Chapter 2

Question 1

Profession

Answer 1

An exclusive occupational group that applies abstract knowledge and specialized skills particular cases

Question 2

Professionalism

Answer 2

Accepting responsibility for developing and growing one’s expertise

Question 3

Apprenticeship of observation

Answer 3

The phenomenon were late persons who have spent thousands of hour at school, children, watching and judging teachers in practice, develop many false ideas about teaching and mistakenly considering themselves experts

Question 4

Pedagogy

Answer 4

The method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept

Question 5

Charlotte Danielson’s framework

Answer 5

Validated as a means for teachers to improve their teaching practice and ways that can increase measured student achievement

Question 6

Reciprocity

Answer 6

An agreement between states to accept each other’s teaching credentials

Question 7

Prestige

Answer 7

The level of social respect or standing a job has

Question 8

The position are standing in society, that confers certain benefits and privileges

Answer 8

Status

Question 9

The self perception of rank or prestige that emphasizes personal achieve

Answer 9

Subjective status

Question 10

Professionalization

Answer 10

An occupations qualities usually enhanced by increasing training or raising required qualifications

Question 11

Defined benefit (DB) plans

Answer 11

Special annual retirement benefit based on a formula, generally considered final average salaries and years of service 

Question 12

A _____ is an example of teacher autonomy

Answer 12

English teacher selecting the literature they will teach

Question 13

True or false | US teachers certification requirements are the same from state to state

Answer 13

False

Question 14

Which of the following describes how individuals arrive at ideas about the teaching profession based on their own experiences as students

Answer 14

Apprenticeship of observation

Question 15

Which action has greatly improved teacher status over the past century

Answer 15

 education level

Question 16

True or false | teacher salaries have buying large, kept up with inflation and wages for other occupations requiring a college degree in the United States

Answer 16

False

Question 17

A system of employment compensation, that links salary to measures of work, quality or goals

Answer 17

Performance pay or merit pay

Question 18

Salary incentive programs that give teachers extra compensation for acquiring new knowledge and practices

Answer 18

Knowledge and skill based pay

Question 19

The practice of paying effective teachers more than their colleagues with similar years of experienced if they agree to teach hard to staff subjects or work in hard to staff school

Answer 19

Differentiated salary schedules

Question 20

Multiple roots to new rules and responsibilities that best fit their career interest and goals

Answer 20

Career pathways

Question 21

Providing release time or a part-time classroom schedule that supports teacher and instructional leadership activities during the school day

Answer 21

Hybrid rolls

Question 22

True or false | a teacher that is new to the field is less effective than an experience teacher

Answer 22

False

Question 23

Which of the following teacher openings would school districts generally be willing to pay a higher teacher salary for

Answer 23

Math teacher

Question 24

What is the relationship between teacher performance pay and student achievement

Answer 24

Research shows the performance pay incentives, have no major implications on student achievement

Question 25

The series of courses in field experiences that educate individuals to become teachers

Answer 25

Teacher preparation

Question 26

Career preparation pathways that typically allow candidates to begin teaching while working on teach program coursework and requirements

Answer 26

Alternate teacher routes

Question 27

Which is an example of an alternative teacher route

Answer 27

An accelerated degree program in which students teach while completing coursework

Question 28

More than 42% of teachers leave the profession after teaching for _____ years

Answer 28

Five

Question 29

True or false | teacher preparation programs must be federally approved

Answer 29

False

Question 30

How do new teachers become licensed?

Answer 30

Formal academic training Completion of an accredited teacher preparation program Statewide assessments and testing Additional checking

Question 31

True or false | teacher, certification, and teacher licensure means the same thing

Answer 31

True

Question 32

Which is an example of Practica

Answer 32

School observations

Question 33

A course of study designed, especially to prepare teachers

Answer 33

Practica

Question 34

A group of employees who come together voluntarily with the shared goal of improving their working conditions

Answer 34

A union

Question 35

A formal process that gives union members a voice and decisions that affect its members compensation and work lives

Answer 35

Collective bargaining

Question 36

Strikes

Answer 36

When employees stop working in support of demands made on their employer

Question 37

What should be considered before striking?

Answer 37

Personally and professional ethics Employment Colleagues Students Administration

Question 38

It means of self policing and quality control

Answer 38

Accreditation

Question 39

InTASC (interstate assessment and support consortium)

Answer 39

A group of state, educated agencies in national educational organizations, dedicated to reforming teacher preparation, licensing, and ongoing professional development

Question 40

NBPTS (National board for professional teaching standards)

Answer 40

A voluntary system to provide a national advanced teaching credentials for most pre-K through 12 teachers

Question 41

Which is an example of a common outcome of a strike?

Answer 41

Increase teacher salaries in classroom resources

Question 42

True or false | teacher union participation has remained steady among teachers over the years

Answer 42

False

Question 43

Which of the following is the most likely caused for a teacher strike?

Answer 43

Low pay

Question 44

True or false | the American Federation of teachers is the largest professional organization in US labor union

Answer 44

False

Question 45

The set of beliefs, values assumptions in relationships that educators and staff share about teaching and learning

Answer 45

Professional culture

Question 46

A comprehensive coherent and sustain professional development process that the school district organizes to train support and retain new teachers

Answer 46

Induction

Question 47

A specific type of induction program consisting of a collegial supportive relationship developed between a veteran and a new teacher to ease the transition into the realities of daily classroom teaching

Answer 47

Mentoring

Question 48

True or false | Mentoring is a specific type of induction aim to assist early career professionals

Answer 48

True

Question 49

____ refers to beliefs, values expectations in relationships that educators and staff share about teaching and learning that influence how a school functions

Answer 49

Professional culture