STUDY OF STRESS LEVEL OF TEACHERS WORKING IN ‘SCHOOL FOR DEAF’ IN PUNE

Teachers working in deaf school play a vital role in shaping over all personality of deaf children. They teach them with the help of variety of techniques and equipments. While teaching to deaf students they have to face lot of challenges in making subject interesting and making it understandable. Researchers have made an attempt to identify what are the major problems are faced by these teachers. In the course of teaching what is the level of stress teacher undergoes. The researchers have tried to conduct this study in residential schools of Pune, imparting primary and high school education to deaf children. There are presently about 10 such deaf schools in Pune city. Total number of school teachers working in these schools is near about 85. This study is carried out during the period of January to March, 2013. Questionnaires were distributed to the teachers working in these schools. Questionnaires filled in all respect were analysed and conclusions / findings drawn and suggestions given appropriately. Questionnaire consisting question pertaining to Pressure on the job, Disagreement and indecision, Communication and comfort with supervisor, Conflict related to job description, Work overload, Health issues: job related, Stress due to boredom, Time pressure, Work under-load stress, Stress related to job barrier and Problem of job security. Findings of this study can be more useful, if taken seriously in order to make teaching learning process easy and effective for the better tomorrow. We can reduce the stress level arises due to the reasons mentioned above and make this teachers’ community life stress free. Keywords- Stress, Deaf School, Pressure, Boredom, Job Security.