Week 2- Professional Satisfaction

What role does professional satisfaction play in the effectiveness of a classroom?

Being a teacher can be and is often very stressful. When a teacher is preoccupied with the stress of ensuring all students meet district standards, budget funding, and classroom environments they can forget why they started teaching in the first place. When teachers are placed in a situation of high stress their ability to teach to the best of their ability is severely affected (Straus, 2013). 

When teachers have high self-efficacy rate they perform better in the classroom (2018). They are confident in their ability to teach their students. They don't second guess themselves, they are willing to take risks and are not afraid to fail. When something doesn't work they go right to something out with out missing a beat. All these attributes make for a wonderful teacher, but are made more difficult when teachers have lower rates of professional satisfaction. 

Strauss, V. (2013, February 21). U.S. Teachers' job Satisfaction Craters- Report. Retrieved June 2, 2019, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2013/02/21/u-s-teachers-job-satisfaction-craters-report/?utm_term=.796db4843292

Teacher Efficacy: Why it Matters and How Administrators can help. (2018, January 8). Retrieved from https://education.cu-portland.edu/blog/curriculum-teaching-strategies/improve-teacher-efficacy/

Thomas, D., & Brown, J. (2011). A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination of a World of Constant Change. Douglas Thomas and John Brown.