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Smith, Frederick D. – BIA Education Research Bulletin, 1977
One of the principal problems the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has in carrying out its responsibility to educate Indian children is the high turnover rate among its teachers; a large proportion of teachers in the BIA school system leave after their first year or second year of work. Teachers at six elementary schools on the Navajo Reservation…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Mobility
Milstein, Mike M.; Golaszewski, Thomas J. – 1983
Meaningful stress management efforts should include analysis of both organizational and individual factors. Results of a June 1982 survey of 130 teachers in 4 Buffalo (New York) school district elementary schools indicate that feelings of organizationally based stress did not vary significantly according to such demographic variables as sex or…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Anxiety, Educational Environment, Elementary Education
Henderson, David L.; And Others – 1982
Two statewide surveys of Texas public school teachers who were members of the Texas State Teachers Association were conducted in l980 and in 1982. The 1980 survey, with 291 respondents, revealed that many teachers were considering leaving teaching. Of these, almost half cited low salaries as the chief reason. The survey also revealed that holding…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Followup Studies, Job Satisfaction, Multiple Employment
Kimble, Gregory A. – 1974
Information for newly appointed heads of graduate departments of psychology is presented as background material for the 1974 Chairman's Workshop. Topics include the following: the budgetary situation, pressures for increased teaching loads, effects upon recruiting faculty, faculty morale, graduate and undergraduate student morale, the intellectual…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Budgeting, Department Heads, Departments
Hollman, Marilyn J. – 1981
Composition teachers can learn from nonteachers who evaluate writing. A comparison of nonteacher and teacher responses to the same student writing revealed that the teachers were much more negative in their evaluations. Studies have also indicated that teachers did not grade according to their own declared criteria. These inconsistencies and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Fielding, Marianne A.; Gall, Meredith D. – 1982
The objectives of this study were to determine whether teachers' personality characteristics affect their perceptions of stress and burnout and whether school climate interacts with personality factors to influence stress and burnout. A random sample of 162 teachers in nine junior high/middle schools completed a questionnaire measuring perceptions…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Environment, Junior High Schools, Locus of Control
Denton, Jon J.; Lacina, Lorna J. – 1982
This study was conducted to determine differences between: (1) supervisors' ratings of instructional competencies of education majors and non-education majors in a semester of student teaching; and (2) evaluations by education majors and non-education majors of their morale during a student teacher program. Data were collected during one semester…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competency Based Teacher Education, Education Majors, Higher Education
Butterfield, Dennie – 1981
Concerns continue to be expressed as to how effective tenure has been in influencing the overall continued effectiveness of teachers who receive this permanent status. Teacher tenure is considered essential for protection of the teacher from capricious and arbitrary dismissal. However, there is concern about the lack of incentive to improve…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Boards of Education, Elementary School Teachers, Professional Recognition
Howey, Kenneth R., Ed.; Bents, Richard H., Ed. – 1979
Nine discussions identify needs and concerns of beginning teachers and call for a more concerted effort to ensure a smooth transition from preservice teacher to a working professional. An historical perspective on beginning teachers' problems and attempted solutions is provided in the first chapter. An interview with four beginning teachers…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College School Cooperation, Education Work Relationship, Educational Innovation
Estupinian, Rafael – 1979
Legislation in the State of California has mandated bilingual programs. They must be included by administrators developing mainstream curricula for California schools. Not all program administrators have complied with this legislation. Legal requirements for bilingual programs have raised philosophical, legal and teacher morale problems for…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Role, Bilingual Education, Compensatory Education
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1979
This guide is directed to education program administrators and basic education teachers in Job Corps Centers to help them understand how their functions relate to those of the center and to federal regulations and policies, and also to pass on some of the program experience accumulated by Job Corps teachers and administrators during the last dozen…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Educational Programs
Deever, R. Merwin; Shockley, H. Allen – 1975
The primary purposes of the doctoral dissertation summarized here were to identify the job satisfaction of teaching staffs of selected extended school year programs in operation during the 1971-72 school year and to analyze the opinions of teachers concerning the effects of the extended school year program on student achievement, pupil-teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Elementary Secondary Education, Extended School Year
MCFETRIDGE, J.D. – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THIS INVESTIGATION, MODELED AFTER A RPOFESSIONAL LOAD STUDY BY THE ALBERTA TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION, WAS TO ASSESS THE STATE OF ENGLISH TEACHING IN A NUMBER OF EAST LONDON SECONDARY SCHOOLS. SOME ASPECTS OF THESE FINDINGS WERE THEN COMPARED WITH CONDITIONS IN ALBERTA, CANDADA. INTERVIEWS WERE HELD WITH 69 EAST LONDON TEACHERS AND THE…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Audiovisual Aids, English Instruction, Secondary School Teachers
Kiyak, Havva Asuman – 1980
As the population of older Americans continues to increase, more and more elderly persons will seek diverse living arrangements. Residential facilities must be designed to meet their needs. Person-environment congruence may be an important determinant of residential satisfaction and relocation stress for the elderly. Residents (N=107) of eight…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Congruence (Psychology), Environmental Influences, Individual Needs
Newman, Katherine K.; And Others – 1980
As classroom teachers progress through their teaching careers, they may encounter stressful transitional periods. At about the tenth year, they decide whether to remain in the occupation and which teaching situation they should consider permanently. At about the twentieth year, they may evaluate their careers and revitalize themselves. There…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Modification, Career Change, Career Counseling
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