This semester I am taking an Introduction to Education class and was so surprised to learn within the first few class meetings that teaching is considered a semi-profession, not an actual profession! Apparently there are certain criteria that a job must meet to be considered a profession.
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For the last 50 years educators have devoted a great deal of energy to the debate over whether teaching can be considered a profession. Unfortunately, this turns out to have been the wrong question, and so led us to the wrong sort of answers.
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If need to hold a professional degree or specialized cert or license it could be considered a profession. Thinking that most schools around here require a MA.ed I would say yes. ... Open Questions in Teaching...
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Another word for vocation is calling. It means that one feels God has called him/her to do a particular work. So a vocation could be any kind of job at all. Homemaking can be a vocation, as can medical research. But the word in education ha...
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Therefore, teaching should be regarded as a profession. ... Yet, fighting for teacher professionalism and autonomy will provide teachers with a better opportunity to grow into a group who can one day have total control over licensing and teaching standards.
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Being a doctor and a lawyer are considered a profession, so why wouldn't teaching be considered a profession? Those doctors and lawyers were once taught by teachers.
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I was asked by a college student of the St. Joseph College here in Maasin City, why teaching is considered the noble profession. Teaching is really a noble profession. Everyone of us, including our nation's Presidents are the product of teaching. ... No other profession is greater than teaching. Without teacher,
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Teachers, Schools, and Society by Sadker & Sadker ... Online Learning Cente ... Should teaching be considered a "profession"?
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Organising voluntary help must also be considered. ‘Social rewards’ of various kinds, for example certificates of appreciation, tax benefits, etc., can also be used to motivate volunteers. These teachers can fill in the void created by lack of high quality input in the teaching profession.
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From the Bolton Evening News, first published Friday 1st Apr 2005. ... TEACHING should not be considered as a profession because not enough training is given to those who go into it, a Bolton-born education expert claims.
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