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"The teacher burnout and the new educational reality as a challenge of cooperation and professional enhancement"

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Visit Norway.

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We took part in the LTTA in Norway

18-22 September, in the city of Bergen, within the project “Teachers Burn-out”, a study visit to the local school was held.

Participants discussed the project’s progress and learned about the Norwegian approaches against teachers burnout in the educational syste

 

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Mobility to Norway

An Erasmus mobility is all about communication, collaboration, friendship and acceptance.

Bergen, Norway 18 – 22.09. 2023

Teacher Burnout: Causes, Symptoms, and Prevention 2

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Dyslexic Awareness Month

In Lithuania, as in the whole world, September is celebrated as Dyslexic Awareness Month.

“Saulė” school participates in this initiative and has become a dyslexia-friendly school !

 

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We back with unusual ways to slow down and deal with burnout.

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🔥 Recognise that passion makes you more vulnerable to burnout

In the self-help classic, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, Robin Sharma writes: “A burning sense of passion is the most potent fuel of your dreams”. You’ve heard it before – if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day. 🗣But at the same time, entrepreneurs are no strangers to this. This explains why the term ‘entrepreneurial burnout’ has been coined and attributed to a mistaken belief that following your passion means sacrificing everything at hand.😓

👉 David Whiteside, who holds a PhD in organisational behaviour, explains: “Despite the clear benefits of feeling meaningfully connected to your work, our data suggests that there are often real and undiscussed complications of purpose-driven work on employees’ health that can be related to the experience of burnout long-term”.

💭 Embrace ‘niksen’ (the Dutch art of doing nothing)

Niksen – doing something without a purpose, like sitting still, daydreaming or staring out the window. It’s forcing your mind to be idle, to have no intentions.

📃 In her article for Forbes, The Fastest Way to be More Productive is to Slow Down, Amy Blaschka writes: “Research has found that when we’re idle, we allow our minds to wander. And that daydreaming makes us more creative, better at problem-solving and better at coming up with creative ideas”.

✍️ She continues: “Our culture does not promise sitting still, and that can have wide-reaching consequences for our mental health…Practising niksen can recharge our batteries”.🔋👍

Recognise burnout as a workplace problem, not a people problem, author and workplace expert Jennifer Moss suggests a good place to start: “First, ask yourself as a leader, what is making my staff so unhealthy? Why does our work environment lack the conditions for them to flourish?”.👩‍💼

 

 

A visit from Italy

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On Thursday the 14th of September,  Alessandra de Leo from Liceo Scientifico Statale N. Copernico,

partner of our Erasmus project, visited Rhodes and 4th GEL Rodou.

She spent time in class, she met teachers and students and discussed with them

about the educational system and every day school life in Italy.

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Someone says: In life if you have goals, they have a price tag that includes pain and hard work.

💁‍♂️ According to today’s “guest” Sadhguru, resilience is a sure way to mess yourself up and complain about everything because you’re doing everything too hard. Once your intelligence is turned against you, no power in the universe can save you. This is a serious mistake. Whole generations have done that: if you study, you should study hard; if you work, you should work hard. Why didn’t they tell you to study joyfully or work “lovingly”. 🥰

🧐 There is substantial medical and scientific evidence to show you only when you’re in a pleasant state of your body and your brain work at their best. So, let’s keep our intelligence working for us and feel blissful.

⚖️ Create Sadhana – Sadhana means doing whatever it takes so that my body, energy, emotions, and thoughts are in my hands. “If you gain mastery over your physical body – the biggest chemistry factory in the world, 15 to 20% of your life and destiny will be in your hands; if you take charge of the very life energies that you have, one hundred per cent of your life and destiny will be in your hands”.

🚫“Everybody thinks their profession is the most difficult one. If any human being is creating something they REALLY CARE for, there will be no burnout; we can work 365 days a year, and we may die from physical exhaustion, but not from burnout or boredom. Those things will never happen to us.”

Teacher bunout Research

Work significantly affects human life and health. Modernisation, along with advantages, also has disadvantages and its own price. It is accompanied by constantly growing stress in all spheres of life. Long-lasting and strong stress results in professional burnout, destroys working motivation and the sense of happiness and luck in life. In that case, the productivity and the quality of service decrease, which induces a great economic damage.

Today, our society and school are looking for the most effective means of implementing the ever-increasing changes in the education system. Special attention is paid to teacher’s profession and personality and specific requirements for the teacher. This causes permanent emotional tension that can lead to teachers’ burnout at work. The studies show that the employees, the essence and content of work of which are frequent and intensive contacts with other people (medical doctors, pedagogues, social workers, managers, etc.) experience strong psychical load, which eventually manifests in emotional distress, loss of interest in the activities, disruptions in communication and deteriorating physical state.

