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OFlynn-Comiskey, Alice I. – Pointer, 1980
Among suggestions made to deal with teacher stress are engaging in relaxation training, identifying behavior response style, and balancing enjoyment with workload. (CL)
Descriptors: Coping, Elementary Secondary Education, Stress Variables, Teacher Morale
Warnat, Winifred I. – Pointer, 1980
The author examines the issues of teacher stress during middle age, and contends that the way teachers cope with stress in this period depends on their view of stress as either a producer of crisis or a promoter of change. (CL)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Coping, Emotional Adjustment, Middle Aged Adults
Butt, Fairfield – Pointer, 1980
Ways of handling stress in teaching are suggested, including acknowledging that stress is present, admitting one's own responsibility in creating any conflict or situation bringing about stress, examining more than one possible solution, and seeking help from someone who can actually affect the situation. (CL)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Coping, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Adjustment
Fimian, Michael J. – Pointer, 1980
The article emphasizes positive techniques which teachers can use to handle stress. Three major steps are outlined: identifying the problem, facing it, and developing personal or environmental management techniques for meeting and overcoming stress. (CL)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Conflict Resolution, Coping, Elementary Secondary Education
Werner, Anthony – Pointer, 1980
A school principal discusses ways in which principals can offer emotional support to teachers under stress and can help to prevent its occurrence. He suggests that principals can provide emotional distance. (CL)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Adjustment
Pattavina, Paul – Pointer, 1980
Excerpts from an interview with William C. Morse on teacher burnout concern special educators' sense of failure and impotence, the issues connected with individualized educational programs, and the importance of the first year of teaching. (CL)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Elementary Secondary Education, Special Education Teachers, Stress Variables
Foster, Robert E. – Pointer, 1980
Four stages of teacher burnout (survival, transition, creativity, and burnout) are considered, and a strategy of personal growth for teachers of severely handicapped, autistic children is suggested. (CL)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Autism, Coping, Elementary Secondary Education
Skinner, Michael G. – Pointer, 1980
The author reviews ways in which teachers reorganize to deal with stress, noting that such behaviors as rigidity, aggression, negativism, and withdrawal work toward disorganization and dissolution of the self. (CL)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Aggression, Coping, Elementary Secondary Education
Cline, Dan; Smith, Judy – Pointer, 1980
Programs in special education and business with implications for reducing teacher stress and burnout are described. Included are inservice programs focusing on personal and environmental stressors as well as on administrative remedies. (CL)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Influences
