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Changing Roles
No Child Left Behind
Rewards of Teaching
Working Conditions
Teacher Turnover
100
This institution was designed primarily to train teachers for the elementary grades.
What is a normal school?
100
The degree(s) that a "highly qualified teacher" needs.
What is a bachelor's and/or a master's degree?
100
One answer to "why do college students pursue teaching careers?".
What is teachers find their greatest reward in interacting with students?
100
A teacher's average work hours.
What is 45 hours?
100
The teachers who are most likely to leave teaching.
Who are teachers who teach in high poverty schools?
200
They are referred to as the "Guardians of Morality".
Who are Female Teachers?
200
Three major subjects that a new elementary school teacher must demonstrate mastery.
What are reading and language arts, writing, and mathematics?
200
Estimated number of decisions teachers make in an hour in their classrooms.
What is 200?
200
The name of the teacher that Theodore Sizer describes.
Who is Horace Smith?
200
7.8%
What is percent of teachers that transfer?
300
Licensed primarily on examination and not number of education courses take.
Who are 19th century teachers?
300
Hired before this school year to be considered a veteran teacher.
What is the 2002-2003 school year?
300
Average national salaries of teachers in 2010.
What is $49,305?
300
Pupil to counselor ratio.
What is 319 to 1?
300
9%
What is percentage of teachers who leave the profession?
400
The era teachers were asked to promote 100% Americanism.
What is the 1920s-1950s?
400
Their "third annual report" states standards for determining highly qualified teachers.
Who is the Secretary of Education?
400
Continues to drive down the average wages of state employees.
What is the recession?
400
Names of the authors who analyze the lives of teachers.
Who are Sizer and Boyer?
400
21.1%
What is the percent of turnover in high poverty schools?
500
Pushing the certification of teachers to new levels of control and hierarchy.
What is no child left behind?
500
High, objective, uniform state standard of evaluation.
What is HOUSSE?
500
Provides securities not often found in other jobs.
What are teacher tenure laws?
500
Job security and extended vacation are considered.
What is compensation for poor working conditions?
500
14.2%
What is the percent of turnover that is low poverty?