The subject of this thesis is stress and dealing with stress in educational workers and the emphasis is on elementary school teachers and preschool teachers. Stress is a state in which someone finds themselves when they are troubled by problems or demands from the outside world to which they fail to adapt. Stressors are situations or demands that cause stress. In order to handle stress and stressors, it is important to know stress coping strategies. Stress coping strategies are different ways someone uses to reduce stress or to avoid negative effects. For the purposes of this paper, a study was conducted with the aim of examining the sources of stress and ways of coping with stress among elementary and preschool teachers. There were 240 persons that participated in the research of which 105 were elementary school teachers and 132 were preschool teachers. The results of the research showed that both preschool and elementary school teachers are encountered with stressors, but slightly higher levels of stressors are recognized by preschool teachers. Besides the amount of stressors, elementary and preschool teachers also differ by which stressors they recognize the most and the ones they recognize the least. It was also proven that both preschool and elementary teachers use all three strategies for coping with stress. The only difference is that elementary school teachers use more of a problem-focused coping strategy. It was also revealed that higher level of stressors are associated with a higher level of emotion-oriented strategy usage in both preschool and elementary school teachers, and in the case of elementary school teachers, such a connection also exists between stressors and the overall usage of stress coping strategies. Through this research, it was determined that elementary school and preschool teachers are exposed to a large amount of stress, and it was also found that they use different coping strategies. This paper helps us understand the stressors that teachers encounter every day in their work better and indicates which stress coping strategies they use.