Teacher Burnout:Challenges and Chancesin Our Cultural Context

Filiz EtizDepartment of Modern Languages

METUJune 2012

Teacher burnout is…

• Experienced by teachers who have been involved in teaching for a long time

• eliminated by a change in jobs

• virtually impossible to overcome once it gets hold of the body

• all about personality traits

• Changing world

• Academic environment

• Course specifics

• Physical environment

The Chances

• Changing world

• Academic environment

• Course specifics

• Physical environment