The all-round development of students depend on efficient teachers. Now a day it is found that there has been a deterioration of standard of teaching. The reasons behind this fact are varied. But the most important factor is lack of efficient teachers in our schools or lack of teaching efficiencies of teachers. Good mental health, better adjustment, satisfaction in job, interest, favorable attitude towards teaching profession, experience, sex and training etc, are some of the important factors which affect the teaching efficiency of the teachers. The present research is an attempt to explore the phenomenon of teacher stress. The theoretical perspectives on the focus area would be more appropriate here. The purpose of the study was to explore the levels of occupational stress among the teachers working in secondary schools & identify the relationship between the selected demographic data with occupational stress, the satisfaction & performance levels. The sample consisted of 300 teachers from 150 secondary schools in all over Odisha. The statistical techniques of descriptive statistics & Pearson’s coefficient were employed to analyze the data. The findings of the study indicated that female teachers are more satisfied & female teachers were belonging to high level of job performance, while 34.44 and 28.88 per cent of them had medium and low level. As high 71.12 per cent of teachers had medium to high levels of job performance. The teachers having more experience are seen to be having less stress. There is a statistically significant negative relationship among occupational role stress, job satisfaction & job performance.  Higher was the level of stress, lower would be the level of job satisfaction & job performance among the elementary school teachers. The male teachers are more stress.

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Keywords: Occupational Stress, Job Satisfaction, Job Performance & Elementary School Teachers.