Ch. 1- The Teaching Profession and You

Attempts to reward the best teachers; evaluated sometimes through student test scores, other times through those who teach challenging subjects or schools can be referred to as receiving ...

• Performance rating

• Salary performance pay

• Merit approach performance pay

• Merit pay or pay for performance

An expectancy of continued employment after a probationary period, typically 4 consecutive years within the same school district, and after teaching satisfactorily can be referred to as receiving ...

• Censure

• Non-tenure

• Tenure

• Renewal

These two men were involved in establishing normal schools in 1823 and 1839; these schools provided elementary school graduates with formal training consisting of academic subjects as well as teaching methodology, typically a two year program.

• Rafe Esquith and Charles Schultz

• Reverend Samuel Hall and Horace Mann

• W. Kopp and B. Gates

• Socrates and Darwin

Teaching hasn't always been viewed as a professional career throughout the ages. Many colleges and universities initiated teacher education programs. Today, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is an additional professional standard for teaching above a college degree. This program was created and governed by practicing teachers and their advocates to ...

• increase awareness, gain popularity, and demand higher pay

• advance the quality of teaching and learning by maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do

• receive recognition for their learning and perform well on tests while gaining responsibility

• receive a teaching license

Teachers are born, not made. However training and practice is what is needed to transform a strong teacher into a gifted one such as becoming skilled in pedagogy, which is ...

• the art and science of teaching, especially teaching methods and strategies.

• the art and science of learning, such as exemplified content subject learning.

• the learning from mentors and skills practitioners of school culture and norms.

• providing systematic and sustained assistance to beginning teachers.

Teachers are born, not made. However training and practice is what is needed to transform a strong teacher into a gifted one such as becoming skilled in pedagogy, which is ...

• the art and science of teaching, especially teaching methods and strategies.

• the art and science of learning, such as exemplified content subject learning.

• the learning from mentors and skills practitioners of school culture and norms.

• providing systematic and sustained assistance to beginning teachers.

The stages of teacher developed include the following steps:

• Knowledge, Survival, Resiliency, and Growth

• Survival, Consolidation, Renewal, and Maturity

• Knowledge, Survival, Reflection, and Renewal

• Survival, Reflection, Consolidation, and Growth

Teachers are no exception to the stresses of their work; like other career, it is important to seek out experienced teachers to guide your learning in the field through school culture, norms, hidden rules, and official policies and procedures; these are known as

• Resource teachers

• BFF's

• Colleagues

• Mentors

While learning your craft, usually 1-4 years, a new teacher would benefit from seeking assistance within these areas:

• where to place equipment, smooth lines to say to parents and students to get them off your back, and how to de-stress from the work day.

• how to find a shoulder to learn on, gain focus and thoughtful time to learn new things, who to talk to about the flaws of the school and student mistakes.

• working alone while scouring YouTube for dozens of self help and teaching videos.

• Insights on curricular materials, hints on teaching strategies and classroom mgt., advice on scheduling problems, suggestions on smoothing out stressful communications, and observing a class to analyze for improvement.

An induction program provides ...

• some systematic and sustained assistance to beginning teachers for at least one school year.

• need focused and thoughtful time to support new technologies, diversity of the workforce, and additional competencies for teachers.

• a committee of personnel to support teachers with support in many areas of needs.

• a group of personnel that assist with conferences, workshops, and publications to teachers at the beginning of their career.