PROFESSIONAL BURNOUT OF TEACHERS
Abstract
The article reveals the essence and structure of burnout, describes the subjective and objective stressors, symptoms and stages of teachers' burnout, explores ways to prevent the negative effects of emotional burnout. Burnout is one of the most common reasons that teachers are leaving their profession, and it contributes to the increased teacher turnover rate in the past few decades. Teacher burnout is an extreme form of chronic stress that can affect any educator, regardless of how experienced or passionate they are about their jobs. It is hypothesized that prevention of teachers burnout should be based on the idea of psychological means as determined by socio-cultural formative influences of psychotechnical tools. The essence of the burnout syndrome as been revealed as well as modern psychological studies of this phenomenon in teachers.