In "Transforming Teaching Through the Cycle of Care: A Comprehensive Guide to Empowering Education Through Relationships, Listening, Thinking, and Responding," author Mona Beth Zignego introduces a groundbreaking model that reshapes the way educators approach their profession. Drawing from decades of experience as a teacher, mentor, and…

Teachers are the backbone of schools, yet they are leaving in droves. This book addresses the post-pandemic crisis of early career teacher turnover that is harming students and entire school systems. The author provides teacher educators and mentors with strategies to help new teachers proactively navigate the early years and thrive in the K-12…

How can you energize yourself to maintain or regain a positive outlook and love of teaching? What specific, immediate actions can you take to enhance your well-being and thrive both on and off the job? Award-winning teacher Chase Mielke draws from his own research, lesson plans, and experiences with burnout to help you change your outlook,…

Research on the brain has shown that emotion plays a key role in learning, but how can educators apply that research in their day-to-day interactions with students? What are some teaching strategies that take advantage of what we know about the brain? "Engage the Brain" answers these questions with easy-to-understand explanations of the…

Today's teachers face more challenges than ever before in managing student behavior in the classroom. New teachers often find themselves underprepared for the realities of hard-to-engage students and increased class size. Rich Korb brings extensive teaching and administrative experience to his collection of strategies designed to keep you and your…

This unique time-saving book is packed with tested techniques and materials to assist new and experienced English teachers with virtually every phase of their job from lesson planning to effective discipline techniques. The book includes 175 easy-to-understand strategies, lessons, checklists, and forms for effective classroom management and over…

Switching from humor to sentiment at the turn of a page, this is a great gift book for retiring teachers or any teacher having a rough day. It deals humorously with situations every teacher can relate to. An added bonus is a Donna Whyte poem that's perfect for reading at retirement celebrations.

Discusses teacher stress in medicine. Reviews models that address the question of work stress and how individuals respond. (Author/CCM)

Points out that fulfilling role-related needs can eliminate or reduce burnout, stress, and apathy. Provides a list of needs and ways of satisfying these needs. (PD)

Suggests 17 strategies for avoiding teacher burnout in evaluating business communication assignments (since grading appears to be one of the most overwhelming and frustrating aspects of teaching business communications). (SR)

Offers some concrete suggestions for teachers in a school-within-a-school program regarding how they can best serve their students and, at the same time, avoid burning out. (RS)

Develops and tests a causal model of the relationship among burnout, communication, organizational stressors, and outcomes in the educational setting. Finds that the causal model developed indicates that teachers' workload and support from their principal influenced role conflict and role ambiguity. Finds that these role stressors, in turn,…

Contributors offer six teaching tips concerning (1) news writing, (2) editing, (3) laboratory time utilization, (4) legal responsibility, (5) telephone interviews, and (6) investigative reporting. (HOD)

Describes the benefits and drawbacks of teaching a course outside one's area of expertise. Claims this enhances faculty development and alleviates burnout. Finds the positive aspects, personal and institutional, outweigh the negative. Results show favorable student evaluations. (Author/NL)

More than 2000 social studies professionals attended the 62nd annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies. The conference theme was "The Future and the American Dream." Excerpts from papers presented, descriptions of workshop presentations, and summaries of what transpired at special sessions and committee meetings are…