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Cardinell, Charles F. – Contemporary Education, 1981
Definitions are provided which permit an analysis of stress, career burnout, and mid-life professional crises among teachers. Burnout is defined as the mid-career deterioration of job performance. Observation of teacher burnout symptoms shows that many teachers lose commitment to the profession as their careers develop. (JN)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Anxiety, Career Development, Developmental Stages

Kaiser, Jeffrey S.; Polczynski, James J. – Peabody Journal of Education, 1982
Effects of stress on educators and efforts to understand and cope with stress are discussed. Sources of stress, common reactions to stress, the effects of stress on educator performance, and suggested preventive methods are examined. (JN)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Career Development
Amy, Chris; Smith, Becky F. – Campus Activities Programming, 1996
Campus activities programmers are encouraged to balance roles by: remembering their time is valuable; accepting their own imperfection; saying "no" when necessary; taking care of themselves; learning to request help and delegate; giving best time and energy to what matters most; focusing on life's positives; developing support systems; keeping a…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Burnout, Extracurricular Activities, Higher Education

Zabel, Robert H.; Zabel, Mary Kay – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2001
A replication of a study conducted nearly 20 years ago investigated teacher burnout among 300 special education teachers. Teachers' age, amount of experience, and preparation had markedly increased since the previous study. Age, experience, certification status, and preparation were not as significantly related to burnout as in the past. (Contains…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Disabilities, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education

Richey, Amanda; Petretti, Dante – English Journal, 2002
Details a preservice teacher's first experience tutoring in an inner-city high school, during which she found apathetic teachers and discouraged students. Notes that she does not want her upcoming student teaching experience to turn out the same way. Provides a response from another teacher, who suggests that apathy can be avoided if teachers are…
Descriptors: Apathy, High Schools, Inner City, Preservice Teacher Education

Todd-Mancillas, William R. – Thought and Action, 1988
Societal and institutional sources and appropriate interventions for faculty burnout are examined, and an approach to faculty evaluation that rewards quality instruction is recommended. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Faculty College Relationship, Faculty Evaluation

Byrne, Barbara M. – American Educational Research Journal, 1994
This study investigated the impact of organizational and personality factors on three factors of teacher burnout: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment. Results with 3,044 elementary, intermediate, and secondary teachers demonstrate that teacher burnout is not a unidimensional construct. (SLD)
Descriptors: Causal Models, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Problems

Borg, Mark G.; Riding, Richard J. – British Educational Research Journal, 1991
Discusses an examination of teacher stress, job satisfaction, absenteeism, career intention, career commitment, and self-image among secondary school teachers in Malta. Concludes that teachers who reported greater stress were less satisfied with teaching, more frequently absent, more likely to leave teaching, and less likely to reenter the field.…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Employee Absenteeism, Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction

Seitz, J. A. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1994
This article presents results of a study of the first-year teaching experience of 103 teachers of students with visual impairments in Illinois. The study identified needs of beginning teachers and offered recommendations for universities and school districts to curb these teachers' high rate of attrition. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Higher Education

Mendler, Allen – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems, 1994
Notes that working with students who have behavioral problems requires that professionals immunize themselves against burnout. Sees healthy adult mentoring as probably most salient human factor that helps at-risk youth make better choices. Contends that development of trust through bonding enables such youth to leave safety of their self-defeating…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems, Burnout

Wong, Ting-hong – Chinese University Education Journal, 1989
Investigates the impact of job satisfaction and changing jobs among secondary school teachers in Hong Kong. Finds teachers' job satisfaction is not high, and there is a low level of commitment to their profession and schools. Also significant was dissatisfaction with the nature of the job and social prestige of teachers. (NL)
Descriptors: Career Change, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction

Razza, Nancy J. – Mental Retardation, 1993
A model of direct care human service staff turnover was proposed and tested with 236 direct care staff members in 9 private, nonprofit New Jersey agencies. Four variables were found to be related to job satisfaction: (1) agreement of the job with personal goals and values; (2) burnout; (3) satisfaction with supervision; and (4) employment history.…
Descriptors: Attendants, Burnout, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
McCredie, John W. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1999
The recipient of an award for leadership in information technology (IT) in higher education discusses some considerations in approaching IT use, including finding balance and avoiding burnout; transformations made possible by technology; problems and frustrations of rapid technological advance; organizational values and IT; and the manner in which…
Descriptors: Burnout, College Administration, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperation

Davis, Joan; Wilson, Sandra M. – Clearing House, 2000
Finds a significant relationship between empowering behaviors of principals and teacher motivation (the higher the principal's score, the higher teachers' overall motivation score); but finds no relationship between principal empowering behaviors and either teacher job satisfaction or job stress, although teacher motivation was related to both job…
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Administrator Characteristics, Educational Research, Elementary Education

Byrne, John J. – Contemporary Education, 1998
Examined correlations between the literature about teacher burnout and data gathered from surveys conducted at a New York high school and college. Burnout tended to hit teachers in years 7 and 10. Its presence was devastating to teachers and their relationships with others. The main causes of burnout were feckless or uncaring administrators and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, High Schools, Higher Education, Secondary School Teachers