Investigation And Study On Job Burnout Of Secondary Vocational School English Teachers

With increasing of the demand for high quality education and the education entering to a so-called "deep water area",as a unique group of teachers,vocational English teachers’ job burnout tends to be more and more serious,which may cause a negative impact to the teachers themselves and the students.Taking 21 English teachers in Wenling Taiping Senior Vocational School as an example,we focus on this issue.The literature search,questionnaire investigation,interview and compare research are performed to recover the reason of occupation burnout.Potential intervention measures are put forward.The survey shows that the risk of the vocational English teachers’ job burnout is high.Most of them have a more seriously tendency of job burnout,especially the emotional exhaustion.The factor of Secondary vocational school English teachers’ burnout sense is diverse,including gender,marriage,seniority,salary income,the class work,workload,position promotion,professional development,etc.,are most common.Administrators of the secondary vocational school pay a very little attention to this job burnout issue.The vocational English teacher shows a lack of effective ways to deal with the pressure.They often just wait negatively or "escape”.This will bring seriously harm to themselves and students.The research shows that the causes of occupational burnout of secondary vocational school English teachers are various.Social factors include social prejudice,impact by the missing authority,the pressure of living cost,etc.The factors from student include are the sharp decline of the quality of students;the increasing management difficulty with the vocational school students’ undisciplined activities;negative psychological emotions of secondary vocational school students,etc.School factors mainly display as heavy workload,long timework,quantitative managementmeticulous,low efficiency,too big professional integration range and increasing uncertainty of teachers;moreover,the new curriculum reform,the defect of the implementation mechanism of performance pay.As a teacher,the main reason is the role of overload,lack of self-regulatory capacity,low professional achievement,and difficult in promotion,etc.According to this survey,the way to slow down secondary vocational school English teachers’ burnout sense could be to establish "people-oriented" management philosophy,humanistic care,innovation mode of teaching,improve professional happiness.Furthermore,promoting the professional development of teachers in secondary vocational schools in various ways and forms,and establishing a flexible evaluation system,and strengthening teachers in secondary vocational schools to build their own mental health,enhance to stress and emotional management ability are also proposed.