• Dr. Raj Kumar Nayak
• Ms. Suchitra Dash

The present day education system fails to provide the teachers an appropriate financial as well as social status. It scarcely provides opportunities to the teachers for any type of inventive & artistic activities. It lacks the proper orientation in concept formation, techniques and the desirable value system to fulfill their role and responsibilities. Consequently the teachers are developing an indifferent and insensitive attitude towards their profession. Lack of passion, curiosity and interest among teacher while performing their duties; and also teacher’s inability to innovate in the process of teaching and learning is actually noticeable. Today, the teachers seem to be frozen. A negative psychosomatic understanding among teachers as a result or response to the occupation related stress is called teacher freezing. It is related to the feelings experienced by those people whose work involves continual contact to the emotionally charged social situations. For the educational system of any nation, teachers are considered as its important pillars. In fact, teachers are considered as the Nation Builders. So, in order to perform their duties in well defined manner, they need to be fit in all the aspects i.e. physical, mental, social. Dhull and Poonam (2015) investigated teacher freezing of secondary school teachers. Duffey, Bell and McGhee (1986) stated that it is believed that those individuals having a much better sense of humor are much more socially skilled; and for a socially competent person it may be easier to sustain relationships, to develop social support net works and also to attain mental and physical health benefits of getting community support system (Wills and Cohen, 1985). Garner (2005) explored the usage of sense of humour by the teacher within the classroom after which realized that the real utilization of laughter in the classroom as being a learning strategy has constantly been contributed around theimproved retention of shown material,better understanding of the subject matter, and in the development of more at ease teaching learning environment. Various stakeholders of education, viz. students, parents, administrators, academicians and community, the complaints of teachers’ lethargy, indifference and apathy are the chief cause for deteriorating standards of education.

Teacher Freezing, Secondary School Teachers, Sense Of Humour, Organizational Climate, Adjustment

"Teacher freezing among secondary school Teachers in relation to their sense of Humour organizational climate and Adjustment ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no.984-995, November-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811C49.pdf

"Teacher freezing among secondary school Teachers in relation to their sense of Humour organizational climate and Adjustment ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no. pp984-995, November-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811C49.pdf