The practical fields have also organized into professional groups, with
increased role definition established by competencies to the point that the understanding of the ministry itself can be defined in terms of professionalism.
Alternatively, such work may intensify the demands placed on teachers, particularly given current conditions of the changing composition of classes, mainstreaming, reduced classroom support,
increased expectations for what schools should accomplish and a greatly expanded
definition of the teacher's
role in many educational jurisdictions.
The famous
definition of insanity — doing the same thing over and over again expecting to get a different result — applies to these efforts to
increase the presence and influence of half of the attorneys in this country who remain woefully underrepresented in leadership
roles.