Stress Levels of School Administrators and Teachers

Stress Levels of School Administrators and Teachers - "A certain amount of stress in education is predictable, even constructive. The exhilaration and challenges of educating children will physically cause adrenaline levels associated with stress to increase. However, educators differ radically from one another in the degree to which they are able to identify and manage stress. Stress is the physiological and emotional reaction to psychological events. Any event triggering the formerly life-saving, ancient "fight or flight" response is a stressor. Unrelieved, the cumulative, physical strain generated by psychological stress can harm the body. Stress is a consistent, exaggerated, and overwhelming sense of urgency, often coupled with frustration. The dichotomy of stress as a motivator or negative force in school contributes significantly to the emergent shortage of qualified school administrators and teachers (Goodwin, Cunningham, & Childress, 2003). According to Botwinik (2007), it is easy for an educator to become overstressed. Education and stress has seemingly now become one common bond in American society (Kiser, 2007)."