Teacher stressors and potential remedies from pre-service teachers’ and cooperating teachers’ perspectives

This study investigated specific teaching events which participants, pre-service and cooperating teachers, found stressful. Although participants agreed on the top four stressful teaching events, e.g., student discipline problems, time management, dealing with unmotivated students, and lecturing; they disagreed on remedies. Reducing class size and payment for student teaching were indicated as priorities by cooperating teachers and preservice teachers, respectively. The implication of the results for teacher training and teacher recruitment and retention are discussed.