Speech on burnout for primary school teachers

2017 Primary School Teachers’ Burnout Speech 1

Dear teachers:

The pace of modern society is accelerating and competition is fierce. The pressure caused by competition has led to teachers’ professional development. Burnout and professional burnout not only affect teachers' physical and mental health, but also affect educational work, talent training, and the country's four modernizations. This article analyzes the manifestations, harm and causes of teacher burnout, and proposes methods and measures to avoid teacher burnout, so as to draw society's attention to the phenomenon of teacher burnout.

1. Background

The pace of modern society is getting faster and faster, and various competitions are becoming more and more fierce, which puts pressure on modern people. The teaching profession is recognized around the world as one of the most intense and stressful professions, and burnout is common among teachers. Survey research shows that more than 50% of primary and secondary school teachers in my country believe that their profession is very or extremely stressful. In recent years, from various news reports, we have learned that teachers in some schools have corporally punished and abused students. When various news media reported this phenomenon, they only discussed the quality of teachers, and for the cases The deeper psychological reasons behind this are not involved. These phenomena reflect that the current problem of teacher burnout cannot be ignored. Professional burnout is very harmful to teachers themselves, students, schools and society. For teachers, it can lead to states of exhaustion, indifference, negativity, tension, etc. in terms of emotions, cognition, and behavior; for students, it can lead to corporal punishment and psychological abuse, thus affecting learning interest and academic performance; For the school, it will lead to a decline in teaching quality, unrest in people's hearts, and a loss of teachers' ethics; for the country and society, it will seriously affect the construction of our teaching team, which is a waste of educational resources, thus affecting the quality of talent training and affecting to the country’s four modernizations. Therefore, analyzing the manifestations, harms and causes of teacher burnout and mastering strategies to solve professional burnout have become urgent tasks and topics we are facing, and are of great practical significance.

2. The meaning of teacher burnout

In 1974, American clinical psychologist Freudenberger first proposed the concept of "professional burnout", which was specifically used to It describes a series of psychological and physiological syndromes that individuals manifest in response to long-term emotional stressors and interpersonal stressors in a professional environment. Subsequently, scholars from various countries began to pay attention to its research. In 1981, psychologist Malus and others determined the three core components of "occupational burnout" through in-depth research: (1) Emotional exhaustion, which refers to an individual's emotional exhaustion and complete loss of work enthusiasm. (2) Depersonalization, which refers to individuals treating visitors with a negative, negative or insensitive attitude; (3) Low sense of personal accomplishment, which refers to a reduction in the tendency of individuals to evaluate their own meaning and value. In 1974, psychologist Frutenberg defined "occupational burnout" as a condition experienced by people in the helping profession due to too long daily working hours, too heavy workload, and too high work intensity. A state of exhaustion.

Various studies at home and abroad have shown that job burnout is most likely to occur in the helping industry. This is because people engaged in this type of occupation are overly obsessed with their ideals and ways of life, but they may not be able to achieve their expectations. of beauty, resulting in fatigue and emotional exhaustion. The teaching profession is a typical helping profession. It has a heavy workload, heavy tasks, and great social responsibilities. Teachers themselves and society have high expectations for the teaching profession. This often leads to teachers being unable to handle the many pressures at work smoothly, and thus It damages teachers' work enthusiasm and creates a mentality of professional burnout.

Therefore, to put it simply, teacher burnout refers to various adverse psychological reactions caused by teachers’ inability to cope with occupational pressure. It is the emotions, attitudes and behaviors of teachers under long-term work pressure. A state of depletion in behavior and other aspects.

3. The manifestations and harms of teacher burnout

Teachers have a heavy workload, heavy tasks, and long working hours. Teachers not only need to master increasingly updated professional knowledge, complete various teaching tasks, and face increasingly personalized students, but also need to meet the increasingly higher requirements for teachers put forward by the country, society, parents, and students, and adapt to national education. Reforms and changes to adapt to changes in talent and knowledge structure requirements. If teachers cannot effectively adapt to changes and release psychological pressure, it will not only affect the quality of teaching, but also cause teachers' psychological barriers and professional burnout. Specifically, it mainly includes the following aspects:

3.1 Loss of professional enthusiasm and interest, and passive coping with work. Once teachers experience burnout, they will become tired of teaching, lack professional ethics and professionalism, and muddle through teaching work. They often arrive late and leave early in class, do not prepare lessons seriously, write lesson plans, attend classes without lesson plans, and do not study business and teaching methods carefully. It is simple, backward, and has a single teaching content; it treats students indifferently, often uses sarcastic, sarcastic, and ridiculing language to treat students with poor grades, psychologically abuses students, and even uses corporal punishment such as slapping, twisting ears, or kicking students. This not only destroys the image of teachers in the minds of students, but also causes students to become tired of learning, become introverted, withdrawn, sensitive, and have low self-esteem, causing lifelong indelible damage to students' minds.

