Investigation On Professional Pressure And Develoment For Teacher In High School

It should not be ignored as occupational stress has already become a common phenomenon and paidgreat harm on many teachers’ body and mind. In this paper, we conduct a study on occupational stress ofteachers in city senior high school through methods such as questionnaire and interview etc. Based on suchsurveys, we want to provide some parameters related to occupational stress of teachers and some effectivesuggestions related to administrations for managers in city senior high.Based on analyses of data of questionnaires and interviews from197teachers from17senior highschools distributed in6city zones of Nanjing city, we found66%of the interviewed thought occupationalstress relatively great and27%felt the stress very great. Additionally, we also found some distinctcharacters related to occupational stress of the teachers. For example, of the interviewed, females feltgreater stress than males, teachers felt greater stress than managers, teachers in senior class felt greaterstress than those in junior class, teachers who teach key courses felt greater stress than those teach commoncourses, teachers in charge of classes felt greater stress than common teachers, and extent of teachers’occupational stress was association with status of the schools who were in.In our opinion, there are7exterior factors account for occupational stress of teacher in city senior highschool, they are orderly as examination for enter a higher school, steering student, affairs related ofadministration, education innovation, content of occupation, welfare treatment, and relationship betweencolleagues. And the intrinsic factors which account for the stresses are individual opinion of merits, statusof body and mental, and demands of self development etc.As managers in grass roots of educational cause, in order to improve efficiency of management and relaxthe occupational stress of teachers in senior high school, they should focus on7strategies related ofeducational management as follows.(1) developing appraisal mechanism, which can rectify the errors inthe appraisal system;(2) mechanism of forecast for occupational stress, which can relax the stress ofteachers at anytime and can avoid the accumulation of the stress;(3) notion of humanism solicitude, whichis a shock absorber for management institution;(4) notion of regard as people as roots, which can also relaxthe stress of teachers;(5) psychological education for teachers, which can improve the health level ofpsychology of teachers.