Why Teachers Are Burning Out

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As a future educator it is important to know exactly what issues may lie ahead in the future in order to prepare how to deal with them or avoid them all together. A concern I had about education was one of long term proportion, and that is burning out. The concept of burning out is not an uncommon one. When a teacher burns out it usually mean that they have lost interest or motivation to continue being an educator or perhaps it has become too overwhelming of a life style for them. Doing some research and reading two articles: Why introverted Teachers Are Burning Out published in The Atlantic; and Teacher: Why I Burned Out and What I Did About It published by the Washington Post; I discovered some interesting information that made me think. …show more content…
I learned a lot about introvert teachers burning out and found it extremely interesting because I am an introvert. The biggest take away from the article on introvert teachers was that burn out is cause by over socialization and a lack of time to center themselves, reflect, and just have time to process. After reading these articles I had more worries than assurances about getting burned out while teaching, so I went back through to try and find solutions into avoiding getting burned out, and what both articles overlapped with was to reduce stress and to find an environment that sees your personality trait as a benefit and a strength. Methods to reduce strength was to exercise, have a hobby in order to break up the teacher lifestyle, as well as learn to let things go. These seem like fairly reasonable and easy ways to avoid stress. In the article that tells about how to get out of a burn out it recommended possibly getting another degree just in case teaching is something that was decidedly a career that is not for