Teaching: The Profession

Chapter 6

I think a teaching license

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license, anybody can get one

2. Is the sign of professionalism

3. Shouldn’t be needed to teach kids

4. Is hard to get

A profession Members perform a unique, important

social service Specialized knowledge A rather long period of preparation Broad autonomy Personal responsibility for judgments Service more than economic gains Comprehensive self-governing Regulative code of ethics governing entry

Teaching License Forty-two states require a test for a

license…each state has different exams Some require tests of academic content,

some add pedagogy, often contains a writing section…cutoff scores differ from state to state

Professional accreditation of preparation programs, state responsibility for issuing licenses, state certification of practitioners

National Certification…NBPTS

Most teachers leave the profession because

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1. Kids drive them crazy

2. Too little money for the work

3. Lack of support from administrators

4. pregnancy

Finding a teaching job

Letter of inquiry Personal interview…quizzing the

candidate-straightforward answers, asking good questions, knowing what to wear (err on the side of….)

Interview reflection…did I learn anything from the interview?

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In the 2001-2002 school year, the average teacher salary nationally was

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1. $22,7492. $31, 4323. $37, 9894. $44,3675. $52,8716. $73,319

Career Opportunities

Substitute teaching Administration…superintendents,

principals, personnel and guidance services, librarians and technology specialists, paraprofessionals, volunteer personnel, nonteaching school personnel

The most needed teachers are

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suburbs2. Special ed teachers in

urban areas3. English teachers in rural

areas4. Physics teachers who

speak Spanish5. Social Studies teachers

who coach

Professional Associations 30 teacher associations established

between 1840 and 1861 (state) The first national association begun in

1857…National Teachers Association, morphed into the National Education(al) Association in the 1870s and became the NEA in 1906

The first teacher “union” was the AFT, part of the AFL in 1916

After WWII, teachers became more activist