title: An Analysis of Job Satisfaction for Special Educators Who Instruct Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders: How Working Conditions Impact Commitment. creator: Adkins, Beverly contributor: Bullock, Lyndal M. contributor: Huffman, Jane B. contributor: Combes, Bertina H. contributor: Kinnison, Lloyd publisher: University of North Texas date: 2009-08 language: English description: Teachers of students with emotional/behavioral disorders (E/BD) find that myriad concerns for effective teaching (e.g., salaries, increased paperwork, classroom management) challenge their ability to meet personal and professional needs. The push for certified teachers and limited training to work with students with special needs create stressors that can prohibit effective teaching in the workplace. Teacher moral drops and half of newly hired employees leave the profession. Equally important, student outcomes are affected. Demographic information, program practices, and commitment information from special education teachers across the country were examined in this study. These areas of study helped to determine the best indicators for teacher job satisfaction and barriers that threaten satisfactory working conditions. An online survey was designed to capture 29 areas to explore qualifications and working environments for these teachers. Of the 600 targeted teachers, 332 individuals participated in Likert-like scales to determine their degree of satisfaction or dissatisfaction for working conditions, use of intervention strategies, and areas of commitment. Closed-ended and multiple-choice questions were used. Descriptive analyses and tables aided in understanding this study. The resulting factors indicated that, although some respondents pointed to job dissatisfaction within the subset of questions, participants who worked for more than 6 years were less likely to vacate their positions than teachers working for less than six years. subject: Emotional behavioral disorders subject: special education subject: teachers subject: Teachers of problem children -- Job satisfaction. subject: Special education teachers -- Job satisfaction. rights: Public rights: Copyright rights: Adkins, Beverly rights: Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. type: Thesis or Dissertation format: Text identifier: oclc: 568791398 identifier: untcat: b3823945 identifier: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12067/ identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metadc12067