3.2 Transfer of career interests. Due to burnout from teaching work, teachers often shift their interests to things they love, such as pursuing a second career, doing business, making friends, playing cards, playing mahjong, eating and drinking, etc., gaining a sense of satisfaction from them and losing professional pride. feel.

3.3 Impact on teachers’ physical and mental health. Due to being in a stressful and disharmonious working environment for a long time, teachers often feel emptiness, depression, frustration, anger, irritability, insomnia, nervousness, loss of appetite, body pain, exhaustion and other symptoms, and feel that their work is meaningless. It is boring, the future is bleak, there is no hope, the mood fluctuates greatly, and a sense of depression occurs. In severe cases, it can lead to low self-esteem and despair, leading to depression.

4. Reasons for teachers’ professional burnout

Teachers’ professional burnout is not caused by one thing, but by various factors in the work during the long-term teaching work. A kind of stress, a low-intensity progressive reflection process produced emotionally. In addition to the internal reasons of teachers themselves, the causes of teacher burnout also include social, school, work tasks, teaching objects and interpersonal relationships.

4.1 Reasons for the teacher’s own personality, work attitude, and motivation

Teachers who have personality flaws, such as introversion, isolation, irritability, dissociation, and lack of self-confidence It is easy to feel stressed at work and prone to job burnout; some teachers do not have clear goals in teaching and teach just to make a lot of money and gain social status. If they feel that they are not respected by society, their status is not high, and their working conditions are poor, Wages are low. When you compare your work input and returns with those of people in other industries in society, and find that your expectations have not been met, you will feel depressed and fatigued, frustrated and failed, and you will easily become dissatisfied, negative, pessimistic, disappointed, etc. The phenomenon of occupational burnout, loss of work motivation, has a negative impact on work.

4.2 The Influence of Social Pressure

Countries around the world are paying more and more attention to education, and they also attach great importance to teachers. However, the requirements for teachers are also getting higher and higher. Not only do they require teachers at all levels They must have a teacher qualification certificate, have superb professional knowledge, understand teaching rules, and receive professional training in pedagogy and educational psychology. Teachers at all levels must also meet corresponding academic requirements. At the same time, because our country’s education system is undergoing comprehensive and in-depth reforms, such as teacher professional title evaluation, job appointment, elimination of the last position, pay based on performance, the number of papers published in core journals, etc., all have become increasingly difficult for everyone. A teacher feels an invisible pressure.

On the other hand, the country and society generally believe that the key to improving the quality of education lies in the improvement of teacher quality. Once the quality of education declines and student problems increase, people will blame the teachers and think that it is caused by improper teacher education. Although some teachers can face difficulties and turn pressure into motivation, there are also some teachers who feel too much pressure and feel lost. They are unable to adapt to new requirements and feel inadequate, leading to professional burnout.

4.3 The impact of the school environment on teachers

The school’s development goals and positioning, the school’s system regulations, the school’s leadership style, the school’s academic atmosphere, the school teachers’ role regulations, etc. will all impact on teachers. Wilson believes that all roles with a high degree of responsibility for others experience considerable inner conflict and insecurity. The importance the school attaches to teachers, the school's work arrangements and evaluations of teachers, whether the school leadership is democratic, laissez-faire or autocratic, and the degree of harmony between cadres and the masses will all have different impacts on teachers. Then there is the question of whether the school arranges and uses the work of teachers appropriately, and whether it can apply what they have learned and make the best use of their talents. Ensure the objectivity and fairness of grading, evaluation and promotion. In this school environment, in order to adapt to these requirements, teachers need to play different roles, such as teachers, subordinates, mentors, friends, parents, psychological counselors, etc. Too many roles will make people feel inadequate. If leaders, friends, colleagues, and spouses do not provide appropriate comfort and help, professional burnout will gradually occur.

