- People with this syndrome have high levels of stress over an extended period of time.
- So they accumulate increasing mental.
- Emotional and physical fatigue.
- So work performance is getting worse and the person may feel very unwell.
Teacher exhaustion syndrome is just a specific variant of exhaustion that occurs in education professionals. Because of new challenges in education, such as loss of teaching authority or student rebellion, many educators are dissatisfied with their work and may experience many stress-related problems. Symptoms.
Most cases occur due to a difference in expectations between your idea of what work would be like and what is actually happening, this can cause cognitive dissonance, which promotes the development of burnout syndrome in teachers, but what are your main symptoms?
Next, we’ll examine some of the most common symptoms of burnout syndrome in teachers.
One of the main indicators of the existence of the problem is the constant and intense feeling of “no longer being able to do so”. As with most stress-induced syndromes, emotions are uncontrollable and the person tends to feel sad, tired and eager to do nothing.
This can even lead some teachers to develop physiological problems, such as insomnia, headaches or intestinal problems, however, the cause does not have a physical origin. It can be found in the altered emotional state itself.
Given that one of the main causes of burnout syndrome among teachers is the inability to carry out work as the teacher wishes, it is common to be very dissatisfied with the work they do, dissatisfaction that, in practice, feels like a feeling of failure or defeat, as well as the belief in helplessness in the face of classroom situations.
This sense of failure can even spread to other areas of life, creating problems in the teacher’s personal relationships and other aspects of a person’s daily life.
Because teachers with this syndrome feel helpless and useless, in many situations they tend to lock themselves in and lose interest in their work, in this way, the passion for what they do disappears and they begin to perform their tasks mechanically, which can lead them to enter a vicious circle that will make them feel much worse compared to work.
Teacher exhaustion syndrome is a serious problem that can affect both the quality of children’s education and teachers’ personal lives, but what can be done to solve this problem?
Perhaps, in this sense, if it is important to work with teachers who have already entered this circle of stress, is even more preventive work, which is our responsibility as a society, whether or not we dedicate ourselves to vocational training.