Bell Ringer – August 18th

• Do you consider teaching to be a profession? Why or Why not?

Agenda

•Bell Ringer / Attendance•Review from Monday and Tuesday•Finish discussing ‘Becoming a Teacher’ through lecture and notes

•Assign homework – Teacher Interview•Complete Exit Slip

Pep Talk

Classroom Procedures Quiz• Complete the quiz on Edmodo regarding our classroom

expectations.• You must achieve a score on a 100% (20/20) to complete the quiz. • If you do not score a 100, please raise your hand and I will reset the

quiz for you.• After you have completed the quiz, please get your assigned

textbook from the bookshelf and begin browsing through Chapter 1.

• Label your notebooks Pg. 1 – 50.• Pages 1 – 3 will be for the table of contents.• Pages 4 – 50 will be content.

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Chapter 1: Becoming a Teacher

Ms. Jayme Tracy

Interactive Notebook• Number the pages in your notebook from 1 – 50.

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Back of your

notebook cover.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Table of ContentsTopic Page #Pros and Cons of Becoming a Teacher 4Pros and Cons of Becoming a Teacher 5

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Pros Cons

Pros and Cons of Becoming a TeacherMy/Class Reasoning

Pros and Cons of Becoming a TeacherTeachers Reasoning

Pros Cons

Focus Questions

• What are the advantages and the disadvantages of being a teacher?

• What are the satisfactions—and the complaints—of today's teachers?

• Can we consider teaching to be a profession?• How has teacher preparation changed over the years?• Is teaching a “good fit” for me?

Statistics About Teaching• If teacher pay had risen in proportion to per-pupil spending since 1970, the average teacher would make

more than $120,000 today.

• The average starting salary for teachers in our country is $39,000; the average ending salary—after 25 years in the profession—is $67,000.

• In 1970 in New York City, a starting lawyer going into a prestigious firm and a starting teacher going into public education had a differential in their entry salary of about $2,000. Today, including salary and bonus, that starting lawyer makes $160,000, while starting teachers in New York make roughly $45,000.

• Teachers make 14 percent less than people in other professions that require similar levels of education. Teachers work an average of ten hours per day and 52 hours per week.

• 92.4 percent of teachers spent their own money on their students or classrooms during the 2007-2008 school year.

• 46 percent of teachers in public schools leave the profession within five years.

• 14 percent of teachers leave the profession each year; in urban districts, the turnover is higher: 20 percent.

Reasons Teachers Teach

Desire to work with young people

Value or significance of education to society

Interest in subject-matter field

Influence of teacher in elementary or secondary school

Influence of family

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%

71%

42%

39%

31%

19%

Pros and Cons of TeachingIn your Interactive Notebook (Pg 4.) create a graphic

organizer that organizes your thoughts on why you think people become teachers.

Be prepared to share out at your table and then to the class.Pros Cons

Summer’s Off Angry parentsHoliday Breaks – Periodic breaks

Money

Entertainment LeadershipWorking with kids Low payment Benefits (Retirement / Health) Commuting

Now Read….

• On pages 5 – 7 of your textbook read the pros and cons that the textbook has devised.

• In your Interactive Notebooks (on pg. 5), create a graphic organizer that illustrates the pros and cons that your textbook discusses.

• You may use a chart, venn diagram, outline, etc. YOU DECIDE!

Pgs. 5 – 7 ExamplePros Cons

Teachers get to work with others. Not forced to sit in a cubicle all day long.

No alone time. Even when you are having a bad day. You have to teach and be around others.

The joy of teaching a great lesson. Is anyone listening to me?

Teachers are respected. Measured by paycheck.Compliments teaching skills. Get bored. Teaching is art style. Ritual, Repetition, RoutineInfluence students Lack of opportunity – vulnerableSalaries are decent. Can earn extra money for coaching and attending professional developments.

Salaries are NOT where they need to be to be competitive with other college grads.

