ON THE PROBLEM OF PROFESSIONAL BURNOUT OF TEACHERS

Abstract

The article examines the essence of the concept of the essence of the concept of “burnout”, “professional burnout of a teacher”. Emotional burnout is the body’s reaction to a continuously increasing, stressful situation that has no relief. It manifests itself during active communication in the form of pronounced fatigue, lack of empathy, a decrease in the level of personal interest in the process of communicating with other people and the absence of any motivation. It is concluded that burnout manifests itself in teachers in the form of physiological, intellectual and emotional exhaustion, which has consequences in its manifestation in their professional activities, leading to disorders of self-perception and a reduction in professional advantages. Professional burnout leads to a decrease in the level of a teacher’s performance, and the motivation to successfully perform one’s work activities disappears.