Teacher’s Occupational Stress Among Special Educators with Regards to Years of Experience

Abstract

Teachers are playing the role of central actors in education, facilitators of learning and knowledge. Especially for special educator it is always occupational burden about workload as individual therapy design, slow progress in children, unclear economical structure and handle problematic behavior of special children. So, purpose of the present study is to find out   the occupational stress among special educators who are having experience of more than 5 years and less than 5 years. The sample constituted of total 80 special educators out of which 40 were having less than 5 years of experience and more than 5 years of experience.  Teachers’s occupational stress of special educators was assessed   by using   scale developed by Sajid Jamal & Abdul Raheem and   Statistical technique: t- test was applied to find out the significance of difference between means. The results indicated there was significant difference in quality of life   between special educators who are having less than 5 years experience and more than 5 years of experience.