Question | Answer |
Why do teachers want to teach? | To create a difference, to shape students into the humans they need to be to success in the real world. |
What is student variability? | Difference among students in regards to needs, interests, abilities, and disabilities. |
What is student diversity? | Difference among students in regards to gender, race, ethnicity, and culture/religion. |
What are the benefits of teaching? | Job security, flexible hours, and benefits. |
What are the challenges of teaching? | Long work hours, high stakes testing, and low starting salaries. |
What is High Stakes Testing? | A mandated standardized test to assess students mastery of academic standards. |
What type of areas are teachers most needed in? | They are most needed in Math and Science. |
What is tenure? | Job security granted to teachers after satisfactory performance for a specific period, usually 2 to 5 years. |
What are professional standards? | Ensure that all students are taught by highly qualified teachers. |
How many decisions do teachers make daily? | 3000 decisions |
How many teachers are in the US? | There are 4,000,000 million teachers |
What is the racial makeup of most teachers? Gender? | Predominately white, females |
What are some specialized areas of teaching? | Art teachers, Music teachers, Vocational teachers, Phys Ed teachers, Special Education teachers |
What is Special Education? | Teachers who work with children in youth who have a variety of disabilities. |
What is Vocational Education? | Teachers train students to work in fields such as health care, business, auto repair, communications, and technology. |
What does IEP stand for? ELLs? | IEP stands for Individualized Education Program for students and work collaboratively with regular classroom teachers. Parents social workers, school,psychologist, and other school staff. ELL is English Language Learners. |
What is teacher subject content knowledge? Pedagogical knowledge? | Teacher subject content knowledge is just knowing what you're teaching, Pedagogical knowledge the joint product of wisdom about teacher and learning, students and content. |
What are professional organizations? Example. | Organizations that support a variety of activities to improve teaching in schools. Ex: The National Education Association |
What is collaboration? Peer coaching? | Collaboration is meaningful authentic relationships among professionals. Peer coaching is a mentoring program for new teachers. |
What are charter schools? | Independent, public schools, often founded by teachers that are given a charter to operate by a school district, state, or national government. |
What are magnet schools? | Offers a curriculum that focuses on a specific area such as the performing arts, math, science, international studies, or technology. |
What are the three requirements for a highly qualified teacher? | Self knowledge, knowledge of students, and knowledge of subject |
What is alternative certification? | They are designed for people who already have a bachelors degree in a field other than education and want to become licensed to teach |
What are some of the challenges of teaching tech savvy students? How are teachers dealing with this challenge? | Computers have changed the way people in the outside world read, write, calculate and think. Teachers are trying to integrate technology in the classroom. |
How much time does the average teen spend daily with technology? | 10 hours and 45 minutes |