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Teacher Job Stress, Burnout & Creativity

TEACHER JOB STRESS, BURNOUT, AND CREATIVITY

Lumsden (1998) has noted that teachers are currently being stretched to the limit of their capabilities and capacities. Specifically, Lumsden states, teachers are being challenged by growing expectations, expansions of their job role and tasks, and having to deal with an ongoing and increasing array of social problems making their way into classrooms. The result of these challenges as well as several other problematic job factors has been teacher stress and burnout.

Carter (1999) defines teacher burnout as physical, emotional and attitudinal exhaustion, stating that burnout begins with a feeling of uneasiness. This feeling steadily increases as the joy of teaching begins to gradually slip away. Carter further informs that although the symptoms of burnout may be very personal, they commonly include several symptoms such as lack of energy, joy, enthusiasm, satisfaction, motivation, interest, zest, dreams, and ideas. There is also often difficulties association with concentration, a lowering of self-confidence and a depletion of humor.

In addition, Carter (1999) reports that the consequences of teacher burnout extend beyond the personal psychoemotional toll. Burnout can also lead to turnover, or to teachers remaining on the job till retirement, but having only minimal concern about their students and minimal commitment to their work. Further, Carter states that unenthusiastic, burned out teachers can act as an obstacle to student learning. Also, Manthei and Gilmore (1996) found that absenteeism rises when teachers are stressed.

Because of the serious consequences of teacher burnout, many educators have attempted to discover those factors that moderate or mitigate the stress that leads to burnout. In this regard, it has been suggested by some educators that the application of creativity to instructional tasks and practices may operate to reduce teachers' levels of job stress...

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