TEACHER FREEZING AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS-AN ANALYSIS FROM URBAN INDIA

ABSTRACT : Quality education is a pre-requisite for national, regional and global development. For deliveryof quality education, we need quality teachers. The success of any educational system depends much on therequisite qualities of teachers. The report of Kothari Commission (1946-1966) mentioned that “Of all thefactors which determine the quality of education and its contribution to national development, the teacher isundoubtedly the most important. It is on his personal qualities and character, his educational qualification andprofessional competence that the success of all educational endeavors must ultimately depend.” But the rapiddevelopment of technology, rich information system, explosion of knowledge has brought a correspondingchange in the life and work of people. India in twenty first century is quite different from India of 1947 in termsof social, economical, political and moral values. India has reached at the threshold of space and made a markinformation age due to industrialization and electronic revolution. But the new disease which is hitting the fieldnowadays is „Teacher Freezing.‟ So the modern world which is said to be the world of achievements is alsoworld of stress. Stress and teacher freezing is closely associated. This paper analyse the status of TeacherFreezing among working teachers. Sample consists of 300 Teachers. The result indicate that Extent of TeacherFreezing among secondary school teachers are high. It highlight the consequence of stress among Teachers.

Keywords – Teacher Freezing,Teacher stress,Teacher quality,Work stress