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The Teaching Profession and You

The Teaching Profession and You. Chapter 1. Choosing a Career. Childhood memories…what careers were contemplated, who influenced these thoughts? “The Pros and Cons of Teaching” challenges and frustrations (video)

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The Teaching Profession and You

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  1. The Teaching Profession and You Chapter 1

  2. Choosing a Career • Childhood memories…what careers were contemplated, who influenced these thoughts? • “The Pros and Cons of Teaching” challenges and frustrations (video) • The Good News and the Bad News…seven wide perspectives…which is most persuasive to you?

  3. Ever since I was very young I knew that • I never wanted to grow up and work • I always wanted to be a teacher • Choosing a career would be hard • I wanted to be rich • I mostly wanted to have a family • it didn’t matter what I did for work

  4. The Pros and Cons of Teaching • Cons: Heavy workloads, extra responsibilities, discipline issues, negative attitudes of students, unresponsive administrators, lack of support from parents…and salaries • Merit Pay…linking teacher performance and teacher salary…how do you measure teacher performance? • Tenure…expectancy of continued employment

  5. A Professional or a Tall Child? Criteria of a profession: • provide essential services, • identified with an area of need or function, • unique body of knowledge, • decisions made in accordance with principles and theories, • undergirding disciplines from which it applies knowledge and skills, • professional associations control the work

  6. Criteria of a Profession • Performance standards for admission • Protracted preparation period • High level of public trust and confidence • Strong service motivation and lifetime commitment to competence • The profession itself determines individual competence • Relative freedom from direct or public supervision • Respect and Salary for Teachers (video)

  7. Criteria for a semiprofession • Lower in occupational status • Shorter training period • Lack of societal acceptance of autonomy • Less specialized and less highly developed body of knowledge and skills • Markedly less emphasis on theory and conceptual bases for practice • Individual tends to identify with the employment institution more than the profession

  8. Criteria for a semiprofession • More subject to supervisory and administrative control • Less autonomy in professional decision making • Management by persons prepared in the same area • Preponderance of women • Absence of the right of privileged communication between client and professional • Little involvement in life and death matters

  9. I’m convinced that teaching is a • Profession • Semi-profession • Something other

  10. Percent of teachers who say • Work they love to do…96% • Would choose it again…80% • See it as a life-long choice…75% • Get a lot of satisfaction…68% • Fell into teaching by chance…12% • (data comes from teachers who have been teaching 5 years or less)

  11. From Normal Schools to Board-Certified Teachers • The Crusade to Educate Teachers (video) • Teacher Education: 1823 Reverend Samuel Hall established a normal school in Concord, Vermont…formal training in teaching skills • Horace Mann, 1839 in Lexington, Massachusetts…first state-supported normal school…two year teacher training in academics as well as teaching methodology

  12. History of teacher training • As the twentieth century progressed, professional teacher training gained wider acceptance…many colleges and universities expanded teacher training programs to three and four years (many normal schools evolved into state teachers’ colleges) • 1980s…A Nation at Risk…and the reforms to reshape education (Holmes Group issued Tomorrow’s Teachers; Carnegie Forum issued A Nation Prepared) • NBPTS…board certified teachers

  13. Before U.M.D. existed, it was • Duluth State Teachers’ College • Duluth Normal School • Duluth Technical College • University of Duluth

  14. How Teachers are prepared today • Traditional four or five year undergrad programs • Post-graduate programs (U of M, TC) • Alternative licensure, e.g. Teach for America, on-the-job training

  15. Legends about Teaching • Teachers are born, not made • All you really need to know is the subject you are teaching • Teacher education students are less talented than other college majors

  16. I really believe that • The best teachers are born not made • The most important thing is to know the subject you are teaching • Almost anybody can qualify to be a teacher • Good teaching takes special knowledge and skill • There are few good teachers

  17. Educational Associations • NEA: 3 million members, largest professional and employee organization in the nation, political action • AFT: 1 million members, streetwise union, liberal history of backing civil rights • The Fight for Teachers’ Rights (video)

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