Preservice teacher stressors and their reactions to those stressors: resilient responses

Abstract

The study reported in this paper explored preservice teachers' perceptions of stressors and ways they mitigated those stressors. Preservice teachers were exposed to the notion of teacher resilience in a compulsory second year subject as a foundation for educating for resilience. This paper explores how preservice teachers engaged with resilience education by learning to recognise the sources of stress that relate to their role as a teacher and developing strategies to manage those stressors as a preservice teacher.