Teaching is the most important profession because teachers have the ability to profoundly influence students and shape their futures. Several studies have shown that teachers have significant impacts on student achievement, attendance at college, future earnings, and other life outcomes. Good teachers can improve student performance while poor teachers can negatively affect students. The work of teachers is crucial for building the next generation and developing the leaders and workforce of the future.

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September 19, 2016
Why Teaching is the Most Important Profession?

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“Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and
challenges.”― Joyce Meyer
“Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.”
― Charles Kuralt
“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a
lasting impact in the lives of their students. ― Solomon Ortiz.
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence
stops.” ― Henry Adams
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important
members of society because their professional efforts affect the
fate of the earth.” ― Helen Caldicott
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* Teaching is the most difficult job that anyone can have- and the
most rewarding.
Teachers are nation builders- the strength of every
profession in our country grows out of knowledge and
skills that teachers help to instill in our children.
-Leaders of Change
Teachers have the capacity to shape the minds and futures
of many - and they do so at all kinds of critical life stages.
Teachers, indeed, possess a
great power to influence
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“Ample qualitative research shows that a single
teacher can shape the course of a young
person’s future, for better or worse,”
- Jerusha Connor, education professor at Villanova
University.
In a 2012 study, The RAND Corporation, a leading research
nonprofit, found that “teachers matter more to student
achievement than any other aspect of schooling.” They
said, “When it comes to student performance on reading and
math tests, a teacher is estimated to have two to three times
the impact of any other school factor, including services,
facilities, and even leadership.”
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Another study from 2012, by Harvard economists Raj Chetty
and John N. Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia,
tracked 2.5 million students from the same urban school
district over 20 years, from fourth grade to adulthood. The
results showed that a good teacher can influence a
student’s chances to attend college, earn more money, and
even avoid teen pregnancy.
........the researchers found, “when a high VA [value-added]
teacher joins a school, test scores rise immediately in the
grade taught by that teacher; when a high VA teacher leaves,
test scores fall.”
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If a good teacher can improve his or her students’ lives,
naturally a bad teacher can have an adverse effect.
Barack Obama perhaps said it best in 2008 when he first
ran for President: “The single most important factor
in determining [student] achievement is not the
color of their skin or where they come from. It’s not
who their parents are or how much money they
have. It’s who their teacher is.”
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Teaching is an Art that needs to be sculpted, practiced,
improved upon and worked towards. If teaching is viewed as
an art and those that practice teaching take their art seriously
and with creative flair then we have great teachers. If we have
great teachers then we have achieving students and
successful schools and communities. It is when teaching is
not seen as an art and it is when teachers are not practicing
their craft that teachers stop actually imparting information
and knowledge to students, teachers stop teaching. If
teachers are not effectively doing their jobs in the classroom
a school cannot be successful and this has an immediate
impact on the community and all of the families within the
community.
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1. The potential to transform lives
2. It gives you the chance to be
continuously creative
3. It offers you a chance to continuously get
better
4. It is a grounding, humbling profession
5. There is always satisfaction somewhere
6. It’s a chance to truly to lead the world
in the 21st century
7. The children
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