The work stress of a teacher is determined by the specific circumstances of this position and the corresponding workplace. A teacher’s working day usually does not end after leaving the school and the office. The burden of never-ending work and professional worries is inevitably carried by the teacher into the private environment, on days off and even on a teacher’s holyday. It is often much more difficult for a teacher than for representatives of many other professions to combine professional and family roles.

Burnout is a psychological term for the experience of long- term exhaustion and diminished interest. Burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed and unable to meet constant demands.

Burn-out is included in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) as an occupational phenomenon. It is not classified as a medical condition.

It is described in the chapter: ‘Factors influencing health status or contact with health services’ – which includes reasons for which people contact health services but that are not classed as illnesses or health conditions.

Burn-out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life (WHO).

In a chart below, you can see the main differences between burnout and stress:

Stress Burnout
Characterized by overengagement Characterized by disengagement
Emotions are overreactive Emotions are blunted
Produces urgency and hyperactivity Produces helplessness and hopelessness
Loss of energy Loss of motivation, ideals, and hope
Leads to anxiety disorders Leads to detachment and depression
Primary damage is physical Primary damage is emotional
May kill you prematurely May make life seem not worth living
Work-related causes of burnout Lifestyle causes of burnout Personality traits can contribute to burnout
Feeling like you have little or no control over your work. Working too much, without enough time for relaxing and socializing Perfectionistic tendencies; nothing is ever good enough
Lack of recognition or rewards for good work Being expected to be too many things to too many people Pessimistic view of yourself and the world
Unclear or overly demanding job expectations Taking on too many responsibilities, without enough help from others The need to be in control; reluctance to delegate to others
Doing work that’s monotonous or unchallenging Not getting enough sleep High-achieving, Type A personality
Working in a chaotic or high-pressure environment Lack of close, supportive relationships

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supriya Jha (2012)

Burnout is a gradual process that occurs over an extended period of time. It doesn’t happen overnight, but it can creep up on you if you’re not paying attention to the warning signals. The signs and symptoms of burnout are subtle at first, but they get worse and worse as time goes on. Think of the early symptoms of burnout as warning signs or red flags that something is wrong that needs to be addressed. If workers pay attention to these early warning signs, they can prevent a major breakdown. If people ignore them, they eventually burn out.

Physical signs and symptoms of burnout Physical signs and symptoms of burnout Physical signs and symptoms of burnout
Feeling tired and drained most of the time Sense of failure and self-doubt Withdrawing from responsibilities
Lowered immunity, feeling sick a lot Feeling helpless, trapped, and defeated Isolating yourself from others
Frequent headaches, back pain, muscle aches Detachment, feeling alone in the world Procrastinating, taking longer to get things done
Change in appetite or sleep habits Loss of motivation Using food, drugs, or alcohol to cope
Increasingly cynical and negative outlook Taking out your frustrations on others
Decreased satisfaction and sense of accomplishment Skipping work or coming in late and leaving early

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supriya Jha (2012)

The research disclosed that special education teachers more frequently experience emotional exhaustion. The research also demonstrated that self-oriented perfectionism correlates with all the scales of job burnout (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment). A multivariate regression analysis showed that such variables as self-oriented perfectionism and age predict 60.3 percent of emotional exhaustion variation (Navaitienė; Danilovienė, 2017).

Even when teachers experiencing burnout stay on, students pay a price. Teachers overwhelmed by stress use less effective teacher strategies. This affects the clarity of their instruction and classroom management. It also results in less stimulating classroom environments. A study in the Journal of Educational Psychology found that teachers experiencing burnout at the beginning of the school year had notably worse classroom management by the spring than other teachers. Their classrooms also suffered from significant student disruptions.

Bubelienė, Merkys (2013) in their research names the further directions of relevant research. It focuses a discussion and recommendations: a) to develop focuses on educational environments in higher education, which would allow to form a hobby for future specialists, b) to develop the recreational infrastructure at universities and schools as in socially responsible organizations, c) to give the status of public value to teachers’ leisure organization and to support this activity.

Teachers who have a hobby and are regularly engaged in it have significantly less expressed symptoms of burnout than those who have no hobbies at all or do have but are little involved in it or are engaged in a hobby very rarely (Bubelienė, Merkys, 2013).

The act of teaching is giving opportunities, ideas, knowledge, and guidance to students. But teacher can’t do this effectively if they are running on empty. Teacher should take care of their needs, balance their life for optimum health, and regularly check in on their own mental wellness. That’s the best system for beating burnout—or avoiding it entirely!

Professional BURN OUT prevention
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