Word: professionalizing
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The pressure's telling. Only 10 or 20 years ago, Australia's biggest problem with teachers was recruiting them - encouraging enough brainy high-school graduates to study for a career in front of a blackboard. Today there's no shortage of trainees - high demand for places in education courses at...
...their darling's class, or that there aren't 45 spots on the school netball team. But teachers won't be surprised to hear that, outside of staff rooms, there seems to be little sympathy for them. A prevalent view is that central to teaching is handling - patiently and professionally - the expectations and anxieties of even the most objectionable parents. "If you can't or won't do that," says Sharryn Brownlee, president of the N.S.W. Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations, "then don't teach." In February, the federal Minister for Education, Science and Training, Brendan Nelson, directed...
While the profession of mathematician-turned-consultant might seem an odd transition, it has been a profession in the making in the recent past.
Long considered one of the most prestigious honors in the teaching profession, the National Teacher of the Year Award is decided by a committee of representatives from 14 national education groups. Kamras is the first teacher from D.C. to receive the award since the program began in 1952.
The report, titled “Inequities Persist for Women and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession,” found that men still outnumber women by over two to one on full-time faculties of doctoral universities.