Implications of stress management and stress proofing in teaching learning process

Stress is a natural part of life. Every day there are responsibilities, obligations and pressures that change and challenge the life. However when this natural response is prolonged or triggered too often without sufficient adjustments to counter its effects, it can threaten the health and well being. A teacher's task is involved not only in teaching – learning process but also In learning – teaching process to make an effective educative process. A teacher's life is adversely affected but stress as it lowers his ability to function effectively. In order to equip teachers with proximal curriculum transaction skills, it is necessary to down size the stress full situations through stress management and stress proofing tactics. In this paper the writer says that there is a need to incorporate a well-knit mechanism of stress proofing and teaching excellence for conducive teaching- learning environment to be empowered. Teacher stress is a phenomenon which emerges due to the stressors. This causes potential threat to the rationality in repertoire of teaching, resulting in a general feeling of not being able to cope with the academic and non- academic endeavors’.