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Title: Teaching as a Profession


1
Teaching as a Profession
  • Characteristics of any profession
  • A. Professional autonomy
  • B. Highly developed, theoretical knowledge base
  • C. Control of training, certification, and
    licensing of new entrants
  • D. Self-governing and self policing authority,
    especially with regard to professional ethics

2
Factors/concerns in teaching as a quasi-profession
  1. Low pay
  2. Teachers lack of control over workplace
  3. Predominance of women
  4. Many stakeholders in schools
  5. Multiplicity of teacher roles and
    responsibilities
  6. Teacher training/retraining
  7. Teacher morale

3
How North Carolina is meeting the demand for
higher standards
  • Teacher accountability through the ABCs testing
    program
  • Student accountability through the Gateways in
    grades 3,5,8 and 12
  • Encouraging teachers to attain National Board
    Certification by paying for their testing
  • Increasing Praxis scores for teachers
  • Statewide report card of schools of education

4
How are students affected by these changes?
  • Lose Control, Lose Your License law
  • Increased testing
  • Various graduation tracks
  • Career Preparation
  • College Technical Preparation
  • College Preparation
  • Increased technology requirements
  • Zero tolerance for weapons

5
How teachers are affected
  • Increased technology requirements for
    certification
  • Increased salaries
  • Increased accountability and incentives for
    students performances
  • Site based management in some schools
  • Increase in Lateral Entry teachers
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