Survey On Burnout Of English Teachers In A Vocational Middle School In Beijing: A Case Study

Having been suppressed by the burden on the job and from the social context, teaching has become an occupation in which job burnout highly prevails. Teachers appear to bear more and more burnout. In order to investigate how often the burnout is in English teachers of the chosen vocational middle school in Beijing and to analyze the major factors which contribute to their burnout, the paper intends to utilize the methodologies of questionnaires (Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educators Survey) and interviews based on the established theories and measurements on burnout.Research results indicate that the English teachers in the chosen vocational middle school are bearing much more burnout than those in regular middle schools. Among many factors which contribute to burnout, the overload, the absence of job resources (e.g. a lack of support or feedback), and the institutional suppression stand out. However, we can still see these teachers'concerns for their students, such as their focus on the psychological issues of the vocational middle school students. What's more, they also have already taken actions to seek solutions to their students' psychological problems.Investigation on the virtual state of English teachers'burnout in vocational middles school could offer the educational administrative departments beneficial information, which would help them to take proper and effective measures to intervene in those teachers'burnout. In addition, it could also help boost the development of both the vocational school teachers and the vocational education around our country.