A SAÚDE MENTAL DO PROFESSOR NO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL I

Abstract

This article aims to understand the mental health of Teachers in Elementary School I, inside the classroom, analyzing how the pandemic may have impacted the exercise of their profession. It is about the need for approaches to the mental health of teachers in Elementary School I, to understand how the mental and physical state of teachers is and why they are moving away from their positions. A bibliographic research was carried out, with analytical and descriptive orientation and the materials used were books and articles. The research points out that showing more clearly what has been happening with teachers can motivate them in the search for improvements in the preservation of mental and physical integrity, by adding knowledge about the teacher's mental health, we can have a better social contribution, thus reducing the distances of these professionals from the classrooms. Through the studies presented in this article, stressors have increased, such as excessive working hours, little time for planning and adapting the use of technologies, combined with social devaluation, impacting sharply on the mental health of teachers, increasing cases of Burnout.