There are three main symptoms of teacher burnout

Typical symptoms of burnout are low job satisfaction, loss of enthusiasm and interest in work, and emotional detachment and apathy. Marles et al. used the scale format to identify three core components of burnout:

1.Feeling of exhaustion: It is the feeling that the individual is running out of energy and resources.

It is mainly manifested in two aspects: physiological exhaustion and emotional exhaustion. Physiological exhaustion is manifested by extreme chronic fatigue, inadequacy, fatigue and weakness, sleep disturbances, etc.; Emotional exhaustion refers to the loss of enthusiasm for work, mood swings, anger with others, and feelings of extreme emotional fatigue.

2.Depersonalization: It refers to deliberately keeping a distance between oneself and the person you work with, and adopting an attitude of indifference and neglect towards the person you work with and the environment.

Depersonalized teachers manifest themselves as reducing contact or refusing to admit students; Some students are treated like inanimate objects; Addressing them with contemptuous appellations; Use tag-style language to describe individual students.

3.Low personal fulfillment: refers to a tendency to evaluate oneself negatively, a decrease in personal fulfillment, a decrease in self-efficacy, a decrease in the evaluation of the meaning and value of one's work, a decrease in the evaluation of the meaning and value of one's work, a tendency to work to become mechanical and inefficient, and a lack of adaptability.

It is burnout, and the three typical manifestations are mainly the first one, the work is repetitive, the second is unwilling to accept new things, and the third is the rigidity of educational methods.

Teachers can also suffer from professional burnout.

This is a fundamental situation that will exist in every profession.

The cause of teacher burnout is stable work and fixed work content, and the response is to find new flashpoints.

Emotional exhaustion (emotional exhaustion), dehumanization (depersonalization), low sense of personal fulfillment.

1.Emotional exhaustion (emotional exhaustion) is the core ingredient and the most representative indicator of burnout. It is the personal stress dimension of burnout, which is characterized by a lack of energy, a feeling of exhaustion of emotional resources.

The specific manifestations are inability to work, loss of enthusiasm, easy to anger others, often feel anxious, nervous, and emotionally depressed.

2.Dehumanization (depersonalization) is the interpersonal dimension of burnout, which is to regard the object of its service (student) as a "thing" rather than a "person", and tend to adopt an indifferent and numb attitude towards colleagues or students, that is, deliberately keep a distance between oneself and the person to work with, which is manifested in reducing contact or refusing to accept students, treating students as objects without feelings, treating students as one's own belongings, scolding or insulting students at will, and having a suspicious and jealous attitude towards colleagues.

3.Teachers tend to have negative evaluations of themselves, feel helpless and lose self-esteem, attribute frustrations at work to their own lack of ability, decreased professional motivation and enthusiasm, and lower satisfaction with their own work, and often have professional withdrawal behaviors, such as absenteeism or resignation.

There are many factors that lead to teacher burnout, mainly due to the following reasons.

a) The pressure of societal expectations.

Teaching is a special profession, the society has high requirements for teachers, teachers are considered the most glorious profession under the sun, the engineer of the human soul, and the diligent gardener. As Wilson puts it, "All characters who are highly accountable to people go through quite a bit of internal conflict and insecurity."

These excessively high social expectations often cause teachers to suppress normal needs, limit themselves too much and relate to various details, and may become unconfident and depressed, affecting their physical and mental health, and prone to professional burnout.

2) The burden of examination-oriented education.

For a long time, the promotion rate has become the educational goal and performance standard of schools, and people are still accustomed to using the promotion rate as a standard to measure the quality of schools and teachers. Schools rack their brains and put pressure on teachers for promotion rates. In the long journey of one-sided pursuit of higher education rates, teachers are under great psychological pressure and are in a state of physical and mental exhaustion for a long time.

3) Lack of fulfillment.

Ten years of trees, a hundred years of people", teachers do not train students to be able to see the effect as quickly as workers produce products, and the teaching effect needs students in social life, after long-term practice can be revealed. Moreover, this effect is not subjectively determined by the teacher, it needs to be internalized by the student to be reflected, and in real life, many students do not listen to the teacher's guidance, so the teacher spends a lot of energy, but the effect is difficult to show. Because of the long-term work and the lack of results, teachers are most likely to lose interest in their profession because they do not have a sense of accomplishment.

4) The loss of low status.

The economic status of teachers is the basis and symbol of their social status, and the meager salary makes it difficult for the social status of teachers to be truly reflected and promoted, many teachers are extremely disappointed, some leave their teaching posts to open up new horizons, and some fall into wait-and-see and hesitation, teaching is of little significance to them, and it is only a matter of time before they fall into professional burnout.

v) Boredom of the monotony of the environment.

Teachers live in a relatively closed environment, and the working environment is not only the classroom but the office and home, and there are few opportunities for contact with the outside world; Teachers' work and life are monotonous, in addition to attending classes, they are grading homework, urging students to complete their learning tasks and going 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 has always been in a delicate state, and the psychological problems of teachers have not been released for a long time. In this way, teachers are prone to the feeling of boring work and burnout.

6) A sense of crisis in the profession.

With the deepening of the reform of the education system, the teaching profession is also the same as other industries, the iron rice bowl has been gradually broken, and measures such as the separation of evaluation and hiring, competition for posts, and students' choice of teachers have made teachers generally feel a sense of crisis. Under the new situation, the increasing changes in educational methods and means have put forward higher requirements for teachers, making many teachers feel powerless.

1. The teaching effect has declined.

Teachers' physical and mental burnout will invisibly reduce the ability to educate students, and then the education and teaching methods will become mechanical, and the work efficiency will be low, which will eventually lead to a decrease in the quality of teaching.

2. Interpersonal tension.

Emotionally melancholy and aggressive, relationships become alienated and conflicts increase. Some teachers use harsh corporal punishment against students, which is actually a "red flag" caused by physical and mental exhaustion and increased stress.

3. Causing self-physical and mental harm.

Teachers' burnout can lead to their own psychological disorders and mental illnesses, ranging from negative attitudes and bad emotions to neurasthenia and even mental breakdowns, which ultimately directly affect their physical and mental health.