#02: Working to Improve the Well-Being of Special Education Teachers — Presentation Detail — Celebration of Scholars

Instructions

Student presentations must have a faculty sponsor.

Abstracts must include a title and a description of the research, scholarship, or creative work. The description should be 150-225 words in length and constructed in a format or style appropriate for the presenter’s discipline.

The following points should be addressed within the selected format or style for the abstract:

A clear statement of the problem or question you pursued, or the scholarly goal or creative theme achieved in your work.
A brief comment about the significance or uniqueness of the work.
A clear description of the methods used to achieve the purpose or goals for the work.
A statement of the conclusions, results, outcomes, or recommendations, or if the work is still in progress, the results you expect to report at the event.

Presenter photographs should be head and shoulder shots comparable to passport photos.

Additional Information

More information is available at carthage.edu/celebration-scholars/. The following are members of the Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Committee who are eager to listen to ideas and answer questions:

Jun Wang
Kim Instenes
John Kirk
Nora Nickels
Andrew Pustina
James Ripley

#02: Working to Improve the Well-Being of Special Education Teachers

Name: Melissa Brulz
Major: Elementary and Special Education
Hometown: Waterford, WI
Faculty Sponsor:
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: SURE
Funding: SURE

Abstract

While burnout among educators is remarkably common, one group of teachers tends to face the highest rates of burnout-special education teachers. As a future special educator, I wanted to learn why this is and how we can improve these teachers' well-being to reduce their burnout. My advisor, Dr. Jun Wang, and I reviewed the literature and created a list of inclusion criteria for the research studies to determine which studies we would use. Based on reading the abstracts of these studies, I found a variety of studies that discussed the burnout of special education teachers along with methods to improve the overall well-being of special education teachers. I then took the information that I found from these studies and created a model of my own. It explains factors that positively and negatively impact the well-being of special education teachers along with outcomes of the students and teachers based on the teacher's well-being. It also discusses various ways special education teachers can improve their well-being.

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