TOPIC: Burnout

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Articles

• H. S. Adelman ,& L. Taylor (1998). Involving teachers in collaborative efforts to better address barriers to student learning. Special issue of Journal of Preventing School Failure, 42(2), 55-60M

Center Report

• Center Report: Resource-Oriented Teams: Key Infrastructure Mechanisms for Enhancing Education Supports (March 2001)

Continuing Education Module

• Developing Resource-Oriented Mechanisms to Enhance learning Supports (Continuing Education Module)
• Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Classroom-Focused Enabling (Continuing Education Module)

Introductory Packet

• Working Collaboratively: From School-Based Collaborative Teams to School- Community-Higher Education Connections (Introductory Packet)
• Understanding and Minimizing Staff Burnout (Introductory Packet)

Newsletter Articles

• Re-engaging Students in Learning at School (Newsletter, Winter, '02)
• School Staff Burnout. (Newsletter, Spring, '02)
• Opening the Classroom Door (Newsletter, Spring, '01),

Quick Training Aid

• Re-engaging Students in Learning (Quick Training Aid)
• School Staff Burnout (Quick Training Aid)

Practice Notes

• About Motivation (Practice Notes)
• Working with Disengaged Students (Practice Notes)

Resource Aid Packets

• Improving Teaching and Learning Supports by Addressing the Rhythm of a Year (Resource Aid Packet)

Technical Aid Packet

• School-Based Mutual Support Groups (For Parents, Staff, and Older Students)
• Volunteers to Help Teachers and School Address Barriers to Learning

Technical Assistance Sampler

• Protective Factors (Resiliency)

Training Tutorial

• Classroom Changes to Enhance & Re-engage Students in Learning (Training Tutorial)

Net Exchange

• School Staff Wellness

New Teachers' Guide
• A Review of the Research Literature on Teacher Recruitment and Retention
• Lessons Learned: New Teachers Talk about Their Jobs, Challenges and Long Range Plans (2008)
• Meeting the Challenge: Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Hard-to-Staff Schools. (2007). American Federation of Teachers.
• New Teachers Can't be Successful - and Won't Stay in Teaching - Without Help from Their School. (2006) American Educator, Summer 06
• Reduce Your Losses: Help New Teachers Become Veteran Teachers
• Survival Guide for New Teachers: How New Teachers Can Work Effectively With Veteran Teachers, Parents, Principals, and Teacher Educators
• Working Without a Net: How New Teachers Describe Their First Year on the Job

Teacher and School Collaboration
• Collaborative Schools
• Creating Learning Communities: Models, Resources, and New Ways of Thinking About Teaching and Learning
• Framework for Supporting Human Resources Systems in School Districts
• Teacher Collaboration in Urban Secondary Schools
• Urban School Restructuring and Teacher Burnout

Stress Relieving
• Fourteen Tips to Help Educators Deal with Stress
• Predicting Teacher Burnout over Time: Effects of Work Stress, Social Support, and Self-Doubts on Burnout and Its Consequences
• Staff "Burnout" in Child Care Settings
• Stress Management Tools and Techniques
• Violence in Communities and Schools: A Stress Reduction Guide for Teachers and other School Staff

Surveys/Statistics
• Teacher Attrition and Mobility: Results from the Teacher Follow-Up Survey, 2004-2005 (2007) National Center for Education Statistics.
• Teacher Attrition and Mobility: Results from the Teacher Follow-Up Survey, 2000-2001 (2004) National Center for Education Statistics.
• To Teach or Not to Teach? Teaching Experience and Preparation Among 1992-1993 Bachelor's Degree Recipients 10 Years After College. (2007) National Center for Education Statistics.

Toolkit and Others
• Teachers Who Learn, Kids Who Achieve
• Teacher Working Conditions Toolkit

• Effective Co-Teaching
• Job Burnout in Public School Education
• Magic for Teacher Work Groups
• Prevention and Control of Stress Among Emergency Workers
• Respite Care
• Stress in Teaching
• Supporting Professionals-at-Risk: Evaluating Interventions to Reduce Burnout
• Teacher Burnout in School

• About.com: Secondary School Educators: Burnout and Stress Management - Guide Picks
• American Institute of Stress (AIS)
• Center for Anxiety & Stress Treatment
• Information and Tips about Stress and Stress Management
• Teachers Helping Teachers

• Banishing Burnout: Six Strategies for Improving Your Relationship with Work. M.P. Leiter, C. Masalach (2005). Josey Bass
• Burnout: The Cost of Caring. C. Maslach (2003). Malor Books.
• Job Burnout. Maslach, C., Schaufeli, W.B., & Leiter, M.P. (2001) Annual Review of Psychology, 52: 397-422.
• Policy Issues: Targeting Teacher Recruitment and Retention Policies for At-Risk Schools. C. Rowland, C. Coble (2005). NCREL. Naperville, Ill.: Learning Point Associates.
• Positive or negative? Peterson, Kent D. (2002). Journal of Staff Development, Summer, 23(3)
• Preventing Burnout and Building Engagement: A Complete Program for Organizational Renewal. Leiter M.P., Malach C (2000). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Stress and stress management in clinical psychology: Findings from a systematic review. Hannigan, B., Edwards, D., & Burnard, P. (2004). Journal of Mental Health. 13,(3), p. 235 - 245.
• A study of the teacher burnout and school psychologist support. Budinick, L.(2006). Proquest.
• Teacher Burnout: A Flickering Flame. Van Horn, J. (2004). Eburon Publishers: Delft. 196pp.
• Teachers Managing Stress and Preventing Burnout: The Professional Health Solution R.A. Roth, Y. Gold (2007). Taylor and Francis.
• Transforming Burnout: A simple Guide to Self-renewal. A. Shelton (2007). Vibrant Press
• Understanding and Preventing Teacher Burnout: A Sourcebook of International Research and Practice. Vandenberghe, R. (Ed.) & Huberman, A.M. (Ed.) (2006). Cambridge University Press: England. 300pp.

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