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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Teaching as a profession."”.
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Perceptions of Teaching as a Profession as held by Practicing Teachers in Selected High Schools of Lusaka District
Given that teachers are in a position to assess their perception of teaching as a profession. The present study focused on high school teachers’ perceptions of teaching as a profession and the factors that influenced their perceptions. The purpose of this study was to investigate high school …
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Perceptions of Teaching as a Profession as held by Practicing Teachers in Selected High Schools of Lusaka District
Given that teachers are in a position to assess their perception of teaching as a profession. The present study focused on high school teachers’ perceptions of teaching as a profession and the factors that influenced their perceptions. The purpose of this study was to investigate high school …
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Prospects and politics of professional power in England: an exploration of the state of teaching as a profession following the birth of the General Teaching Council for England
This thesis examines the status of teaching as a profession following the establishment of the General Teaching Council for England in 2000. After developing a theoretical framework for analysing the concept of profession, and addressing some of the confusion which often arises from the different …
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Convergence or Divergence of Values? A Comparison Case Study of Teacher Credentialing Programs
… have long debated whether or not public school teaching is a profession. The definition of a profession is commonly anchored in Andrew Abbott's criteria, which include knowledge (specialized and academic), jurisdiction (diagnosis, treatment, professional inference), and control (ethics, …
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A reflection in practice: School improvement. A superintendent's perspective: The Joliet story
… (Carnegie Forum of Education & the Economy's Task Force on Teaching as a Profession, 1986; hereinafter referred to as the Carnegie Forum), many school districts intensified their efforts to reform schools.
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The Perceived Causes For the Shortage of Minority Teachers
The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceived causes for the shortage of ethnic minorities in the teaching profession. Undergraduate ethnic minority students at Southwest Missouri State University who were not education majors were surveyed to determine their reasons for not choosing …
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Pre-Collegiates Students' Teaching Identities
… of the research indicates that identifying self as a teacher can be a life-long, complex personal and social process. This researcher investigated 4 pre-collegiate students' construction of a teaching identity during their participation in an introduction to teaching course conducted in a rural …
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The Effective Teaching, Learning, and Leadership Master's Degree Program and Preparation of Teachers for National Board Certification
… the theoretical and practical implications for professionalizing teaching through National Board Certification (NBG); (b) to examine the connections between the Effective Teaching, Learning, and Leadership (ETLL) Program at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, and NB core propositions. The ETLL …
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National Board Certified Physical Education Teachers: A descriptive analysis
"The Carnegie Task Force on Teaching as a Profession in 1986 released ""A Nation Prepared"". This seminal document was produced in an effort to improve instruction within the United States. Among its recommendations, the Carnegie foundation called for the establishment of a National Board that …
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A Study of Group Attitudes Toward the Professional Status of Teachers in Selected Adventist Elementary and Secondary Schools
<p>Problem. It was not known to what extent groups associated with Adventist education supported the professional role orientation of teaching which in turn affected the work behavior and morale of teachers.</p> <p>Method. A Professional Role Orientation Scale (PROS) was responded to by 701 …
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A comparative analysis of personality characteristics of industrial arts teachers in the United States
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of selected demographic variables and personality variables to industrial arts teaching. The groups under investigation were: the national group (A) of 156 American Industrial Arts Association teacher of the year recipients and the …
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Improving the training of pre-service physics teachers in Malaysia using didaktik analysis
… in this thesis examined the use of a didaktik-based approach to thinking about teaching and learning to the training of pre-service physics teachers in a Malaysian teacher training programme. The process of developing a specific content knowledge (real or true physics) was done through a …