Hohes Maß an Stress und Burnout unter Lehrern
https://www.rte.ie/news/education/2025/1209/1547963-teacher-stress-burnout/
Von Banania2020
Hohes Maß an Stress und Burnout unter Lehrern
https://www.rte.ie/news/education/2025/1209/1547963-teacher-stress-burnout/
Von Banania2020
23 Kommentare
Any job that requires dealing with people is inherently more stressful
Having done a small bit of teaching I can sympathise. It’s extremely full on, its basically a performance job like you’re putting on an interactive play for hours often with little if any break. From what I hear from teachers I know the challenges of dealing with kids with severe behavioural issues or bad cases of autism still integrated into normal classes are significant and tend to fall unevenly on certain teachers seen as better able to deal with hard cases. Also parents expect and have an unprecedented level of access, often texting or emailing them will outside of school hours.
That said at least for primary teaching which this seems to be about they have short days and ample holidays to recover from burnout that aren’t available to most other people
I’ve never seen morale so low in schools as it is now. People outside the system have no idea how much schools have been struggling the last couple of years.
Wife’s class size is 37, that isn’t teaching that’s surviving 😂 19:1 my arse!
Friend of mine is a teacher and she loved it so much. But the past year she is struggling big time. Kids have no attention span and behavioural problems.
How my kids teacher in Senior Infants is not deaf is beyond me. Two of the girls in the class just constantly scream and its so high pitched my kid comes home with a headache every day.
Welcome to the club
Shock horror teachers complaining …..well theres a first😂
I keep telling my sister she should just quit , it’s not worth it but she wont listen
It’s pretty stressful at the moment from talking to a principal. Funding is very, very tight. Making ends meet is really difficult this year. There are some really stressful home and parenting situations from which students are coming to school. And there are increased demands on teachers for students who really require a lot of support. Teachers are doing it but burnout is a marker for how long they can do it for.
My sister is a pre-school teacher and the amount of parents who want to send children in with their tablet is unreal. Obviously they say no, so the parents rock up and just before going in take the tablet from the child and whoosh them in the door. So the first couple of hours of the day are spent trying to calm these kids down and redirect them to actually play.
You couldn’t pay me enough to do that job!
It’s not only teachers – every job is more stressful. People are a hell of a lot more difficult to deal with nowadays- only difference is teachers will get 60 off days holidays to help them along.
Maybe they need even more time off!
Not to take away from the main article, but ask any Early Childcare Educator and they’ll tell you that this is what it has been like for them for years. And without any of the perks associated with being a teacher. Good managers and staff are leaving Early Childcare for retail and anything else that pays better, leaving behind people who haven’t got a clue. The government have done a terrible job at laying the foundations for education and it was always going to spill over into primary education.
High levels of stress and burnout in tech companies too. Love how teachers always complain with their half days and summers / half the year off
alot of stressed teachers on here that should be working going by the down votes lol
My cousin teaches 7-8 year olds in the UK and she said there’s kids that age that do not know what their shapes are, asked a kid what shape is this? A circle, the child said a square, then guessed a triangle.
There’s kids out there being done such a disservice by their parents who thought entertaining an 18 month old baby with an iPad until it reached school age then off you go was enough parenting. It’s so sad, but the state of it won’t become obvious until these illiterate children start going to secondary school, start doing exams and literally do not have the capacity or facilities to perform.
Kids are horrible.
I have one and left it at that due to his atrocious behavior.
It’s a pity Ireland still has Catholic guilt and doesn’t join most of Europe, Korea, Japan and so many with the refusal to have children.
And yet I often read on Reddit about how easy it is as a job and that teachers are overpaid and lazy…
I’d never do that job
What about the rest of us tho
Ireland is one of the few countries I’ve seen where people take the piss out of teachers for the time off they’re given. You’d think the same gobshites would be lining up for university to study and train if it is an easy gig.
Hat sounds so chaotic like how do they even focus with all that going on
But at least your parents get to tell the neighbours that your a teacher 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
Schools have totally failed to adapt to a changing country, culture and set of parental expectations. We need schools that are different to one another so that children can be placed in a school that is suitable to their needs. We require far more activity during our school days and not simply seeking to create uniform civil service candidates who will sit at a desk all day long and do as they are told. Beyond that teachers performance needs to be properly managed. It is not fair that the bad teachers get the same pay as the amazing ones and pull the entire profession down. The whole system needs a complete redesign.