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Johnson, Lincoln – Teaching Tolerance, 2010
In this article, part of the Why I Teach essay series, the author shares how he developed his love for teaching and the failures and successes he experienced as a teacher. He used to hate teachers but everything changed when he entered college. He took general education classes and began to notice the difference between the great teachers and the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Teaching (Occupation), Essays, Teacher Persistence
Block, Alan A. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2008
Though teaching yet has its advocates, more and more teachers are leaving the profession after only a few years in the school setting. The satisfactions of this impossibly complex and difficult profession are less and less obvious in this era of accountability and high stakes testing. Indeed, I suggest that the satisfactions often ascribed to the…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Faculty Mobility, Job Satisfaction, Teacher Role
Williams, Kevin – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2008
Concern has been expressed about the vulnerability of the "academic profession" as a consequence of threats from productivism, managerialism and the like (Beck and Young, Br J Sociol Educ 26(2):183-197, 2005). I question the apparent self-understanding of academe as a profession. Referring to thinking from higher education (Barnett, High Educ…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Self Concept, Professional Occupations
McEvoy, Kathleen – CEA Forum, 2009
Kathleen McEvoy describes her experience after achieving tenure at Washington & Jefferson College (Pennsylvania). She reflects on how she could have better prepared for her post-tenure academic existence and how the teaching profession could do a better job managing the earning of tenure. In retrospect she realizes that she may have been able…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Tenure, Teaching Experience, Personal Narratives
Burawoy, Michael – Rural Sociology, 2009
In his presidential address Jess Gilbert examines two democratic experiments of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) during the New Deal: first, county planning that coordinated federal programs through citizen committees, and second, land redistribution to landless southern farmers, including a small number of black sharecroppers…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Agriculture, Land Settlement, Relocation
Mills, Andrew – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
The job market on North American campuses may be heading for the deep freeze, but hundreds of positions are opening up in the Persian Gulf as American universities scramble to set down roots in those petrodollar-rich states. The combination of money and opportunity on offer may seem hard to resist. But academics who trade the rich intellectual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, International Schools, Foreign Workers
Zipp, Genevieve Pinto; Shah, Ashlesha – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2009
Purpose: Professional health science educational programs have utilized numerous learning strategies including journals, practice patterns, problem-based learning (PBL), case-studies, and hypothesis-oriented algorithm for clinicians (HOAC) (Shepard et al., 2002). While, these learning strategies have found a place in the health science educational…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Problem Based Learning, Patients, Clinics
Oswald, Lynda J. – Journal of Legal Studies Education, 2011
In this article, the author reflects on her continual journal in regard to improving her teaching skills. She opines that this journey is a story that could resonate with other colleagues to whom teaching is also critically important but to whom it does not come naturally. She describes lessons she learned in her early years of teaching, and she…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Law Related Education, Business Administration Education
Arnold, Lisa; Brady, Laura; Christensen, Maggie; Giordano, Joanne Baird; Hassel, Holly; Nagelhout, Ed; Singh-Corcoran, Nathalie; Staggers, Julie – College English, 2011
The forum contributors draw on their personal experiences and insights to put forth ideas about contingent faculty's relations with the profession of English studies in general. (Contains 3 notes.)
Descriptors: Higher Education, English Instruction, Writing Instruction, Teaching Conditions
Furlong, John – Oxford Review of Education, 2009
This article presents the author's response to Hall and Gunter who accuse the author of trying to mount "a stout defence" of New Labour's reforms of the teaching profession. Hall and Gunter go further and accuse the author of "triumphalism" in his use of the title "Tony Blair's big prize". Their second and more…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Reader Response, Educational Change, Evidence
Woods, Donald R. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2009
In this paper I'll share a personal overview of pedagogy in general. This will include a listing of my personal choices of the major events, from about 1950 onwards, that have had an impact on how I try to facilitate learning. The events occurred in Canada, the United States, UK and Australia. Some were publications; some were local,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies
Hall, Dave; Gunter, Helen M. – Oxford Review of Education, 2009
In the December 2008 special issue of the "Oxford Review of Education" John Furlong focused upon Tony Blair's modernisation of the teaching profession and associated attempts to harness teacher professionalism to a broader reform agenda. This article responds to Furlong's contribution through an examination of the evidence base used to…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Educational Change, Reader Response, Evidence
Alexander, Patricia A. – Learning and Instruction, 2008
This commentary to the special issue on teacher motivation began by considering certain educational truisms that were reinforced by the findings of the contributed articles. For instance, contributing authors strengthened commonly held perceptions that teaching is a challenging profession and that those challenges are both internal and external in…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Motivation, Teacher Attitudes, Literary Criticism
Myers, Donald A. – Action in Teacher Education, 2008
In this article the author responds briefly to the three authors who reviewed his manuscript. Furthermore, he states that the service model that he proposed was not a compromise or a lesser goal for teachers than professional status; it was a more accurate and uplifting goal. The teacher as a service professional could have widespread support…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Professional Recognition, Evidence, Opinions
Rothstein, Richard – Economic Policy Institute, 2010
Joel Klein, chancellor of the New York City public school system, and Michelle Rhee, who resigned October 13 as Washington, D.C. chancellor, published a "manifesto" in the "Washington Post" claiming that the difficulty of removing incompetent teachers "has left our school districts impotent and, worse, has robbed millions…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Politics of Education, Teacher Dismissal