Teaching: The Profession Chapter 6

I think a teaching license Is like a fishing 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 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 school year, the average teacher salary nationally was $22,749 2.$31, $37, $44,367 5.$52,871 6.$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 El.ed. Teachers in the suburbs 2.Special ed teachers in urban areas 3.English teachers in rural areas 4.Physics teachers who speak Spanish 5.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