They are also required to complete one of the following: an approved district - based program for the Professional license; a master's degree; programs leading to eligibility for
master teacher status, such as those sponsored by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; or a department - sponsored assessment program, if available.
We will ensure that every teacher is qualified or working towards qualified teacher status and introduce a new
master teacher status to raise the standing of the profession.
Not exact matches
A number of significant factors are well established: teaching is a high
status profession in Finland; all
teachers have a
Masters degree; education is well funded by the state and free to all; school retention rates are high; and the country whose economic revival was led by companies such as Nokia had become a world leader in high level information technology applications, including in education.
Teaching would gain some of the accoutrements of a profession, such as career ladders that enable
teachers to gain in
status and pay without leaving the classroom;
master teachers would design training programs and supervise novices.
Singapore has created a track for
master teachers that provides comparable pay and
status to those who leave the classroom and opt for administrative leadership positions.
• Enhance the
status of teaching by: giving all
teachers, especially those at the beginning of their careers, an entitlement to (and expectation to utilise) CPD, and taking steps towards teaching becoming an all
Master's qualified profession; and subsidise membership of professional bodies and subject associations for
teachers early in their career to ensure they have access to professional learning.
If we look at Finland where teaching is a much higher
status profession, this is likely contributed to by the fact all
teachers hold
Masters degrees.
Meanwhile the use of student test data in evaluations would only be required for those
teachers who are seeking a
master instructor
status.
These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high
status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based
teacher education programs that confer
Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among
teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.
It was unclear Tuesday what the incentive will be for
teachers to earn the «
master teacher»
status, aside from being identified as the very best.
These include raising the standards for admission to
teacher education programs, much more rigorous programs of education in the subjects to be taught and much better training for the craft of teaching, the development of sound analogues to the teaching hospital, much more support for new
teachers through apprenticeships with
master teachers, creation of real career ladders, compensation that is comparable to that in the high
status professions.
Funded time would be given to write a dissertation exploring this area of interest (this could contribute towards
Master's qualification or Chartered
Teacher Status) and thus feed back into the system research carried out by a practising teacher based on real - life examples which support their hypo
Teacher Status) and thus feed back into the system research carried out by a practising
teacher based on real - life examples which support their hypo
teacher based on real - life examples which support their hypotheses.
After all, there are few areas that are really «denied» to men, if the level of operations demanded be transcendent, responsible or rewarding enough: men who have a need for «feminine» involvement with babies or children gain
status as pediatricians or child psychologists, with a nurse (female) to do the more routine work; those who feel the urge for kitchen creativity may gain fame as
master chefs; and, of course, men who yearn to fulfill themselves through what are often termed «feminine» artistic interests can find themselves as painters or sculptors, rather than as volunteer museum aides or part time ceramists, as their female counterparts so often end up doing; as far as scholarship is concerned, how many men would be willing to change their jobs as
teachers and researchers for those of unpaid, part - time research assistants and typists as well as full - time nannies and domestic workers?