Stress and the Teaching Profession

Teaching unions today hit out at employers who “ignore” stress amongst their staff, saying teachers are put under enormous pressures both physically and mentally.

Although this was directed at the teaching profession in Scotland (Edinburgh), it is typical of the strains that we put on teachers across the UK (and, no doubt, the world).

As a teacher, I can fully sympathise with this.

Read the full story here: Teachers and Stress

Also, here are a few more views on the subject from the blogging community…

Teaching is hazardous – In sounding the alarm yesterday, National Union of Teaching Profes-sion (NUTP) secretary-general Lok Yim Pheng said more teachers were now suffering stress and ran a high risk of getting cancer, heart attacks and high blood pressure. …

Student Teaching and Stress – Student teaching is stressful under the best of circumstances. Then, once unexpected events are added in, there is even more stress. At the end of the first assignment during student teaching, our family was presented with two …