Teachers’ Assessment on Their Occupational and Technological Stress in the New Normal Basis for Wellness Intervention Programs

Emerging facts have been revealed that the pandemic negatively affect people's lives due to the newness of the nature of job and its processes. In this study, occupational and technological stress level of teachers are assessed to better understand them and respond their sentiments and hopes based on their needs as they face the force remote education system. Out of 270 teachers of Agusan del Sur National High School, 159 were randomly chosen as the respondents to the google form administered survey questionnaire. Results revealed that majority of the teachers have work life imbalance, are worn out physically, mentally and emotionally and having a hard time of relaxation that lead them the feeling of irritability and frequent headaches due to the workload and nature of job and responsibilities. The teachers' overall weighted mean WM on occupational stress level is average WM=3.16 which means that teachers are moderately stress in handling the new normal distance teaching learning process while the overall weighted mean on technological stress level is high WA= 3.46 . Furthermore, there is a strong significant relationship between occupational and techno stress levels which tells that both factors moderately associate from each other. Moreover, teachers aired their requests on upgrading of internet connection, the reinforcement through seminars on TPCK in the normal, the improvement of printed modules process flow, having destressing activities and relaxation, and the love and care of the school towards them. It is then recommended that the school would make a strategic plan in response to the teachers' suggested intervention programs. Jennyvi H. Papellero "Teachers' Assessment on Their Occupational and Technological Stress in the New Normal: Basis for Wellness Intervention Programs" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-5 , August 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd43908.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/43908/teachers'-assessment-on-their-occupational-and-technological-stress-in-the-new-normal-basis-for-wellness-intervention-programs/jennyvi-h-papellero