Rima International Journal of Education (RIJE), Vol. 1 (No. 1): May, 2022; 94 - 101: ISSN: 2756 - 6749 APPRAISING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BURNOUT AND JOB SATISFACTIONS AMONG PRIVATE SCHOOL TEACHERS FOR QUALITY EDUCATION IN WAMAKKO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, SOKOTO STATE 1 Salihu Mukhtar Nawait, Ph.D., 2 Lamido M. Rilwanu and 3 Usman Bukar Abba 1,2 Department of Educational Foundations, Sokoto State University, Sokoto and 3 Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Islamic University, Uganda e-mail: Muknawait@gmail.com Abstract The study investigated on the relationship between burnout and job satisfactions among private school teachers in Wamakko local government area. It was a cross sectional survey design which consists of 92 respondents (teachers) randomly selected from three purposively selected private schools representing thirty three (33) private schools in the study area. Adopted Maslach Burnout Inventory - Educators Survey (MBI - ES) and Job Satisfactions Survey (JSS) instruments were used for collecting data from the respondents. Two research questions and one hypothesis were formulated which guided the study and the data collected were analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlations with the help of SPSS Version 20. The results obtained shown the occurrences of burnout among the private school teachers for the first finding. The second finding revealed that there is significant relationship between burnout and job satisfactions of private school teachers in Wamkko local government area. The study recommended that school administrators should collaborate with their respective proprietors to find ways on how to avoid burnout among private schools’ teachers so that job satisfactions can be improved for better result . Keywords: Burnout, Job Satisfaction, Quality Education Introduction The term “burnout” was first used by Freudenberger (1975) to explain the phenomena of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion. Burnout is a condition when individual is emotionally, mentally, and physically exhausted as a result of excessive and prolonged stress. It takes place when individual feel emotionally drained, and unable to meet constant demands. If the stress persists, he begins to lose the interest or motivation that could lead to work dissatisfaction. When someone feels overworked he is at risk of burnout and the induced causes may include; lack of recognition or reward for good work, unclear or overly demanding job expectations, working in a chaotic or high- pressure environment, working too much, without enough time for socializing or relaxing, lack of close, supportive relationships, taking on too many responsibilities, without enough help from others resulting in insomnia. Private school teachers in Wamakko local government area are not stable, they move from one school to another in search of greener pasture. The fortunate ones will end up finding their ways into public schools. It is observed that teachers’ brain drained from private schools to government or public schools but hardly for teachers in public schools to ever make an attempt of moving to private owned schools. Is job burnout responsible for such phenomena or lack of job satisfaction?