Blending profiles of highly successful literacy teachers and practical, theoretically sound guidelines, this book argues for schools at all levels to provide opportunities for teachers to refresh themselves professionally and personally. The eight teachers profiled in the book employed a range of approaches for staying alive and creative in the…

Outlines a stress-strain model, examines administrator burnout, and suggests ways to manage stress. (PD)

Drawing upon data from teacher surveys, explores reasons that individuals decide to become teachers. Reviews the advantages and disadvantages of the profession and discusses job satisfaction, coping strategies, stress, and burnout among teachers. (GC)

The rationale in burnout prevention and intervention is providing employees with variety, flexibility, and personal control within the work situation. Variety results from multiple teaching methods, courses and schedules, sabbaticals and released time for projects, interchanging faculty and administrative role, flex time, job sharing, flexible…

Explores several crucial factors that may be involved in the high level of teachers' disenchantment with their work. Cites several approaches that teacher educators can use to help teachers cope with the pressures of teaching. (FL)

Describes factors specific to teacher motivation needs and job inducements that may be provided by school districts to promote better teacher performance. (FL)

School psychologists (N=43) participating in a workshop on burnout completed a burnout questionnaire, identified major job-related stressors, and responded to a list of suggested supervisory, individual, and organizational strategies for prevention. Slightly less than half of the participants appeared to have burnout problems. (Author)

Stress management can help teachers to identify stressors, find ways to deal with them, provide support for each other, and increase their self-esteem. (Author/JM)

This article attempts to list and explain the steps a teacher goes through from the beginning to the final stages of burnout. It also suggests possible behavioral steps to avoid or remediate the symptoms. (Author)

Identifies the occupational and personal characteristics and stressors that might be correlated with burnout among inpatient therapists (N=79) in substance abuse treatment facilities. Results show that recovering therapists had a higher sense of personal accomplishment than nonrecovering therapists. Therapists with more social support also enjoyed…

Research on stress, burnout, and family-work balance among extension agents in several states identified factors influencing stress. Effective stress management techniques were derived from successful extension workshops. Also needed are systemic changes in policies and in practices that contribute to high stress. (SK)

Questionnaires completed by 129 U.S. nurses and 71 from the Philippines revealed higher levels of emotional exhaustion and feelings of personal accomplishment in the United States. The Filipino work environment was rated higher for supervisor support, autonomy, control, and innovation. U.S. nurses reported greater work pressure. (SK)

Examines burnout and engagement among college students from Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands using the Maslach Burnout Inventory Student Survey (MBI-SS) and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale for students. Overall, these two instruments may be used for such a purpose, but both instruments, particularly the MBI-SS, do not pass a rigorous test of…

Includes an edited transcript of a listserv conversation among seven individuals who graduated in 1991 from the same program in technical communication. Provides insights for students preparing for careers in the field and for the professors who instruct them. Highlights some structural issues that drive many talented people from the profession.…

Subjected gifted student data (N=311) to factor analyses for Student Stress Inventory and Maslach Burnout Inventory to assess factorial validity; five stress and three burnout factors were evident. Found significant relationships between stress, burnout, tedium, and, to a degree, quality of school life variables. (Author/NB)