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The status of teaching as a profession Marril, 2015, 2nd A students: …

- - - - Induction programs for practiotioners are designed to augment this basic level of knowledge and skills
        
        Objective: familiarize them with the concrete realities of their job
        
        Procedure: to increase the efficacy and retention is better assist them in coping with the practialicities of teaching
        
        Result: positive effects in beginners', retention and on their students' academic achievement
    - - Professionals must continually update their skills, so they typically belong to organizations or associations, which provide support for employee development
        
        Most schools and teachers participate in workshops, activities, conferences and publications
    - - Possess a specific body of knowledge and skill
        
        The teacher specialization is a step backward for education because it doesn't adress the needs of ''the whole child''
        
        The source of out-of-field teaching lies in a lack of fit between teachers' fields of preparation and their teaching assignments (low professionalization)
    - - Professionals have a large degree of self-governance
        
        Distribution of power and control in schools
        
        Decentralized schools in which teachers have too much workplace autonomy and discretion
        
        Centralized schools in which teachers have too little influence over school operations
        
        The control can be done through professionals organizations or in the workplaces
    - - Professionals are well compensated and provided with high salary and benefit levels
        
        Average annual salaries of teachers are far below than the professional ones' salary
        
        Teacher salary level are often standarized according to a uniform salary schedule, based on the education level and years of experience
    - - Professions are high-status, high-prestige occupations
        
        The traditional professions are very prestigious, and teaching is on the middle
        
        Secondary teachers are slightly higher status than elementary teachers
    - - Professions need more complexity and requires a license, which implies a process of training and examinations
      - Two points of view
        
        To improve teaching quality, entry into teaching should be more highly restricted
        
        Entry into teaching should be eased. This could desprofessionalizate teaching