Average Starting Salary by StateState Avg. Starting 

Salary State Avg. Starting Salary State Avg. Starting 

Salary State Avg. Starting Salary State Avg. Starting 

Salary

Alabama $36,198 Georgia $33,664 Massachusetts $40,600 New Mexico $31,960 Texas $38,091

Alaska $44,166 Mississippi $31,184 Maryland $43,235 Nevada $35,358 Utah $33,081

Arkansas $32,691 Montana $27,274 Maine $31,835 New York $43,839 Virginia $37,848

Arizona $31,874 Hawaii $41,027 Michigan $35,901 Ohio $33,096 Vermont $35,541

California* $41,259 Iowa $33,226 Minnesota $34,505 Oklahoma $31,606 Washington $36,335

Colorado $32,126 Idaho $31,159 Missouri $30,064 Oregon $33,549 Wisconsin $33,546

Connecticut $42,924 Illinois $37,166 North Carolina $30,778 Pennsylvania $41,901 West Virginia $32,533

District of Columbia* $51,539 Indiana $34,696 North Dakota $32,019 Rhode Island $39,196 Wyoming $43,269

Delaware $39,338 Kansas $33,386 Nebraska $30,844 South Carolina $32,306

Federal Education Association

$45,751 Kentucky $35,166 New Hampshire $34,280 South Dakota $29,851

Florida $35,166 Louisiana $38,655 New Jersey $48,631 Tennessee $34,098

State Starting Salary

Average Salary State Starting 

SalaryAverage Salary State Starting 

SalaryAverage Salary State Starting 

SalaryAverage Salary

Alabama $36,201 $47,803 Indiana $33,574 $50,801 Nebraska $30,086 $47,368 South Carolina

$31,685 $47,050

Alaska $42,928 $62,918 Iowa $32,895 $49,844 Nevada $35,449 $53,023 South Dakota

$29,308 $39,850

Arizona $31,689 $47,553 Kansas $32,964 $46,598 New Hampshire

$33,871 $52,792 Tennessee $33,287 $45,891

Arkansas $32,478 $46,500 Kentucky $35,075 $50,428 New Jersey $48,101 $66,612 Texas $34,234 $48,638

California $41,131 $67,871 Louisiana $38,655 $49,006 New Mexico $32,092 $46,888 Utah $33,268 $47,033

Colorado $32,095 $49,228 Maine $31,580 $47,182 New York $44,370 $72,708 Vermont $34,709 $50,141

Connecticut $42,450 $69,165 Maryland $43,003 $63,960 North Carolina

$30,779 $46,605 Virginia $36,737 $48,761

Delaware $39,099 $57,934 Massachusetts

$40,462 $70,752 North Dakota

$31,065 $44,807 Washington $36,474 $52,926

Florida $35,236 $45,732 Michigan $34,724 $63,940 Ohio $33,035 $56,715 West Virginia

$32,435 $44,260

Georgia $33,673 $52,815 Minnesota $34,025 $53,680 Oklahoma $31,600 $44,343 Wisconsin $33,170 $54,195

Hawaii $38,479 $55,063 Mississippi $31,187 $41,975 Oregon $33,241 $56,503 Wyoming $43,053 $56,100

Idaho $29,915 $47,416 Missouri $29,857 $45,321 Pennsylvania

$41,192 $60,760

Illinois $36,636 $64,509 Montana $26,734 $47,132 Rhode Island

$39,006 $60,923

JCPS Teacher Salaries

What Do Kentucky Teachers Look Like?!?

Average Salary: $50,428

What Do Moore Teachers Look Like?

Teacher’s SalaryTeachers’ hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 months a year. It’s time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do – babysit. We can get that for less than minimum wage.That’s right. Let’s give them $3 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after school. That would be $19.50 a day (7:45 to 3:00 PM with 45 min. off for lunch and plan– that equals 6 1/2 hours).Each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children. Now how many students do they teach in a day…maybe 30? So that’s $19.50 x 30 = $585.00 a day.However, remember they only work 180 days a year. I am not going to pay them for any vacations.LET’S SEE…That’s $585 X 180= $105,300 per year. (Hold on. My calculator needs new batteries.)What about those special education teachers and the ones with master’s degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage ($7.75), and just to be fair, round it off to $8.00 an hour. That would be $8 X 6 1/2 hours X 30 children X 180 days = $280,800 per year.Wait a minute — there’s something wrong here. There sure is.The average teacher’s salary (nationwide) is $50,000. $50,000/180 days = $277.77/per day/30 students=$9.25/6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student– a very inexpensive baby-sitter and they even EDUCATE your kids!)

