The State of the Teaching Profession Before starting my debate research, I made a cluster graphic organizer to see which characteristics correlated with the topic, the state of the teaching profession. The overall themes I came up with where teacher shortage, retention, and how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards affects teacher retention. Collectively, as a group, we decided on our three debate topics: teacher residency programs, teacher shortage related to mentorship, and the
Mehta’s second justification for characterizing teachers as a “semi-profession” is teachers’ ineffectiveness in acting as “guardians of the public good”. For instance, because many other professions were increasingly perceived as more interested in protecting their members than in improving their practice, “education has been unable to convince the public that a specialized body of knowledge is required for teaching, authority, more than most professionals depends on a perceived commitment to helping
believe to be characteristics of a profession? The characteristics of a profession should be kept professional, have integrity, and virtue. In the work place being professional is important because we as teachers fraternize ourselves with others. We should be able to draw a boundary between work and personal affairs, which could cause distress
Week 2: January 17-23 Michael D. Bayles “The Professions” 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
According to Andy Rutledge a profession are described as a calling which requires specialised knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation. He also states that a profession is a vocation founded upon specialised educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested objective counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation ,wholly apart from expectation of other business gain.Futhermore to drive his definition he suggested Characteristics
The United States is currently facing a difficult time with teacher shortages. In North Carolina alone, 14.8 percent of teachers left the profession in the school years of 2014-2015 according to the Public School Forum (Barth et al. 23). Teacher shortage is a crucial topic to keep at the forefront of discussion because it affects the quality of education that students receive and, subsequently, the future of the United States. It is crucial for the United States to enhance student performance in
When you think about teaching and the amount of work and school one must put into becoming a teacher, how can you argue that it is not a profession? All teachers must get a masters and pass rigorous tests to get their licensure as well as have the perfect personality to work with the children of their choice. Although not all teachers are held by the same regard as other professionals, they do have some if not all the same characteristics required to be a professional. To teach in a public school
Terrence Hendrix Professor Phil West English 1301- 468 11 December 2014 I Am Not A Babysitter: A Rhetorical Analysis Teaching is not a lowly job as most people think. Teaching is a profession that is highly, commendable just like banking, nursing and other professions. However, some people often ridicule the teaching profession merely because of its poor pay, poor career prospects, not to mention the perceived monotony of the daily routine writing lesson plans and preparing lecture materials. Despite
Professionalism and the Vocational Culture of Teaching ‘Teaching has never been recognised as a profession mainly because of its inability to promote and demonstrate a distinctive expertise’ (Beck, 2008). The status of teaching has always been seen as an uncertain position, according to Etzioni, he characterised it as one of the ‘semi – professions’ (Etzioni, 1969). Teaching definitely struggled to get the same degree of professional independency as professions like medicine and law (Braun, 2012). The
Teaching styles, learning styles, behavior management, how to write lesson plans, learning and behavioral theories, how to make seating charts, best practices, and standards are among a few thing taught in college to inspiring teachers. This is followed by a few months in a classroom alongside a veteran teacher. Then teachers are released into the world to find and keep a teaching job as well as teach the minds of tomorrow, but are colleges really preparing teachers for the classroom? Fifty percent