Self-education of a higher school teacher as a way to prevent professional burnout

Professional activity of a teacher is carried out in the conditions of increased emotional stress, connected with work, relations inside a teaching staff and with administrators of an educational institution that can lead to professional burnout of a specialist. The authors give a generalized characteristic of a teacher's professional burnout. The reasons of professional burnout, to which teachers of a foreign language in the higher education institution can be subjected, are investigated and the ways to prevent this condition are revealed in the article. The main attention in the article is drawn to self-education as one of the effective ways of preventing the emotional stress at the working place. Such types of self-education as situational, situational-initiative and initiative are distinguished and described. The significant role of job approval rating of faculty members in creating a motivational basis for self-education is emphasized. This article is devoted to a detailed analysis of actual ways of self-education, which are available to a modern teacher of higher education. The article reveals features of some educational resources and their potential for prevention of teacher's professional burnout. The article substantiates the idea that self-education promotes the improvement of professional level, personal development, acquisition of additional skills, helps to get approval in a professional team, and also activates creative activity.