55% of teachers in India struggle with the completion of regular tasks on account of work-related stress and tension, reveals a survey conducted by Zamit in the run-up to the upcoming World Mental Health Day.
The findings underline the extent to which the school teachers felt weighted down and constantly so, due to the high degree of pressure that comes with their job.
But on the other side, survey also highlights that the 71% of teachers acknowledging the role of edtech in managing their work pressure better thereby highlighting the ever-rising importance of edtech for teachers and indeed the wider school ecosystem. That nearly 85% of the teachers affirmed that edtech platforms and tools even helped them improve their teaching and other related skills further cementing their centrality in teachers’ professional lives.
The survey covered teachers across a wide spectrum of age groups and experience levels in the country accounting for a broad and inclusive representation of respondents. As regards the level of participation by age group, nearly 40% of the participants belonged to the age bracket of 30-40 years, followed by 25% in the age bracket of 40-50 years and nearly 20% below 30 years. Similarly, in terms of the extent of participation by experience levels, nearly 43% came with an experience of less than 10 years, 36% with experience of 10 to 12 years and 18% with an experience of 20-30 years.
To a specific query on whether they regularly found it hard to perform regular tasks due to psycho-emotional factors such as irritability, anger, sadness and anxiety, half of the respondents had answered in the affirmative with only a quarter of them responding in the negative. On another query on how emotional factors impinged on their performance, a substantial 47% reported diminishing of performance with only 23% acknowledging that emotional factors led to an improvement in their performance.
“On the upside, the survey has also brought to the fore the enormous utility of edtech in the lives and careers of school teachers. If mastered well, edtech does not merely help in improving efficiencies in terms of everyday teaching and other tasks for teachers, it can play an extremely valuable role in helping them better manage their work-related pressures, as attested to by the survey findings,” Aarul Malaviya, founder, director, Zamit, said.
