Teacher Stress Affects Children

06/19/2017

Teacher Stress Affects Children

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
Frida Kahlo, 20th-century Mexican painter

"New research is helping to clarify how teachers become chronically stressed, and how it can affect their students' well-being and achievement," writes Sarah D. Sparks in Education Week. Spark explains that in one 2016 study, “They found teachers who reported higher levels of burnout had students with higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol each morning, suggesting classroom tensions could be 'contagious.'"

"Teachers whose demands were greater than their perceived resources were only half as likely to say they would choose to become teachers again as were teachers who saw their demands and resources as balanced. Teachers who reported more resources than demands (a smaller group), were more than twice as likely as teachers with ‘balanced demands and resources’ to say they would become teachers again and would return to their district next year."

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