4.4 Reasons for work tasks

Many people think that teachers have a leisurely job, stable income, and many vacations, and only teach a few classes a day. They do not see that teachers work hard to do well every day. The preparation work done before class, such as finding information, writing lesson plans, etc. Moreover, many teachers stand on the podium for many years with only a piece of chalk, a blackboard, and a lesson plan. This traditional teaching method and monotonous teaching environment are more likely to cause burnout. Teachers' work is also long-term, continuous and cyclical. Teachers send students away batch after batch, which requires hard work, but when they return to the starting point like a boatman, they will feel monotonous and lonely. There are no flowers and applause, and all the students are left with are their grades. Therefore, teachers must have the psychological preparation and psychological endurance to endure loneliness. In addition to teaching work, teachers also face a series of pressures such as improving their academic qualifications, producing scientific research results, publishing papers, professional title evaluations, and year-end assessments. If you do not meet these hardware indicators, no matter how good you are in class, you will not be able to do well. If teachers will be promoted to professional titles, their corresponding economic benefits will be affected, which will make teachers feel anxious and cause professional burnout.

4.5 Reasons for teaching objects

Many teachers now have the same feeling that students are becoming more and more difficult to teach, which leads to students being tired of learning and teachers being tired of teaching. situation. Due to the large-scale expansion of enrollment in schools at all levels across the country in recent years, the quality of students has dropped significantly, and it has become more difficult to manage students; many students lack interest and enthusiasm for learning, are unwilling to put in hard work, and cannot bear the long-term loneliness to study. , on the contrary, they are flocking to things that have immediate results. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why many students are so keen on talent shows such as "Super Girl". Teachers' return on their education is not reflected in the teacher's financial return to a certain extent, but in their spiritual return. Teachers need to have a sense of accomplishment. This sense of accomplishment means that students' behavior must meet the teacher's expectations. expected value. Maybe teachers can tolerate not having better economic income, but they can never tolerate that they have put in hard work and the students have not made any progress or responded at all.

4.6 Reasons for interpersonal relationships

Interpersonal relationships refer to the various relationships formed between teachers and students in school interactions, such as teacher-student relationships, student-student relationships, and teacher-to-teacher relationships. The relationship between leaders and students, the relationship between leaders and teachers, etc. In a certain sense, these interpersonal relationships constitute the interpersonal environment of teaching, which can affect the effectiveness of teaching and learning activities by affecting people's emotions, cognition and behavior.

In this regard, the "Xue Ji" written more than 2,000 years ago told us, "Studying alone without friends will lead to loneliness and ignorance." ?Among the interpersonal relationships in the school, especially the teacher-student relationship, the student-student relationship, and the relationship between teachers have the most direct and concrete impact on teaching and learning activities, and they also constitute the most important interpersonal relationships within the school. A survey showed that 42% of the teachers interviewed believed that interpersonal relationships in their schools were complicated. This complex interpersonal relationship will affect the relationship between teachers and leaders, colleagues, students, friends and even family members. For example, there are unhealthy trends in schools such as treating guests, giving gifts, eating and drinking, and forming cliques. Promotion, promotion, and promotion are all related to this, but people who are upright, down-to-earth, and diligent and enterprising are not valued. This unfair phenomenon will cause teachers to feel depressed and depressed. Research shows that people are often prone to cognitive biases under greater psychological pressure and dysregulated emotional states. At this time, individuals tend to make negative judgments about the intentions of others and react negatively accordingly. Disharmonious interpersonal relationships make teachers unable to concentrate on their jobs and create a sense of distrust in leaders and colleagues; they show boredom and impatience with students, often criticizing, blaming, and even ridiculing; they indulge in pouring out their own problems when communicating with friends. Dissatisfied, depressed, nagging, impatient to listen to other people's suggestions, refusing to think from other people's perspective, lacking two-way communication; lack of care and enthusiasm for family and family affairs, some characters become irritable, often lose temper with family members, beat and scold them Children; some are more introverted and self-isolated, and can easily develop depression.

