can have more influence on
then than any other adult. After all, students are with teachers six to seven hours a day,
five days a week, for eight and a half months. They can be the most important person in
the students lives by being an adult who really cares about them and wants to see them
Successful special needs teachers who really care about their students. and whose
students really care about them, can burnout very quickly if they are not careful. There are
four main reasons for burnout: losing professionalism, caring too much about the students,
letting work interfere with homelike, and attitudes of other teacher and administrators.
Losing professionalism occurs when a teacher steps out of the role of
teacher/authority figure and takes verbal attacks personally. It is easy to do because the
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