Teaching Profession Essay

pronouncement on the education of [Limited-English-proficient] children in the 1980s, and probably the most criticized as well" (Crawford, 1989, p. 94).” (English Only Movement…) Supporters of the monolingual educational implementation promote the usage of teaching English through only the use of English, not a bilingual…

Philosophy of Education What is education? What does it mean to be an educator? What is the point of it? These are questions that seem so simple, yet if one were to ask their neighbors, they would receive a great number of different answers. In the English language, we derive the word educate from the Latin word “ducere”, to lead. This is what I believe to lay at the core to answering these questions. As educators, I believe it our duty to lead students to understanding themselves, their future…

Background The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) is rank the 8th largest school district in the country, with approximately 135,000 students across 218 schools (School District of Philadelphia website). The district’s unique urban location allows for a more “racially and ethnically diverse” population of students. Thus making the majority of the students that make up the demographics of the district to include: Black/African Americans (51%), Hispanic/Latino (19.5%), white (13.7%) and…

important and is taught in many secondary and high schools around the United States. Some examples of foreign languages taught in various schools are French, Spanish, and Chinese. These are three of the most popular languages taught in the country. Teaching students these languages are important because it gives the student an understanding of the cultures, and history of other ethnicities. Also, speaking a foreign language makes you a better candidate for a job over someone who does not know…

know the word order for sentence structures, and a lot of times it becomes difficult for people because they find that they don’t even know what a direct object or preposition is. Often times grammar has a low score on testing because of the lack of teaching these things in English class, but you are practically forced to learn them when studying another language, resulting in a better understanding of the grammar in English as well. Knowing and/or learning Spanish could aid your English…

Toastmasters International (TI) is non-for-profit educational organization. It helps individuals from diverse backgrounds and specialties improve their leadership and communication skills. TI first club was founded in October, 1924 by Dr. Ralph C. Smedley - the director of education of Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) in Santa Ana, California, U.S. at that time. Dr. Smedley formed the first group of speakers there when he realized the pressing need of YMCA members to communicate, lead and…

journal examines a three-year study that focused on the correlation between the rate of teachers leaving the profession and teacher salaries. The study showed a negative correlation, which means the lower the salary for teachers in that district, the higher the teacher turnover. This also means, the higher the teachers’ salary is, the more likely teachers are to stay in the district and profession. I would use this article in my paper when discussing the causes of teacher turnover. This is…

Feminization of Teaching Why Men Left but Women Stayed Teaching is one of the oldest profession known to mankind. Everyone has been taught in some form. Children are taught to walk and talk; teenagers and adults are taught a trade. Everyone is a learner, and everyone is an educator. There is the unregulated school of life and there is the formal school that millions of children in the United States attend each day. The concept of formal schooling has changed drastically over the centuries.…

rules and distributing discipline. This phenomenon is all too common throughout most schools in Missouri. A common faux-pas is that teaching is for females, while administrative positions are for males. It is time for females to break that glass ceiling and secure those coveted administrative positions and for men to end the stigma that clings to the male teaching profession. According to a study by the National…

(Struvyven& Vanthournout, 2014). Ingersoll, Merrill & Stuckey (2014) study analyzing the transformation of the American teaching forces found that the teaching force is increasingly less stable as the statistics on annual teacher attrition from 1988-1989 to 2008-2009 reveals that attrition rate increased by 41% from 6.4% to 9%. The attrition represents those leaving teaching profession completely and those moving to another school or district. Data collected reveals that in 2004-2005, 45% of…