COMBATING TEACHER BURNOUT: PROVEN STRATEGIES AND PREVENTION TECHNIQUES

Stress is a response that our body puts in place to defend itself from external events that are perceived as harmful or dangerous. However, when the strategies put in place are no longer sufficient, the risk is that of encountering burnout syndrome.The teacher has a greater probability of developing burnout syndrome due to the conditions in which they work as they often lack the resources to achieve certain educational objectives, the salary is not adequately rewarded in relation to the educational function and very important skills are required such as emotional self-control and the ability to ensure cooperation and integration among students. In fact, it is appropriate to offer them effective strategies to deal with the onset of burnout syndrome. This research addresses this problem by conducting a survey among 45 teachers from few selected higher educational institutions in Chennai. The data are collected using the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), a questionnaire aimed at assessing the risk of burnout in educational profession. It is characterized by 22 items that investigate the three main scales of the questionnaire: depersonalization, reduced personal fulfillment and emotional exhaustion. This work focused in particular on establishing the general percentage of burnout within the cooperative and observing the resulting level of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal fulfillment.