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Dinham, Steve; Scott, Catherine – 1996
This paper describes the first phase of a study of teachers and school administrators in Western Sydney, Australia. A survey to measure teacher satisfaction, motivation, and health was designed based on findings from earlier research. Participants were 529 teachers and school administrators at 47 primary, secondary, and special purpose schools.…
Descriptors: Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Public School Teachers
Klis, Maria; Kossewska, Joanna – 1996
Empathy is a personality attribute involving the capacity to respond emotionally, cognitively, and communicatively to other persons without loss of objectivity and identity. Empathy is linked with helping behavior and with more effective professional functioning. The aim of this study was to investigate relations between empathy and personality…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Empathy, Foreign Countries, Helping Relationship
Sultana, Qaisar – 1996
This study of 98 special education teachers investigated the reasons for the high attrition of special education teachers in Kentucky. The participants were asked to give three reasons (in no more than one phrase) why in their opinion special education teachers leave special education and choose to teach general education. The most common reason…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Principals
Cutuly, Joan – 1993
Part essay, part poetry, part collage of student writing and personal reflections, this book uses metaphor to evoke the interactions and anguishes of a high school English teacher's day, a juggling act of efforts to help the demoralized and disruptive while still trying to make learning meaningful. In the book, the English teacher's students speak…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Environment, English Instruction, High Risk Students
Gmelch, Walter H.; And Others – 1994
This paper presents findings of a study that: (1) identified the most salient organization, personal, and professional factors contributing to administrator burnout; and (2) determined the relationship among these variables to each of the three dimensions of burnout. Data were obtained from a survey of 1,000 school administrators--169 elementary…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Burnout, Coping, Elementary Secondary Education
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. for Exceptional Children. – 1982
The manual is intended to help new teachers in North Carolina provide education and related services to handicapped and gifted students. The first section discusses general resources for beginning teachers. Topics covered include getting the room ready, preparing to manage behavior, enjoying the first day of school, managing classroom problems,…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Behavior Modification, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment
Richardson, Gloria D.; Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1989
The empowerment of teachers through collaboration, a supervisory trend currently receiving much attention and emphasis, employs variability and encourages cooperative decisionmaking. Despite its apparent popularity, collaboration can be viewed as unwieldy and difficult to manage with teachers who are already working under less than desirable…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Collegiality, Leadership Styles, Organizational Climate
Carraway, Cassandra Todd – 1987
As reflected in the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, no articles with the term burnout in their titles were published prior to 1978. However, by 1980 the number of articles about burnout had increased dramatically in an explosion of awareness of the problem. Various writers and researchers have identified the stressors…
Descriptors: Adults, Coping, Nurses, Nursing Education
Lagana, Joseph F. – 1984
This monograph is designed to give people engaged in human service activities some new and fresh ideas on how to handle stress, how to benefit from its positive aspects, and how to neutralize its detrimental effects. Part 1 provides a background statement and refers readers to an extensive bibliography provided at the end of the paper for those…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Burnout, Coping
Shuttenberg, Ernest M.; And Others – 1987
Inspired by recent literature on burnout, this study investigates several factors that may affect job satisfaction or dissatisfaction among public school teachers, building-level administrators, and counselors. The study explores the relationships between vocational personality types, as measured by Holland's "Self-Directed Search" and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Career Choice, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Satisfaction
Holt, Bess Gene; Karas, Shirley C. – 1986
The purposes of this handbook are (1) to help individuals who are thinking about becoming family day care providers decide whether the profession is appropriate for themselves and their families, and (2) to present ideas for setting up and maintaining a family day care home that provides high quality service to families, a developmental learning…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Business Skills, Community Resources, Discipline
Casteel, Jim Frank; Matthews, Doris B. – 1984
Following a description of the pattern of burnout symptoms, which include attitudinal, emotional, and physical components, measures are discussed for determining individuals' reactions to stress and their tendencies to "burnout." A discussion on strategies to cure or prevent burnout includes consideration of three basic methods: cognitive…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Modification, Biofeedback, Coping
Beasley, Carol R. – 1984
Research related to teacher stress and burnout has identified various factors related to stress in the areas of role conflict, job satisfaction, and role expectations. Two standardized measures, the Maslach Burnout Inventory and the Stress Profile for Teachers by Wilson, were used to assess stress and burnout in 606 regular and special education…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Change Agents, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Hughes, Thomas M.; And Others – 1987
A study involving 9 male and 109 female graduate students in educational psychology, who are or have been teachers, was conducted to investigate the relationship between teacher burnout and personality type, self-perceptions, and critical thinking ability. Subjects included 23 blacks and 95 whites, and the mean age of the sample population was…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Personality Measures
DeMoulin, Donald F.; Guyton, John W. – 1986
Whether principals could identify teaching traits and categorize these consistently as descriptors of instructional stages was studied by asking 145 randomly selected principals in public schools throughout Illinois and Indiana to characterize teacher behavior based on experience. Principals were asked to list instructional stages, yielding 161…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Career Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Analysis
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