Are Teachers Professionals? I've heard a lot of talk about teachers as professionals, or at least the desire for teachers to be professionals. I'm not sure many people would disagree that, in an ideal system, teachers would be at least close to on-par with doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc.

1. Are Teachers Professionals?
I've heard a lot of talk about teachers as
professionals, or at least the desire for teachers to
be professionals. I'm not sure many people
would disagree that, in an ideal system, teachers
would be at least close to on-par with doctors,
lawyers, engineers, etc.

2.  If the government suggested to doctors which treatment
they should prescribe to their patients, there would be an
outcry. If politicians tried to tell lawyers how to handle
individual clients' cases, they would face fierce
resistance.
 So why is it that when ministers recommended a
particular choice of school subjects at age 14 – covering
maths, English, science, a language and a humanity –
over half of English schools jumped straight to it and
changed their curriculum offer?
 Don't teachers have the same level of professional
expertise as doctors and lawyers?

3. INDIA: A Nation at Risk, our education system has been
fixated on raising student performance. Over the decade,
we have witnessed the coming and going of many
initiatives designed to achieve that end—through the
restructuring of schools and programs and the
development of standards, curricula, teaching materials,
and, yes, standardized assessments.
Yet, in spite of the billions of dollars spent, student
performance has been affected very little.

4.  The main reason for that failure is that too little attention
has been paid to what actually goes on in the classroom.
As an old adage puts it, ―If you do what you’ve always
done, you will get the results you’ve always gotten.‖
 In addition, professional development should
 (1) deepen teachers’ knowledge of the subjects being
taught;
 (2) sharpen teaching skills in the classroom;
 (3) keep up with developments in the individual fields,
and in education generally;
 (4) increase the ability to monitor students’ work, in
order to provide constructive feedback to students and
appropriately redirect teaching

5.  Is teaching a profession? It is one of the controversial
questions in the modern society of India. Most
teachers in public and private schools are college
graduates with years training in teaching.
 However, many people are thinking that if
"everybody boil water and coach basketball, then
they kind of feel the same way about teaching

6.  When the teachers are to be professionalized, the
practitioner-client relationships should be changed,
too. As the patients choose the best medical doctors,
the students (and their parents) should have a
mechanism to choose the best teachers for a
successful education at school. Because of the
changing needs of the teachers will have to be
professionals, much like doctors.

7. Why Teachers are So Stressed...check it out!
When in School we always wondered why teachers
always seemed so mad I know the reason….because
they are so stressed out by kids
Why???????

20.  Waiting for 'Superman': Are Teachers the
Problem?
 like teachers reading newspapers in class;
 Doing correction, register work
 Sitting means passive and expect active
participation of class (students) like students
are playing in ground and physical teachers are
talking.
Use your skills to help kids get on track — and
stay on track

21.  Students often feel as though teachers are speaking a
different language and not much else. It's really hard
to learn anything when you can't understand a single
word the teacher says.
 How among are you getting in my lecture and
following sincerely
 JUST Same is happening in your class.....

22.  While the phrase "Go to the principal's
office" has always conjured fear, school is
being haunted by a ghost.
 Critics of zero tolerance policies
frequently refer to cases where minor
offenses have resulted in severe
punishments and instead make schools
more like a jail or a prison
 Research shows that school suspension
and expulsion result in a number of
negative outcomes for both schools and
students.
No Child Left Behind, we can now
track how well individual students are
doing from year to year

24.  Be on time in school and class room
 Sit only in staff rooms or in labs or library
 Don’t sit anywhere in any empty classroom
 Copy correction on time and with proper remarks
 Should take attendance regularly in both meeting
 Don’t feel jealous with others if they have given extra
work or duties, better try to learn from them so you can
be next….

25. Its foundation is built upon Four Building Blocks of
Education as promoted by the Council for Global
Education, USA:
 Universal Values: the spirit ‘to be’
 Global Understanding: the heart ‘to love’
 Excellence in All Things: the mind ‘to discover’
 Service to Humanity: the skills to ‘serve and make a
difference’
Would you board a flight which only gives 80% guarantee
of reaching you safely to your destination? No not at all.
We teach children, not subjects.