The author certainly didn’t mince words in this chapter. It primarily covered the reasons people decide to go into teaching, the job market for teachers, and where they can expect to find jobs. Special consideration was given to the fact that teaching is not an easy profession. The education system needs to overhaul a great deal of the way teaching is done.
First in the chapter was a discussion of the motives and outlooks of people going into teaching. The author states that though the majority have respectable motives for going into teaching, such as the love of children and learning, love alone is not enough to sustain a teacher in the long term. Numerous teachers burn out within the first few years of teaching. They begin to lose …show more content…
The text says, “But today the scales of the occupation are out of balance, tipped heavily toward the concern for students” (Newman, 2006). School counselors are best equipped to deal with the social/emotional and family concerns of students. In order to avoid burnout, teachers need to be able to concentrate on academics as well as student concern. I believe they can be supported in this by school counselors (providing counselors do not have overbearing caseloads). This sentiment was also supported by the related article we read, “The Status of the Teaching Profession 2011). As more “support personnel” is taken from teachers, they are forced to take on more students and work with fewer resources (WestEd, …show more content…
The author states that the majority of teachers will not be working in the same type of school they grew up in. Nearly all teachers are white, middle class, females who grew up in suburbs. A large number of new teachers will be working in more diverse schools facing high poverty and low achievement. While I fall well into the author’s description of most teaching candidates (female, white, middle class), I realize that, for the most part, jobs for me as a beginning school counselor will be available in rural areas with high poverty, and in cities with diverse populations. I am actually excited about being a school counselor in this type of school and I hope that anyone wishing to work for a school has the same feeling. Our students are also in an increasingly diverse world and they will need good models to
First in the chapter was a discussion of the motives and outlooks of people going into teaching. The author states that though the majority have respectable motives for going into teaching, such as the love of children and learning, love alone is not enough to sustain a teacher in the long term. Numerous teachers burn out within the first few years of teaching. They begin to lose …show more content…
The text says, “But today the scales of the occupation are out of balance, tipped heavily toward the concern for students” (Newman, 2006). School counselors are best equipped to deal with the social/emotional and family concerns of students. In order to avoid burnout, teachers need to be able to concentrate on academics as well as student concern. I believe they can be supported in this by school counselors (providing counselors do not have overbearing caseloads). This sentiment was also supported by the related article we read, “The Status of the Teaching Profession 2011). As more “support personnel” is taken from teachers, they are forced to take on more students and work with fewer resources (WestEd, …show more content…
The author states that the majority of teachers will not be working in the same type of school they grew up in. Nearly all teachers are white, middle class, females who grew up in suburbs. A large number of new teachers will be working in more diverse schools facing high poverty and low achievement. While I fall well into the author’s description of most teaching candidates (female, white, middle class), I realize that, for the most part, jobs for me as a beginning school counselor will be available in rural areas with high poverty, and in cities with diverse populations. I am actually excited about being a school counselor in this type of school and I hope that anyone wishing to work for a school has the same feeling. Our students are also in an increasingly diverse world and they will need good models to