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Project Management Tips to Reduce End-of-Term Stress

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The end of a term typically brings increased stress to educators. To borrow a term used by Cross and Dillon (2023), stress often “snowballs” throughout the term and then reaches a crescendo at the end. The reasons are varied: exam grading, essay grading, submission of final course grades, student grade appeals, administrative requests, teaching evaluations, and preparations for the next term, to name only a few of the causes of end-of-term stress.


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