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The benefits of the profession are being eroded.
It’s important that employers and employees understand sympathy, empathy and compassion, and consider these emotions’ roles in both job performance and employee relations.
It’s not just COVID-19. Low salaries, subpar working conditions and lack of resources in the classroom are three of the reasons why teachers are abandoning the profession.
Looser requirements for teacher certification don’t fix teachers’ problems, which are low pay, high workload and lack of respect.
A new study finds a three-year trial of the ‘reflective circles’ approach to peer support offers a way forward for teachers whose already stressful jobs have become even tougher during the pandemic.
Difficulties in attracting and retaining teachers have a lot to do with the conditions they find themselves working in. Here are 3 ways to develop a school system that’s fairer and better for all.
With teachers reporting record-high levels of burnout, and more burnout than any other profession in the US, scholars examine what’s going on and what it may mean for education.
High-stress schools undermine teachers’ commitment and risk losing even more from the profession at a time of growing staff shortages. But schools can take steps to reduce the causes of stress.
Despite signals of increased turnover, the past two years have not experienced mass departures from the teaching profession.
“June-tired” has taken on a whole new meaning for educators this year. What can be done this summer to help them recharge and recover?
Provinces have struggled to mitigate the COVID-19 health concerns of full-time and substitute teachers. The need for substitutes has increased, but fewer are available.
Teachers’ professional lives can be highly demanding, pressured, stressful and at times, emotionally exhausting. But there’s an unspoken demand they suppress their emotions and just get on with it.
Four experts weigh in on ways to replenish the US teacher workforce and curb burnout.
Teachers’ optimism is strained when they know much more could be done to minimize COVID-19 safety risks in schools and to help them support student needs during COVID-19.
The approach that schools take to addressing how to get students caught up in learning they missed due to COVID-19 school closures may have a lasting impact on this generation.
A cross-Canada survey of teachers shows teachers say one of the most stressful aspects of their jobs now is their concern for vulnerable students.
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Assistant Professor of Education, Kansas State University
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Assistant Professor of Special Education, Boston University
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Scientia Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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Executive Dean, Faculty of Education, Philosophy and Theology, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Assistant Professor of Education, Temple University
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Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Florida
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Director, Field Experience (Community-Based), Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Dean & Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Regina
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Professor of Education, University of Winnipeg
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Professor in Professional Development and Learning, University of Portsmouth
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Director, Child Trauma Research Centre, Sessional Lecturer Faculty of Education, University of Regina
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Associate Professor of Education, Concordia University, St. Paul
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Postdoctoral Fellow in International Issues and Sustainable Development, Indiana University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Winnipeg
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Lecturer in Inclusive Education and Trauma, La Trobe University