WHAT A DEAL!

Teacher’s Salary

•Are teachers over-paid/under-paid? Why?

•Discuss at your tables, be ready to share out as a class.

Is Teaching a Profession?

•What are some occupations that come to mind when you hear the word profession?

• Is teaching one of them? Why or Why Not?

•Share at your tables. Be ready to share out to the class.

What is a profession?

•Webster’s Dictionary: A paid profession, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification.

12 Criteria for a Profession

1. Provide essential services to the individual and society.

2. Concerned with an identified area of need or function.

3. Possesses a unique body of knowledge or skills.

4. Decisions are made in accordance with valid knowledge, principles, and theories.

5. Based on undergirding disciplines from which it builds its own applied knowledge and skills.

6. Professional associations control the actual work ad conditions of the profession.

7. There are performance standards for admission to and continuance in the profession.8. Preparation for and induction into the profession require a protracted preparation program.9. High level of public trust and confidence in the profession and in the skills and competence of its members. 10. Characterized by a strong service motivation and lifetime commitment to competence. 11. The profession itself determines individual competence.12. There is relative freedom from direct or public job supervision.

How the profession has evolved….

1. Will fill lamps, trim wicks and clean chimneys.2. Each morning teacher will bring bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the days session.3. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to the individual taste of the pupils.4. Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes or two evenings a week if they attend church regularly.5. After 10 hours in school the teachers may spend the remaining time reading the Bible or any other good book.6. Women teachers who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed.7. Every teacher should lay aside for each pay day a goodly sum of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years so that he will not become a burden on society.8. Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents pool or public halls, or gets shaved in a barber shop will give good reason to suspect his worth, intention, integrity and honesty.9. The teacher who performs his labor faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of $.25 per week in his pay providing the Board of Education approves.

1872

How the profession has evolved…1. You will not marry during the term of your contract.

2. You are not to keep company with men.

3. You must be home between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.

4. You may not loiter downtown in ice cream stores.

5. You may not travel beyond the city limits unless you have the permission of the chairman of the board.

6. You may not ride in a carriage or automobile. with any man unless he is your father or brother.

7. You may not smoke cigarettes.

8. You may not dress in bright colors.

9. You may under no circumstances dye your hair.

10. You must wear at least two petticoats.

11. Your dresses must not be any shorter than two inches above the ankle.

12. To keep the school room neat and clean, you must: sweep the floor at least once daily, scrub the floor at least once a week with hot soapy water, clean the blackboards at least once a day and start the fire at 7 a.m. so the room will be warm by

1915

How the profession has evolved….

•The 1980’s marked the beginning of the modern effort to reform education.

•The Holmes Group and the Carnegie Forum called for higher standards and increased professionalism in teachers.

How the profession has evolved….

• In the 1990’s the Carnegie Forum was influential in creating the National Boards for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS).

•To demonstrate expertise to the NBTPS, teachers must complete a series of performance-based assessments. • 3% of teachers are Nationally Board Certified.

Nationally Board Certified Teachers

•Read the excerpt “What Teachers Should Know and Be Able to Do” on page 14.

•Be prepared to discuss your thoughts on this passage (Do you agree? Do you disagree? Why) with your table and then as a class.

How the profession has evolved….

•Kentucky’s Teaching Standards•http://coe.eku.edu/courses/EDF-103/presentations/KentuckyTeachingStandards.htm

2014

So, how are teachers prepared today?

•There is no consensus on how best to prepare teachers.•Traditional Programs•Alternative Programs•Professional Experience

How Prepared are Kentucky’s Teachers?

Nationally Board Certified Teachers: 2,434 (5.6% of teachers)

Total # of Teachers: 42,943

How Prepared are Moore’s Teachers?

Nationally Board Certified Teachers: 1

Total # of Teachers: 114

Homework:

•Interview a teacher of your choice and ask questions regarding his/her teacher preparation program.

Exit Slip

•Write down three things stuck with you from the past few days.

•Be sure to include your name and assignment number.