Resilience and Efficacy as They Relate to Early Career Teaching Success

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Abstract

Resilience is often cited as a critical element in teaching success and longevity. Teacher education programs need to be more intentional about developing resilience in professional candidates to address current critical shortages. This paper describes the longitudinal follow-up to a research begun in 2008 that compared pre-service teacher candidates with in-service special educators on measures of resilience, and teacher self-efficacy, factors shown to mediate burnout. This study compares scores measures of Resilience, Teacher Efficacy, and Burnout from one to three years pre-service to one to three years entry into the profession among a sample of special education program completers, comparing current scores to the 2008 in-service teacher sample to determine whether Resilience and Efficacy are malleable factors that mediate Burnout.

Author

• Laura Desportes, James Madison University