Challenges Faced by Teachers and Building Resilience

Essay
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Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
Resilience is a procedure of well adapting the situations of trauma, tragedy, threats or
sources of stress. These sources can be relationship problems, health issues or workplace
challenges (American Psychological Association, 2014). In my understanding, resilience is an
ability of an individual to face traumatic conditions but despite of complaining about the
situations, stay strong and turn traumatic conditions in favourable situations. In this essay,
various challenges will be identified and analysed which teachers face in today’s world. Along
with this, an evaluation will be done in this essay regarding how Resilience can be developed in
teachers through support systems and relationships.
Resilience is not only associated with personal attribute. When the concept of Resilience is
analysed, it is often mis-understandably argued that it is a personality trait which is not true as
Resilience can be developed by a teacher through various sources of positive thinking, effective
communication etc.
There are various challenges which are faced by early career teachers. These challenges are
related to environmental factors; such challenges are not getting help from mentors or
colleagues, focusing too much on job operations and neglecting social exercises, negative
feedback from students and no support of partners. The Brite module helps teachers in building
resilience as it intends to work over relationships, wellbeing, taking initiative and emotions. The
Brite module has the expert opinions on how to build resilience due to which it helps in building
resilience.
MAIN BODY
There are various challenges which teachers face in today’s world and these challenges are
even crucial for teachers with early career stage. These challenges which are faced by teachers
are analysed as follows. The major influential challenge which teachers face is protecting factors.
According to this factor, teachers face pressure of their family due to which it becomes difficult
for them to concentrate on their job operations. Another challenge faced by teachers is in regard
with environmental factors. These factors create difficultly for teachers to cope up with changing
scenario of teachers. Focus of students is also a difficulty which is faced by early career teachers.
Under this challenge, it becomes difficult to teach students due to their lack of focus as students
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