Chapter 2 Flashcards
Profession
An exclusive occupational group that applies abstract knowledge and specialized skills particular cases
Professionalism
Accepting responsibility for developing and growing one’s expertise
Apprenticeship of observation
The phenomenon were late persons who have spent thousands of hour at school, children, watching and judging teachers in practice, develop many false ideas about teaching and mistakenly considering themselves experts
Pedagogy
The method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept
Charlotte Danielson’s framework
Validated as a means for teachers to improve their teaching practice and ways that can increase measured student achievement
Reciprocity
An agreement between states to accept each other’s teaching credentials
Prestige
The level of social respect or standing a job has
The position are standing in society, that confers certain benefits and privileges
Status
The self perception of rank or prestige that emphasizes personal achieve
Subjective status
Professionalization
An occupations qualities usually enhanced by increasing training or raising required qualifications
Defined benefit (DB) plans
Special annual retirement benefit based on a formula, generally considered final average salaries and years of service 
A _____ is an example of teacher autonomy
English teacher selecting the literature they will teach
True or false | US teachers certification requirements are the same from state to state
False
Which of the following describes how individuals arrive at ideas about the teaching profession based on their own experiences as students
Apprenticeship of observation
Which action has greatly improved teacher status over the past century
 education level
True or false | teacher salaries have buying large, kept up with inflation and wages for other occupations requiring a college degree in the United States
False
A system of employment compensation, that links salary to measures of work, quality or goals
Performance pay or merit pay
Salary incentive programs that give teachers extra compensation for acquiring new knowledge and practices
Knowledge and skill based pay
The practice of paying effective teachers more than their colleagues with similar years of experienced if they agree to teach hard to staff subjects or work in hard to staff school
Differentiated salary schedules
Multiple roots to new rules and responsibilities that best fit their career interest and goals
Career pathways
Providing release time or a part-time classroom schedule that supports teacher and instructional leadership activities during the school day
Hybrid rolls
True or false | a teacher that is new to the field is less effective than an experience teacher
False
Which of the following teacher openings would school districts generally be willing to pay a higher teacher salary for
Math teacher
What is the relationship between teacher performance pay and student achievement
Research shows the performance pay incentives, have no major implications on student achievement
The series of courses in field experiences that educate individuals to become teachers
Teacher preparation
Career preparation pathways that typically allow candidates to begin teaching while working on teach program coursework and requirements
Alternate teacher routes
Which is an example of an alternative teacher route
An accelerated degree program in which students teach while completing coursework
More than 42% of teachers leave the profession after teaching for _____ years
Five
True or false | teacher preparation programs must be federally approved
False
How do new teachers become licensed?
Formal academic training
Completion of an accredited teacher preparation program
Statewide assessments and testing
Additional checking
True or false | teacher, certification, and teacher licensure means the same thing
True
Which is an example of Practica
School observations
A course of study designed, especially to prepare teachers
Practica
A group of employees who come together voluntarily with the shared goal of improving their working conditions
A union
A formal process that gives union members a voice and decisions that affect its members compensation and work lives
Collective bargaining
Strikes
When employees stop working in support of demands made on their employer
What should be considered before striking?
Personally and professional ethics
Employment
Colleagues
Students
Administration
It means of self policing and quality control
Accreditation
InTASC (interstate assessment and support consortium)
A group of state, educated agencies in national educational organizations, dedicated to reforming teacher preparation, licensing, and ongoing professional development
NBPTS (National board for professional teaching standards)
A voluntary system to provide a national advanced teaching credentials for most pre-K through 12 teachers
Which is an example of a common outcome of a strike?
Increase teacher salaries in classroom resources
True or false | teacher union participation has remained steady among teachers over the years
False
Which of the following is the most likely caused for a teacher strike?
Low pay
True or false | the American Federation of teachers is the largest professional organization in US labor union
False
The set of beliefs, values assumptions in relationships that educators and staff share about teaching and learning
Professional culture
A comprehensive coherent and sustain professional development process that the school district organizes to train support and retain new teachers
Induction
A specific type of induction program consisting of a collegial supportive relationship developed between a veteran and a new teacher to ease the transition into the realities of daily classroom teaching
Mentoring
True or false | Mentoring is a specific type of induction aim to assist early career professionals
True
____ refers to beliefs, values expectations in relationships that educators and staff share about teaching and learning that influence how a school functions
Professional culture
