Understanding and Preventing Teacher Burnout

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This paper attempts to analyze what causes teacher burnout and what can be done to stop it. It explains that, in order to understand why teacher burnout occurs, it is important to evaluate the key areas that affect a teacher in and out of their workplace. It discusses major stress factors in jobs and how these apply to the teaching profession.

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"For teachers, workload relates to not only their class attendance, but also the ratio of faculty to classes. Public school teachers spend roughly half their waking lives in work-related activities (Wiley, 2000) which will lead to not only physical stress but psychological stress as well. Teachers affected by increase in stress levels, may take sick-leave more often, plan an early retirement and absenteeism all arise as defensive responses to dealing with burnout. The implications are that this strain is likely to affect the teacher's personality, and ultimately affect classroom teaching and learning (Wiley)."

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