There are four primary dimensions in teacher professionalism which include the professional community, professional expertise, professional accountability and the profession’s ideal of service.
The professional community. Teachers most often work in institutions, and within those institutions in formal communities such as departments and informal communities such as club. They work in universities, colleges, and schools and are members of all kinds of associations and group.
Professional expertise. Teachers are concerned with knowledge, understanding or insight in two ways. They hand on a heritage of expertise and experience, frequently construed as the disciplined …show more content…
This not only takes away from creativity, but it can also quickly create teacher burnout. Standardized testing puts a lot of pressure on a teacher to get their students to perform. One of the main issues with standardized testing is that many authorities outside of education only look at the bottom line of the results. The truth is that the bottom line hardly ever tells the whole story. There is a lot more that should be looked at than just the overall score. Take the following scenario for example:
You have a two high school math teachers. One teaches in an affluent suburban school with lots of resources, and one teaches in an inner city school with minimal resources. The teacher in the suburban school has 95% of their students score proficient, and the teacher in the inner city school only has 55% of their students score proficient. It appears that the teacher in the suburban school is the more effective teacher if you are only comparing overall scores. However, a more in depth look at the data reveals that only 10% of students in the suburban school had significant growth while 70% of the students in the inner city school had significant