Teaching: The Profession
Chapter 6
I think a teaching license
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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