Confucius Burnout and Its Implications for teachers.doc

Confucius Burnout and Its Implications for teachers Abstract: As early as 2,500 years ago, to write papers on behalf of Jesus Christ Shibiao as Confucius put ‘tireless in teaching’ as a teacher to reach the realm of personal integrity is one. 2,500 years later, numerous teachers were plagued burnout. Therefore, as teachers should look for ideas from Confucius to overcome job burnout key to open the door leading to the Masters. Keywords: Confucius; job burnout; self-adjustment I. Introduction In recent years, occupational burnout has been seriously troubled by many of my teachers. December 6, 2004 China Human Resources Development Portal released by China ‘Job Burnout Index’ survey, [1] 50.34% of the teachers there are different levels of occupational burnout situation. Teachers, teacher burnout is due to long-term work in a stressful situation, at work and the fatigue continued to get along with others in the process of frustration intensified, culminating in the emotional, cognitive, behavioral, etc. to show exhausted, apathetic The high level of mental fatigue and tension, is a form of abnormal behavior and psychology [2]. Psychological burnout of teachers of teachers directly affects the mental and physical health, their enthusiasm and creative passion much wear and tear, and become a lead to a teacher to teach disgust, level of education or even difficult to play an important reason for the loss of human resources and ultimately the quality of education will inevitably lead to decline. Why do teachers will produce burnout, what factors have contributed to the incidence of teacher burnout? According to burnout (burnout) the pioneer of the concept of H. J. Freudenberger’s point of view [3], fatigue is a kind of emotional exhaustion symptoms, when the work itself to the individual’s ability, energy and resources of excessive demands, leading to worker emotional exhaustion, burnout, the burnout phenomenon came into being. According to this view, teacher bur