This naturalistic inquiry takes a deep dive into the experiences elementary classroom teachers who have experienced feelings of burnout in their career and persevered, choosing to stay in the classroom, overcoming those feelings. Using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as a theoretical lens, the researcher studied the teachers in their school setting.…

Although teacher burnout has been experienced for decades, teachers faced additional stressors with the onset of COVID-19. Teachers faced newfound stressors due to lockdowns and restrictions on gathering face-to-face and instruction becoming virtual. Even the youngest students (kindergarten to fifth grade) had to be taught according to the virtual…

Teachers have been confronting burnout even before COVID-19 appeared; however, with COVID-19, teacher burnout has amplified and persisted. Resilience is a component within individuals that exhibits endurance to burnout. One factor that could feasibly be a component of resilience is hope. Hope within the Positive Psychology framework is seen as a…

This study examined the amount and quality of educational dialogue in relation to student math performance in Grade 2. Domains of teacher occupational stress were considered predicting variables for dialogue and math performance. Video-recorded lessons (N = 151) of 50 teachers were analysed in terms of dialogic episodes to determine the amount…

Job burnout is becoming a major threat to teachers' work. Previous studies revealed that teachers' professional identity and job burnout are negatively related. This study explored the mediating effects of career satisfaction and work engagement in the relationship between teachers' professional identity and job burnout. Investigation materials…

Excessive workplace stress and burnout have been persistent issues for teachers in the public school setting. The problem addressed in this project study was that K-12 school principals are inconsistently implementing leadership practices (LPs) to support teachers who experience burnout in two public school districts under study. Guided by the…

Self-regulated learning (SRL) is a fundamental skill for school and life. Much is known about how to effectively teach and support it in a classroom, though teachers often retreat to more structured, external learning regulation. Experts have identified the important role of pedagogical knowledge and personal self-regulated learning in helping…

When we think about the issues currently confronted by those who work in schools, stress and burnout among teachers and other practitioners is recognized as a widespread concern due to the adverse effects on students, schools, and communities. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of job stress on the experienced burnout of…

The focus of this study was emotional intelligence and burnout in teachers in Thailand. The problem addressed in this study was the unknown level of emotional intelligence among teachers in Thailand, which may be connected to their levels of depression, stress, anxiety, and burnout. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to…

The purpose of this quantitative correlational predictive study was to examine if a predictive relationship existed between emotional intelligence and the dimensions of burnout among K-8 teachers in the United States. The trait emotional intelligence theory and the Maslach burnout model provided the foundation for the study. The sample included…

Teacher burnout refers to teachers' inability to cope with work stress smoothly. Previous studies have revealed that job burnout is negatively related to professional identity; however, little is known about the mechanism underlying the relationship between teacher professional identity and job burnout. This study tested the mediating effects of…

Workload has consistently been found to be a predictor of burnout in teachers. However, while academia considers workload a psychological concept, the public tends to simplify workload as the number of tasks assigned. This study seeks to provide further evidence of the psychological nature of workload by examining if workload understood in terms…

The purpose of this quantitative associative correlational study was to determine if and to what extent there was a statistically significant relationship between behavior classroom management strategies and the teacher burnout dimensions of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment in PK-12 classrooms in New York State.…

Empirical studies have demonstrated the importance of emotion regulation for teachers' professional development. We adopted a person-centered approach to explore primary school teachers' emotion regulation and its impact on occupational well-being, job burnout, and resilience. To understand the potential types of emotion regulation, we conducted a…

Teacher empathy is an essential feature in supporting social, emotional, and academic growth in students; however, there have been few studies of teacher empathy and job burnout. Teachers need to show empathy toward students without experiencing symptoms of job burnout to ensure students' academic, social, and emotional success. A mixed-methods…