Teaching, as a physically, emotionally, and socially demanding profession, subjects teachers to multiple sources of stress and challenge, jeopardizing their wellbeing and adversely affecting their performance in turn. English language teaching is no exception to this unwelcome trend. The study of the factors affecting English as a foreign language…

This book brings together diverse experiences at all levels of language education in Korea, from government to public and private education to business and industry, to identify the origin of the processes of change and the factors influencing their success. The chapters are written by widely respected and well-known academics from the top…

Effective teaching practices are essential for enhancing classroom instruction and student learning. However, a comprehensive understanding of the factors influencing teachers' instructional practices remains elusive. This study employs machine learning (ML) to identify the most significant predictors influencing the instructional practices of…

A growing body of literature indicates that Latinx immigrant families are adversely affected by restrictive immigration policies and anti-immigrant rhetoric. Little is known about how educators working with Latinx immigrant communities in restrictive immigration climates fare. Using mixed-methods, this study sought to better understand how the…

Today's teachers face intense stress (Robinson et al. in School Mental Health 15(1):78-89, 2023), which means they often need to regulate strong emotions, like frustration and anxiety, in the classroom. Given the importance of this skill for classroom life, it is essential that we gain a more nuanced understanding of teachers' emotion regulation…

In this scholarly personal narrative (SPN), I illustrate how I have engaged with a system that does not reflect who I am and against prevailing currents as an associate professor in higher education who came to the U.S. as an international student in the late 1990s from South America, to finally find my place and voice developing the International…

Concerns about teacher burnout, compassion fatigue, and retaining early career professionals have prompted teacher education programs to seek out ways to promote mental and emotional health during pre-service teacher training. This two-year, educational design study explored pre-service teachers' experiences with the implementation of two…

While we know that professionalization improves outcomes for teachers, education policy has effectively "deprofessionalized" teachers, especially those who serve immigrant English Learners. Based on a three-year case study, this paper explores how teachers in an immigrant-serving school exercised autonomy and authority over their…

This article examines the alienated labor of ALP writing instructors, who are being held accountable for a community college completion agenda that might not be best serving students. Discussing some of the larger historical forces and local institutional contexts impacting ALP teachers at CUNY, and drawing on recent studies of CUNY faculty, it…

The learning environment for students is affected by factors inside and outside of the classroom. Research denotes the relationship between students' learning environment and teachers' satisfaction with their job. Job satisfaction for teachers consists of several interpersonal, classroom, and school factors known as teacher working conditions…

Background/Context: Students with disabilities (SWDs) spend most of their day in general education classrooms. Notably, there has been a growing trend towards the placement of students with disabilities in these general education settings (Williamson et al., 2020), where general educators are the primary instructors of educating students with…

The present illustrative case study explored elementary teachers' perception of preparation for a pandemic-driven pedagogical shift. Third grade teachers from a South Florida school district that were teaching in a Title 1 school during COVID-19 pandemic and made the pedagogical shift (N=10) were selected to share their perspectives of the…

Almost three-quarters of instructors in America's higher education system are contingent faculty. Colleges and universities have increasingly relied on them as a flexible and cost-saving way to provide instructional services. Concerns over poor working conditions, low wages, and lack of job security have led to ongoing discussions about whether…

This study explores the relationship between teacher caring, teacher job satisfaction, and burnout in Kentucky alternative school teachers. The methodology was a cross-sectional, correlational web-based survey. Instrumentation included the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI), Teven's Teacher Self-Report of Caring Survey, and the Teacher Job…

Teachers experience a great deal of psychological distress. However, there is a gap in the literature concerning the difference between the distress of teachers working in urban schools versus those in non-urban schools. Thus, the present study utilizes data from the 2018 North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey to conduct a statistical…