Chapter 15

Chapter 15:
What does it mean to be a professional?
A profession renders a unique, definite, and essential service to society. It relies on intellectual skills in the performance of its service. It entails along period of specialized training. Enjoys of considerable degree of autonomy and decision making authority. A profession requires its members to accept personal responsibility for their actions and decisions. A profession has a code of ethics that sets out the acceptable standards of conducts for its own members.
There are three levels of teachers professionalism:
1. Imitative- Maintenance teacher. 2. Meditative Teacher. 3. Generative-Creative Teacher.
Two Associations" NBPTS and NEA. The NBPTS has been working to recognize and provide greater support to superior teacher, those on level three.
Five Characteristics of NBPTS:
-They support experience teachers, teachers with a baccalaureate or advance degree.
-“Taking the boards” is completely voluntary.
-"Taking the boards” involves submitting oneself to a set of examinations and assessments in particular areas or subject matters .
-These assessments are not typical paper-and-pencil tests.
-Primary control of the NBPTS is in the hands of a sixty-three-person board of directors.
The NEA.
 Their goal has been to "elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching and to promote the cause of education in the United States".  It was established in 1994, it has become the largest nonunion teacher association in the United States leads a coalition of 300,000 teachers in all fifty states.