Stress and the Professional Educator
Stress and the Professional Educator
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压力与职业教育者
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10.1080/01626620.1980.10519024
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1980
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R. Alley
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今天的教育工作者发现自己每年都面临着更大的压力，公众通过联邦政府授权的计划，如将特殊教育学生纳入主流或州立法计划，如能力测试，不断要求他们更多。今天的教育专业人士还说，同样的公众现在也不像以前那样支持学校和教育专业人士。例如，许多教师报告说，在解决子女的问题时，很难得到家长的支持和帮助。家长甚至可能拒绝去学校参加家长/教师会议时，要求这样做。最近的盖洛普民意测验的数据显示，公立学校中只有65%的青少年家长参加了”去年在任何地方学校大楼举行的讲座、任何会议或任何社交活动“。“同一项民意调查报告说，85%的受访成年人支持教师或行政人员的国家认证考试。同样数量的成年人支持定期对这些专业人员进行重新测试，看看他们是否跟上了他们的领域。问题并不在于这些具体的态度，而在于它们所代表的趋势--教育工作者承受的压力越来越大，而公众的支持却越来越少。虽然专业问题确实困扰着教育专业人员，但个人因素，如工资不足和其他经济因素，也给今天的教育工作者带来了巨大的痛苦。许多教育专业人员发现不可能继续从事这一职业。一个大型中西部学校系统发现，在去年春末或夏季，其中学近15%的教师辞职。同一地区报告说，从1977-78年到1978-79年，离开教师行业到其他地方寻找高薪工作的教师人数翻了一番。大多数人不打算继续教书。中西部另一所规模较小的乡村学校发现，该校五名工业教育教师中有两名已于2月1日辞职，这使得该地区在此期间几乎没有机会取代他们。罗伯特·艾利是威奇托州立大学教育学院副院长和中学教育教授。他为各个ATE州单位，ASCD和许多学区举办了许多关于压力和减压的研讨会。目前，他正在完成一个为期三年的任期作为ATE的在职教育委员会主席。Alley博士在爱荷华州州立大学获得学士学位，在蒙大拿大学获得硕士学位，并获得教育学博士学位。来自亚利桑那州立大学。
Educators today find themselves· under added pressures each year with the public continually demanding more of them through federally mandated programs such as mainstreaming special education students or state legislated programs such as competency testing. Today's education professionals also say that this same public is also now less supportive of school and education professionals than it once was. For example, many teachers report great difficulty in getting the support and assistance of parents in solving the problems of their children. Parents may even refuse to go to the school for a parent/teacher conference when asked to do so. Demonstrating the depth of the problem are data from the most recent Gallup Poll which reveal that only 65 percent of the parents of youth in public schools attended a" lecture, any meeting, or any social occasion in any local school building during the last year."'The same poll reports that 85 percent of adults polled would support state certification examinations for teachers or administrators. A like number of adults was supportive of periodic retesting of these professionals to see if they keep up to date with their field. 2 The trouble is not so much with these specific attitudes as with the trend they appear to represent-more pressure on educators with less public support. While professional concerns certainly plague education professionals, personal considerations such as inadequate salary and other economic factors also create great anguish for today's educators. Many education professionals are finding it impossible to continue in the profession. One large midwestern school system found nearly fifteen percent of the teachers in its sec<;> ndary schools had resigned during the late spring or summer months this last year. That same district reported that the number of teachers leaving the profession for higher paying jobs elsewhere doubled from 1977-78 to 1978-79. Most did not plan to continue teaching. Another smaller, rural school in the midwest found that two of its five industrial education teachers has resigned on February 1st leaving the district with virtually no chance to replace them during thatDr. Robert Alley is Associate Dean of the College of Education and Professor of Secondary Education at Wichita State University. He has conducted numerous workshops on stress and stress reduction for various ATE state units, ASCD, and numerous school districts. Currently he is completing a three-year term as Chairperson of ATE's Commission on Inservice Education. Dr. Alley received his BS from Iowa State University, an ME from the University of Montana, and his Ed. D. from Arizona State University.