5. Methods and measures to avoid teacher burnout.

Teacher burnout not only affects the physical and mental health development of teachers, but also affects the teaching work of the school and has a negative impact on the teaching effect. Therefore, we should help teachers find effective ways to overcome burnout. The specific measures are as follows:

5.1. Implement educational policies, obtain social support, and improve the social status of teachers’ profession.

The government has always been very concerned about education and has formulated a great strategy of "rejuvenating the country through science and education". Since the Eighth Five-Year Plan, investment in education has maintained a rapid growth rate. From 1995 to The average annual growth rate of education funding during the ten years from 2005 was 30.6. However, in order to truly implement the education policy and make the teaching profession an enviable profession, improving the social status of the teaching profession requires the joint participation of the whole society, so that the whole society can form a tendency to respect and support teachers. and psychological atmosphere. While society puts forward various demands on teachers, it should also care about teachers' vital interests and improve teachers' social and economic status. When formulating relevant education policies, the government should pay attention to policy tilt and effectively protect the economic status and professional reputation of teachers, because the social status of the teaching profession is determined by its economic status and professional reputation, which will have a significant impact on teachers' work emotions. Influence. The government must not only formulate policies and laws to protect teachers' various rights, but also implement them so that the whole society can create an atmosphere of respect for teachers. For example, increase teachers' salary income so that teachers' salaries are at a higher level among various professions in society, and they must be paid on time and never in arrears; establish and improve a new personnel system to facilitate teachers' promotion and promotion; in housing We should pay more attention to and take care of teachers in life aspects such as children's study and employment, spouse's work, etc. In this way, teachers can work more at ease and devote themselves to education with full enthusiasm.

5.2. Establish a democratic, open and harmonious working environment.

Different working environments have different impacts on teachers. A democratic, open, and harmonious working environment will have a positive motivating effect on teachers. Schools should establish a fair and reasonable system with incentive mechanisms, such as teaching management systems, economic benefit systems, etc., so that teachers can compete for jobs, promotions, and We can be treated fairly in terms of professional title evaluation, further education, wages and benefits, and everyone is treated as the same person. School leaders should have a democratic leadership style, care and respect teachers, give teachers more teaching autonomy, provide more opportunities to participate in school management, and enhance their sense of responsibility.

Use scientific methods to manage schools, strive to establish a modern democratic management system, and appropriately use financial rewards, honorary rewards, emotional investment, role models and other means to mobilize the enthusiasm of teachers, stimulate teachers' internal drive, and generate team awareness , forming a sense of collective belonging. When teachers successfully complete their work goals and achieve results, they should be given financial rewards without discount according to the reward system, and should be awarded honors, affirm their achievements, and create incentives and demonstration effects. When teachers encounter difficulties in work, finance, family, etc., they should lend a helping hand so that teachers have no worries and can work with peace of mind. Regularly holding some activities, such as cultural and sports activities, visits and seminars, academic exchange activities, etc., can stimulate teachers' work enthusiasm, increase their sense of belonging, and form a harmonious environment.

5.3. Strengthen self-cultivation and make self-psychological adjustments.

This is very important. Specifically, we should pay attention to the following points:

5.3.1 Maintain a spirit of optimism. People will always encounter difficulties and setbacks in their lives, and teachers are no exception. Teachers should not lose confidence when they encounter setbacks. They should rationally analyze the difficulties encountered, seek truth from facts, look at the problem in two parts, find out methods and ways to solve the problem, and see in the dilemma that the road is tortuous but the future is bright. Bright?, cultivating a cheerful and open-minded character, which is beneficial to the body, mind and work.

5.3.2 Carry out physical exercise to enhance confidence and courage. Regular physical exercise can not only enhance your physical fitness, but also relieve stress through physical exercise and maintain a cheerful and happy mood.

5.3.3 Enhance social adaptability and develop interpersonal relationships. Carnegie said that interpersonal relationships account for 85% of the factors in a person's success, which fully shows that interpersonal relationships are very important. Teachers should actively engage in social interactions, participate in school and social collective activities, maintain normal social interactions with students, colleagues, leaders, parents and friends, enhance mutual friendship, and satisfy each other's psychological needs. Only by treating others with tolerance and integrity can you be welcomed by others. Cultivate good social skills and establish harmonious interpersonal relationships through interactions with people.

