Matt’s Notes
Good evening! I’ll put that out there, cause it’s the evening where and when I am right now! We are glad you were able to find your way here for a discussion which in many ways dovetails nicely with our last topic… this time, instead of work-life balance… or perhaps, in extension of all that… we’re talking about educator career satisfaction!
Even if you’re not an educator yourself, somebody in your life is! So do themselves… and yourself… a solid by viewing or listening below!
Make it so, Number One! Go get those Star Bucks! #ednontech
So… I thought TechSmith Camtasia might be done crunching the video by now!
In case you didn’t pick up what I was putting down earlier, this is the second in a thematically-likened set of episodes…
Having the routine of a job again is something that I needed more that I was expecting. Just going in and having a “normal” workday in an office setting… so much part of my life for so long… feels still, after nearly two months… downright EXOTIC.
In the interests of adding at least one or two educationally-relevant nuggets to my section of the notes… here are a couple of items I saw fit to keep in my email inbox!
…but NEVER MIND, cause they’re from LinkedIn, and you have to be signed in to see the articles… and I’m not going to intentionally drive anybody towards LinkedIn… which is, weirdly, my most connected of the three social sites I belong to… while also the one I populate and interact with the least frequently…
You’ll have to take my word for it that those were some pretty rad reads from UNESCO! Or not!
But wait! Here’s an article from Wired which has a really, really compelling lede:
Why do people panic when an AI chatbot tells us it “wants to be human,” but not when inanimate object says it wants to be a “real boy”?
Source: Wired.com
I don’t think I can go out on a better note than that! Until next time, friends…
Doug’s Notes
Educator Career Satisfaction
It seems that mobility, productivity, and satisfaction are interrelated…
Patterson, L. E., Sutton, R. E., & Schuttenberg, E. M. (1987). Plateaued careers, productivity, and career satisfaction of college of education faculty. Career Development Quarterly, 35(3), 197-205.
“Poor-fit burnout”, indicating a lack of optimal match between the individual and the organization right from the point of hiring. The failure to become engaged in one’s work, due to lack of passion or interest in the assigned professional role, would lead to disengagement characterized by stagnation.
Robinson, B. C. (2005). Exploring career satisfaction, burnout, and compassion fatigue as indicators of the quality of career engagement of public school educators. West Virginia University.
The overwhelming evidence of teacher attrition and disengagement in our field has been a wake-up call for academic and professional organizations involved with teacher retention, training, and support.
Teacher retention and success is reflective of individual professional and personal experiences and how these behaviors were perceived.
Clemons, C. A., & Lindner, J. R. (2019). Teacher Longevity and Career Satisfaction in the Secondary Agricultural Education Classroom. Journal of Agricultural Education, 60(1), 186-201.
The following factors were shown to be important predictors of career satisfaction: a managerial position, engagement, job satisfaction, satisfaction with co-workers, satisfaction with opportunities for promotion and education, and satisfaction with salary.
Boštjančič, E., & Petrovčič, A. (2019). Exploring the relationship between job satisfaction, work engagement and career satisfaction: The study from public university. Human Systems Management, 38(4), 411-422.
Word of the podcast
Satisfaction
Phrase of the podcast
We do not have a phrase of the podcast! Wait a minute…
Question of the podcast
How does one reflect upon an education practice to maximize job satisfaction?
We are supremely grateful you joined us! Next time we see you it will be closer to autumn!
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