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Knight, Kenneth L. – Athletic Training Education Journal, 2008
This editorial describes the swinging pendulum of the role of clinical supervision in relation to the clinical skill development of students in athletic training programs. In the past, students working as interns were essentially assistant athletic trainers with little direct supervision, which resulted in decisions being made with less than…
Descriptors: Athletics, Allied Health Occupations Education, Skill Development, Clinical Experience
Geber, Beverly – Training, 1993
There are inherent problems when unskilled or semiskilled workers are retrained for high skilled jobs that do not and will not exist. Although the consensus is that smarter workers will make the nation more competitive in the world market, the occupation that will add the most jobs by the year 2005 is retail clerk. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Government Role, Labor Force Development, Labor Needs
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Null, Wesley – Journal of Teacher Education, 2009
In this essay, the author argues for a reconsideration of the teachers college tradition within teacher ed curriculum. The author draws upon history and moral philosophy to make the case that the teaching profession has declined because teacher educators have neglected the philosophical tradition that the author maintains is the key to our future.…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Educational Philosophy, Teacher Educators, Schools of Education
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Stevenson, Howard; Carter, Bob – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2009
Teachers in the English and Welsh State education system have experienced a changing and turbulent relationship with the State in recent decades. This article adopts a historical analysis and argues that the concept of "partnership" is key to understanding the relationship between teachers and the State in the period since the Second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government School Relationship, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Associations
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Mahon, Robert Lee – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2005
In this article, the author shares some tips for teachers. His tips are as follows: (1) a teacher should forget his or her education; (2) a teacher should forget the theory (3) a teacher should remember that he or she is a translator, not an originator; (4) a teacher should respect his or her students; (5) a teacher should be true to his or her…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation)
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Null, J. Wesley – Educational Forum, 2008
This essay challenges the conventional understanding of William Bagley and Arthur Bestor, which suggests that they held similar views in curriculum and teacher education. The author thinks this view is completely wrong and provides a radical new interpretation of Bagley and Bestor that uncovers a lost tradition within the field of education.…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Educational Philosophy, Curriculum, Teacher Education
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Mendoza, Charlotte – Action in Teacher Education, 2008
This response to Myers's concept of the teacher as a service professional considers each of his positions in analogy form. With support from the literature from education and elsewhere, the article maintains that teaching is a profession and that it matters greatly to teachers and society that it be strengthened as such. Examples are offered…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Role
Hopkins, Megan – Phi Delta Kappan, 2008
The quality of the teacher in the classroom is the most important factor in raising student achievement, as Linda Darling-Hammond noted, and educators should offer their students nothing less than well-trained and well-supported teachers. Providing high-quality teachers is of particular importance in low-income communities of color, where the most…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Low Income Groups, Teacher Qualifications, Outcomes of Education
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Truty, John D. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2007
Human resource development (HRD) professionals have an obligation to provide programs/products with the highest probability of success. The exclusion of workers' perspectives, from "their" standpoint, would seem to produce suboptimal results. Therefore, consulting workers' literature, labor and working class histories, management histories, and…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Working Class, Productivity
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Rossi, Joe – Educational Perspectives, 2007
This article presents an interview with Amy Lum Fern, Hawai'i Department of Education teacher from 1933 to 1972. Amy Lum Fern was born in Honolulu in 1909. She received her early education at Central Grammar School and later attended McKinley High School. After graduating from McKinley in 1928, she entered the University of Hawai'i, where she…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Interviews, Teachers, Certification
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Tsolidis, Georgina; Pollard, Vikki – Teaching Education, 2007
This paper draws on interviews undertaken with second year student teachers. They describe their motivations for wishing to enter the profession and imagine the type of teacher they wish to become. These student teachers express a desire to make a difference as strong motivation for wanting to enter the profession. This is not uncharacteristic.…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Motivation, Occupational Aspiration, Teaching (Occupation)
Jaffe, J. A., Ed.; And Others – 1982
This report is one of seven that identify major new and emerging technological advances expected to influence major vocational education program areas and to describe the programmatic implications in terms of skill-knowledge requirements, occupations most directly affected, and the anticipated diffusion rate. Chapter 1 considers technology as…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Databases, Diffusion (Communication)
Cohen, David K. – 1979
This paper presents a conceptual analysis of the nature of teaching and similar practices (including law, psychiatry, and social work), and examines how these differ from other practices. Chapter I defines practice; discusses common elements of practices (such as skills, knowledge and outputs); and describes teaching as an indeterminate practice…
Descriptors: Competence, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Interaction
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Selden, William K. – Journal of Allied Health, 1988
Enumerates observations that have served as the basis for encouraging continued improvement in educational and professional standards in the allied health professions. (JOW)
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Educational Improvement, Postsecondary Education
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Breines, Estelle B. – American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1988
The issue of occupational therapy's status as a profession has its roots in considerable gender divisiness evident in health care in the early 20th Century. Readdressing the issue means determining whether occupational therapists exhibit the characteristics of professionals and deciding which qualities and behaviors are important for them. (SK)
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Medical Education, Occupational Therapy, Professional Occupations
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