5.3.4 Cultivate more hobbies and interests and savor life. The greater the work pressure, the more hobbies and interests a person should develop, such as listening to music, collecting stamps, outings, swimming, watching movies, etc. By appreciating art and embracing nature, one's depressed mood can suddenly become brighter. ?.

In short, professional burnout is common among teachers. For the physical and mental health of teachers and to improve the quality of education and teaching, we should all pay attention to and study this phenomenon, find solutions to it, and promote the healthy development of education. . 2017 Primary School Teacher Burnout Speech 2

Dear teachers, hello everyone!

The reason why excellent teachers are full of hope and feel happy about their profession is because they all have Care and care for students’ good virtues and ideological realm. They regard caring for students as an important part of their lives, as their main spiritual life and spiritual world. Because of this, they can gain a steady stream of motivation from their work to have fun and forget about worries. The successful experience of outstanding teachers tells us: as a teacher, if you want to overcome job burnout and gain a sense of happiness, you must learn to care for your students, so that you can gain joy and happiness in caring for students and in the growth of students.

However, after two or three years, when most teachers begin to feel that they are no longer new, they feel that they have encountered all the things they should encounter and learned all the things they should learn. Once you learn it, you will feel tired of teaching. The education and teaching process is no longer fresh. It is repeated all day long: preparing lessons, attending classes, marking homework, correcting, and tutoring. When a person feels that he is doing things mechanically and repetitively, burnout is inevitable. At this time, the only support for continuing to work is to live.

Occupational burnout is caused by a variety of factors, and different factors have different influences. Therefore, alleviating burnout is a very complex systematic project. It not only requires extensive attention from all walks of life and all strata of society, but also Effective measures must be taken at the individual level of students and teachers to improve the current status of school running and management and provide support and guarantee for teachers' work. To reduce the work pressure and burden of teachers and alleviate their burnout mentality, the following countermeasures can be put forward from three aspects: society, school and individual teachers.

1. Suggestions for society:

(1) Effectively improve the social status of teachers, form a social atmosphere of respecting teachers and valuing education, promote educational fairness, school balance, and legal government investment ensure. Economic income is an important measure of social status. Teachers' labor also needs economic and material means to adjust. It should be implemented to ensure that teachers' salary is not lower than the average salary level of civil servants. Only by making their income rank at the forefront of other industries, Only in this way can we truly make this profession a profession that everyone admires and fundamentally alleviate the inner conflicts of primary and secondary school teachers.

(2) To establish reasonable expectations, the whole society and families must form a joint force with school education to jointly shoulder the responsibility and mission of cultivating the next generation.

(3) Evaluate teachers objectively and fairly. Teachers are not omnipotent, nor are they saints who do not eat the fireworks of the world. We must respect teachers’ creative work and use empathy to evaluate teachers day after day and year after year. A year of educating people gives me more understanding and support.

2. Suggestions for education administrative departments and school management.

(1) Strengthen teachers’ professional ethics education. Educate teachers with a correct world outlook, outlook on life, and values, cultivate teachers' dedication and joyful spirit, love education, have the courage to face various difficulties, have a strong will in the face of setbacks, and have an optimistic and enterprising spirit.

(2) Full attention should be paid to the impact of teachers’ mental health problems on school education and teaching. It is necessary to create a good campus environment and atmosphere as much as possible, learn more about the actual situation of each teacher, put people first, consider problems in an all-round way, and arrange work reasonably. At work, we try our best to discover the shining points of every teacher, use material and spiritual methods to motivate them, and meet their reasonable needs.

(3) Reduce the burden on teachers, that is, reduce the unnecessary psychological burden on teachers as much as possible, and change the system in which teachers are evaluated based on their academic performance and enrollment rate and are linked to various welfare benefits. practice and establish a developmental evaluation mechanism for teachers.

(4) Reduce the number of inspections and evaluations, try to focus on education and teaching work, cancel meaningless inspections and the preparation of various materials, increase investment in education and emotion, and make career development, personnel and treatment It retains people and warms them emotionally.

(5) Establish a psychological counseling institution for teachers, a paid training and recuperation system, establish a teacher activity club, and organize amateur cultural and sports activities for teachers. Cooperate with colleges and universities to organize teachers to study the content of cultivating psychological quality, so that teachers can understand the knowledge about educational psychology, social psychology, psychological counseling theory and technology, conduct self-confidence training, and effectively cultivate adaptability and creativity. ability, a new generation of teachers with good emotional and will qualities and the ability to compete and cooperate well.

