Understanding teacher stress in an age of accountability

• Other Authors: Lambert, Richard G. (Editor), McCarthy, Christopher J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP, [2006]
• Series: Research on stress and coping in education series.
• Subjects: Teachers > United States > Job stress.; Burn out (Psychology); Teacher turnover > Prevention.; Education > Teaching > General.; Teaching staff.; Teaching skills and techniques.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781918116144
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-60752-523-3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 pages)

School districts today face increasing calls for accountability during a time when budgets are stretched and students' needs have become increasingly complex. The teacher's responsibility is to educate younger people, but now more than ever, teachers face demands on a variety of fronts. In...

Table of Contents:

• The stress of accountability : teachers as policy brokers in a poverty school / P. Taylor Webb
• Weighing the risks with the rewards : implementing student-centered pedagogy within high stakes testing / Michael M. Grant and Janette R. Hill
• Teacher stress and high stakes testing : how using one measure of academic success leads to multiple teacher stressors / Sandra Mathison and Melissa Freeman
• Shared needs : teachers helping students with learning disabilities to cope more effectively / Nola Firth, Erica Frydenberg, and Daryl Greaves
• Multicultural competencies and teacher stress : implications for teacher preparation, practice, and retention / Sylvia C. Nassar-McMillan, Meagan Karvonen, and Cheryl Young
• Teacher stress and classroom structural characteristics in preschool settings / Richard Lambert, Jeni Kusherman, Megan O'Donnell, and Christopher McCarthy
• Stress in the student-teacher relationship in Dutch schools : a replication study of Greene, Abidin, and Kmetz's index of teaching stress (ITS) / Hubb A. Everaert & Kees van der Wolf
• Sources of teacher demotivation / Zeynep Kiziltepe
• Teachers' job stress and human resource development : the Malyasian experience / Reynaldo Segumpan and Fazli Bahari
• Relationship of teachers' preventive coping resources to burnout symptoms / Christopher McCarthy, Debra Kissen, Lauren Yadley, Teri Wood, and Rich Lambert
• The relationship between burnout and stress among special educators / Stacey L. Edmonson
• Helping teachers balance demands and resources in an era of accountability / Christopher McCarthy and Richard Lambert.