1. Teaching: The Profession Chapter 6

2. I think a teaching license 0 5 1.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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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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8. In the 2001-2002 school year, the average teacher salary nationally was 0 5 1.$22,749 2.$31, 432 3.$37, 989 4.$44,367 5.$52,871 6.$73,319

9. Career Opportunities  Substitute teaching  Administration…superintendents, principals, personnel and guidance services, librarians and technology specialists, paraprofessionals, volunteer personnel, nonteaching school personnel

10. The most needed teachers are 0 5 1.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

11. 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