Now a day’s Stress has become an inevitable part of human life. It is becoming a global phenomenon affecting all genres of people. In everyday life, working people have to face many situations, where they use coping strategies to come out of that. Stressful situation put them into lot of stress. The optimum level of occupational stress poses a risk to most organizations. Educators in particular have lot of pressure, they have to do dual job. They are on the one side dealing with diversified gentry of students and other side helping students in their development. The present study aimed to examine the occupational stress experienced by teachers working in Bhopal, and the coping strategies adopted by them. The study aimed to understand the conceptual framework of stress and coping, to find out the relationship between the dimensions of teacher stress and coping and to identify the causes of stress.

Keywords : Stress , stress coping strategies, Educational institutions.