Getting a Handle on Teacher Stress: How Bad Is the Problem?.

Abstract

Two principals are discussing what it means to be a teacher in today's schools. One comments that tech nological improvements have made it easier to present ideas to students. The second counters with, But today's teacher is really under a great deal of The first disagrees. One of these administrators will have a twohour inservice program on stress man agement; the other will not. Neither really knows if the teachers she super vises are more or less effective because of their level of perceived stress. Nei ther principal knows if her school is a more stressful place to work than other schools. To determine the real seriousness of stress, to establish some numbers that could be used for comparison, we col lected data from more than 3,300 K-12 public school teachers.