Some Characteristics Of A Profession

First, let look at what it mean to be a profession? A profession mean to me a career with continuous training with a skill set that one have to have a distinct qualifications to obtain. For example, a lawyer. A lawyer doesn’t just complete four years of college and go to law school to become the best lawyer. A lawyer is in continuous training because the law, clients and cases are always changing therefore lawyer has to stay abreast of ones skill set.

In Michael D. Bayles “The Professions”, Bayles describes the basic characteristics of a profession. Instead of providing a single definition Bayles instead defines the term profession based on three basic characteristics due to the complex meaning of the term. The three characteristics he identified that all professions must have include: extensive training, intellectual component included in the training, and must provide important service in society. Based on these characteristics that Bayles identifies I believe my profession of a teacher strongly correlates with Bayles definition of the term profession.

Why is teaching an important profession to me? Life is about something, but what it is about for me it is the passing of knowledge that will make society move forward. Without the teacher, we would be in the dark, because, the light of someone teaching would not be. We would not advance as a society, on Medicare or agricultural advances.

According to Want to Reduce the Teacher Shortage? “We always want to recruit more, but this totally ignores that too many teachers leave within the first five years. Instead of working on keeping and supporting new teachers, the conversation is about very expensive and often ineffective recruitment initiatives. We’re widening the gate and lowering the bar.”We don't support the new teachers but instead, the conversation is about very expensive and often ineffective recruitment initiatives. This puts the school in a bad position. We want to recruit but the other teachers are ignored. According to the same article “We do not have a teacher shortage in the sense that we have an underproduction of new, qualified teachers. The conventional wisdom – seen in the flurry of news reports at the beginning of every school year – tells us that we do, but It’s not true and it’s never been true.” The teacher shortage makes the quality of the school goes down. We don't get many new qualified teachers. Also, the school tries to hide it but it never works. Not getting qualified teachers can make the school less reliable and the kids won't get as good Education as if they had a qualified teacher. According to the same article “Well, teachers should be paid more, but that’s a tough one politically because it’s a money issue. Reducing class size is important but also expensive. It’s a management issue. Now, it may not be expensive, but that

Teaching has always been an occupation that amazed me. I believe it to be one of the most important jobs that anyone could ever embrace. A person choosing their career to be a teacher is essentially choosing to take on the role that is similar to DNA. Teachers are the group of people that pass on knowledge (which is what DNA does in our bodies), through education to the rest of us. Imagine the pressure on them. Imagine for one second that you were given this task. To teach another person a certain subject in such a way so that, the person that you are teaching can incorporate this knowledge to their daily life. Could you confidently teach

What does it mean to be a profession? A profession is an occupation that produces expert level work, whose professionals uphold that expert level work and continually strive to add efficiency and legitimacy to what they are practicing. You can’t have a profession without

b. A profession must consistently and effectively produce expert work. In order to do so, a profession must consist of dedicated professionals who are committed to life-long learning and development to best serve their client. The relationship between the profession and client is built on trust. The profession earns the client’s trust by consistently demonstrating a self-policing ethic founded

The authors, through a discussion of these concepts, identify a set of five key attributes of the profession: expertise, trust, development, values, and service, and five for the professional:

Professions produce uniquely expert work, not routine or repetitive work. Medicine, theology, law, and the military are ―social trustee forms of professions.

“What does it mean to be a profession? Professions produce uniquely expert work, not routine or repetitive work.” “Effectiveness, rather than pure efficiency,

In the United States, majority of teachers are public school teachers and they make over three millions in numbers. The number of pupils per teacher has recorded a decline for the last few decades and it continues to decline to date. The average class size presently is over 20 pupils for public elementary schools and 23.4 for public secondary schools. This can tell the reason as to why teachers leave teaching professions because of workload.

Purpose: To persuade the class to recognize the issue of teacher shortages, consider the proposed ways to correct the issue, and work to rectify the situation.

During normal usage, it seems that the terms “profession” and “occupation” are almost identical and are interchangeable. Generally they both define the work people do for a living. However, after delving into their meanings, one can easily notice that the word profession is a bit more advanced than occupation. In other words, there are peculiar criteria or characteristics that an occupation has to meet in order to qualify as a profession.

What is a profession? First and foremost let’s look at how we can define a profession from a general point. A profession is an occupation requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation. Profession doesn’t mean only to be perfectly prepared on the basis of theoretical aspects, but to meet the strict criteria as well. A good professional should be a leader and leadership means solving problems. Leaders can be assessed according to the amount of resolved problems. Everybody has a tendency to be successful, in trying this; a successful leader has to be confident in his decisions. It follows from that, that generally we can consider the leader as an expert, a matured personality, somebody who meets the high

In the first year of teaching, four out of ten teachers quit. An educators job is not a walk in the park. In Kansas, we are facing a shortage of teachers. The most areas that are facing these shortages are Special Education, Adaptive and Functional Special Education, Early Childhood Handicapped, and hearing and visual impaired. It has been reported that Fewer students have chosen to major in education. There are many reasons that are causing the shortages, lack of