AboutPatricia Ireland-Williams Expertise I am a retired K-12 Public School Principal (8 years as a teacher and counselor) and 23 years as an administrator. I can help parents with questions about how the system works, provide ideas on how to solve school issues or assist teachers in coping with the plethera of stressors they face.
Experience I am currently an educational consultant and have served on the State of Arizona Solutions Team.
kl writes on 2008-03-15 16:35:36
Most teachers (if we are talking about pre-collegiate instructors) are NOT highly educated. They have a Bachelor's degree (Master's at most), and the standards for teaching are anything but rigorous compared with other defined professions (Medicine, Law, Pharmacy, Engineering, etc...). Further, the pay is lower than most professions, suggesting that something is not equilibrate. Thus, I would suggest that, given the definition and examples of profession, teachers fall short insomuch as their education and standards do not reach the level set by other professionals.
Perhaps administrators could be considered professionals, but the fact that teachers do NOT need an advanced degree coupled with the low passing mark on an already simplistic test for standardization leads the informed to classify teaching as a quasi-profession.
Oh, and the proper spelling is "definitely," so I hope you are not a teacher, Patricia.
