Teaching as a Profession

Which of the following would not be a personality characteristic for an effective teacher to have?

• Caring
  
• Kindness
• Intolerance
• Commitment 

Most school districts provide all of the following benefits to their teachers except which of the following?

• Health insurance
  
• Paid vacation 
• Paid or unpaid leave of absence 
• Retirement savings plan 

Refers to an arrangement in which the same teacher and group of students remain in one classroom for most of the day, with one teacher teaching most or all subjects.

• self-contained classrooms
• collaborative learning
• curriculum
• nonsectarian

A curriculum developed by the teachers and staff of a school or school district for use in their own classrooms.

• school-based curriculum
• self-contained classrooms
• extracurricular activities
• collaborative learning

People who design, conduct, and supervise programs to improve the skills of a company’s employees.

• corporate trainers
• paraprofessional
• collaborative learning
• technical schools

A person who has less education or experience but works under the supervision of a more highly educated professional.

• teacher
• paraprofessional
• corporate trainers
• self-contained classrooms

Thinking about ideas and concepts and connecting feelings with thoughts (for example, justice or love).

• school-based curriculum
• concrete thinking
• curriculum
• abstract thinking

Activities that take place before or after school.

• technical schools
• extracurricular activities
• postsecondary education
• collaborative learning

The courses taught in a school, what is taught in each course, and how the courses are sequenced.

• curriculum
• nonsectarian
• self-contained classrooms
• collaborative learning

Post-secondary schools that are designed to teach the specific skills needed to begin working in a trade.

• self-contained classrooms
• high schools
• technical schools
• extracurricular activities