(6) Build a professional platform for young and middle-aged teachers, pay attention to the development of this group, improve their abilities, and enhance their cultivation.

(7) Strengthen the construction of campus culture, carry out various forms of campus cultural activities, and enrich teachers’ life interest.

(8) Establish the concept of teacher development in schools, put teachers first, and strengthen teachers’ sense of identity and belonging to the organization and school.

3. Suggestions for teachers

(1) Treat stress correctly and adjust your cognitive mentality in a timely manner. Mental load is the reflection of objective things on the human body and mind. Psychological research shows that teachers' self-psychological load and emotional experience have three meanings.

First, teachers have insufficient understanding of their own abilities and levels, overestimate themselves, and have unrealistic self-expectations, which often leads to failure in activities and causes psychological burden and anxiety. The second is the personality defects of teachers themselves, such as the psychological pressure caused by thoughts of fame and fortune, worries about gains and losses, pursuit of perfection, and poor willpower. The third is the psychological pressure caused by incorrect ways and angles of thinking about problems. Therefore, as an individual teacher, it is very important to treat work pressure and situations correctly and adjust the cognitive mentality in a timely manner. Because people are independent and special individuals. Only the deeper you understand yourself, the more you can help yourself effectively adjust to difficulties in work, life, and inner life.

(2) Enrich your life and learn to relax yourself. Relaxation refers to the process of changing the body or mind from a tense state to a relaxed state. When you feel constantly stressed, a few minutes of continuous relaxation is often better than an hour of sleep. In addition to daily swimming, walking, doing exercises, listening to music, chatting with family or friends, going to a beauty salon to change your hairstyle, or adding some moisture to the skin and other relaxation methods (you can also learn relaxation training techniques to cope with stress), Once you have an anxiety disorder or a depressive disorder, you might as well find a way to take a few days off, travel, and get close to nature. The fresh air, the pleasant scenery, and the chirping of birds and insects will sweep away the gloom in your heart.

(3) Hone your will and enhance your personal stress resistance. How much psychological pressure external stimulation causes people is actually determined by each person's own stress resistance. For the same stimulus, people with stronger stress resistance will feel less psychological pressure, and vice versa. People's resistance to stress is acquired. Teachers should strengthen their personality cultivation, strengthen the cultivation of independence of will, decisiveness, self-control and other qualities, enhance their sense of responsibility and mission in teaching and educating people, not yield in the face of pressure, not shrink in the face of difficulties, and learn to be conscious and flexible Control your emotions properly and overcome the interference of bad emotions.

(4) Learn to communicate. Enhance social adaptability. Psychologists have long proposed that human psychological adaptation is the adaptation to interpersonal relationships. Individuals with good interpersonal relationships have cheerful personalities and strong tolerance for setbacks. Practice has proven that successful teachers are often willing to interact with students and others, especially teachers who are good at dealing with students. Teachers should truly be students based on their psychological expectations. mentor.

(5) Insist on appropriate physical exercise. Physical exercise can help teachers significantly reduce stress and burnout. On the one hand, physical exercise makes the body strong, energetic and enhances coping ability; on the other hand, the time spent on exercise reduces the time spent in stressful situations. Some exercises such as Walking, jogging, etc. can also provide rare "free" opportunities to reflect on problems and find strategies to solve them. Physical exercise should be regular and consistent, with the principle of moderation and entertainment.

(6) Be proactive and strive to improve your own quality. With the changes in society, teachers can only become a qualified educator by understanding their role and situation, having good psychological quality and professional adaptability, possessing advanced educational concepts, working hard to study teaching methods, and exploring the methods of learning. Only teachers can relax and freely teach, reduce burnout, and promote the all-round development of students with their own high quality.

The revitalization of the nation lies in education, and the revitalization of education lies in teachers. Teachers' professional burnout not only involves teachers' personal physical and mental health issues, but also maintains the healthy growth of students and the core competitiveness of talents. The root cause of teacher burnout is not only the personality factors of individual teachers, but also involves deep-seated areas such as social issues and professional issues at a larger level. Therefore, teacher burnout has become a problem that cannot be ignored, and all sectors of society should care about education with a pragmatic attitude. , care about teachers.