1. Teaching as a Profession

2. Characteristics of a profession
Lengthy period of education and/or training
Delivers superior services
High level of public trust
Specialized knowledge
Authority
Autonomy
Professional associations
A code of ethics
High level of prestige
Higher than average financial rewards

3. Characteristics of teachers
they possess specialized knowledge and skills about education
they have been selected to enter professional programs
their knowledge and skill have been evaluated during their general and professional studies

4. Characteristics of teachers (cont.)
they have fulfilled requirements for certification
they have met requirements for graduation from an institution of higher education
Teaching is an emerging profession

5. Teacher Certification

6. GROUP WORK
Do you think each of the routes to achieving certification produces equally qualified teachers? Why or why not?

7. Changing Aims of Education
As society changes and different groups seek to further their interests and promote their causes, the aims of education change.
Criticism and demands for reform come from various social and interest groups.

8. Changing Aims of Education (cont.)
How satisfied are you about the quality of education of this country?

9. Gallup Poll
Very satisfied
Somewhat satisfied
Not too satisfied
Not at all satisfied
No opinion
Jan.
2000
13% 41 28 17 1
1997
10% 36 30 23
1993 8% 32 2

10. Would you say that public education today in K through 12 is better, about the same, or worse than when you were a student?

11. Gallup Poll (April 2000) Better About the same Worse No opinion 28% 15
National adults
28% 15 54 3
K-12 parents
33% 12 52

12. Teacher Education Reports and Reforms of the 1980s and 1990s—Page 20 of Text.

13. GROUP RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
In groups of 4 or 5 (not more than 5), choose one early reform in education and one teacher education report/reform.
In your group, prepare a research paper on each of the reports/reforms that you have chosen.
Your group will make a presentation to the class on your papers.

14. RESEARCH: 1. Aims of American Public education
Committee of Ten (1892)
Seven Cardinal Principles (1918)
The Purpose of Education in American Democracy (1938)
Education for all American Youth (1944)
The Central purpose of American Education (1961)
A Nation at Risk (1983) 8