What is it about?
Music teaching can be a stressful endeavor. The purpose of this article is to equip music teachers and other educational stakeholders with research-informed definitions, warning signs, and potential remedies for burnout. An honest and action-oriented approach to addressing music teacher stress and burnout will hopefully result in healthier, more effective, and more joyful forms of music learning in schools.
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Why is it important?
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated stress and burnout among teachers, creating a very difficult educational landscape. Many researchers have discovered that music teachers are particularly susceptible to burnout. Thus, I offer practical recommendations for addressing the macro-level, classroom-level, and intrapersonal contributors to music teacher burnout.
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I decided to write this article after speaking to so many stressed-out and burned-out teachers over the past year. I hope it helps teachers who are struggling, but I also hope it reaches the administrators, leaders, and policymakers who make decisions that affect the work motivation and well-being of teachers they serve.
Josef Hanson
University of Memphis
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This page is a summary of: Research-to-Resource: Confronting and Overcoming Music Teacher Burnout, Update Applications of Research in Music Education, May 2021, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/87551233211019999.
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