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Beyond their prismatic gift for tint and shading the editors of Time have a real talent for discovering anguish. the illustrating example abounds--a teaser for the cover story on "Help--Teachers Can't Teach" tells of one teacher who "suffered a literal case of 'teacher burnout." Returning from lunch one day, he found flames leaping from his classroom window." Another mother despairs, "How do you tell your chid that contrary to what the teacher says, pin and pen are not homonyms?" But virtue lives on in some corners. One teacher "scrubs the desks in her classroom herself and sweeps...
...many teachers, whether to leave their profession is not seen as a question of choice, or economics, but as a matter of emotional necessity. The latest pedagogic phenomenon is something called "teacher burnout." It is a psychological condition, produced by stress, that can result in anything from acute loss of will to suicidal tendencies, ulcers, migraine, colitis, dizziness, even the inability to throw off chronic, and perhaps psychosomatic, colds...
This spring the first national conference on teacher burnout was held in New York City. Surprisingly, the syndrome seems nearly as common in small towns and well-off suburbs as in big cities. The National Education Association has already held more than 100 local workshops round the country to help teachers cope with the problem, which University of California Social Psychologist Ayala Pines defines as "physical, emotional and attitudinal exhaustion." Last March, Stress Consultant Marian Leibowitz held a burnout seminar in Edwardsville, Ill. (pop. 11,982). It drew a paying audience of 250 to a hall big enough for only...
...reading The Tale of Genji, an 11th century Japanese novel of love and manners. Says she: "Some days I can't bear to go to school. My legs won't take me to the classroom." After 13 years of teaching, Dorothy is a classic case of teacher burnout, and she hopes to find a job in public relations. But she remembers proud moments from years ago: her rousing student production of Tom Sawyer, the months she worked with a nine-year-old Hispanic student until he finally learned long division. These days, though, she lets her student teacher...
Scott has been teaching for 40 years, and much of the current talk about teacher burnout irritates her. She knows firsthand all the problems and questions that beset teachers. "There's a breakdown in family life. Everyone does his own thing," she admits. "The number of children actually doing the work and keeping up are in the minority." Excessive paperwork? "The only way I deal with it is to try to do it," she says, though she now often has to grade papers during lunch hour as well as at home. Kids who won't do homework...