Teaching as a Profession

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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