Can Professional Certification for Teachers Reshape Teaching as a Career?.

Johnson, Susan Moore

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ERIC Number: EJ623046

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 2001

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Can Professional Certification for Teachers Reshape Teaching as a Career?

Johnson, Susan Moore

Phi Delta Kappan, v82 n5 p393-99 Jan 2001

For National Board certification to change teaching as a career, reformers must attend to accountability, monitoring, and quality-control concerns and demonstrate clearly how a staged career would attract and retain excellent teachers, revitalize pedagogy, strengthen instructional programs, and create more responsive schools. (Contains 44 references.) (MLH)

Descriptors: Career Ladders, Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives, School Organization, Standards, Teacher Certification, Teacher Shortage, Teaching (Occupation)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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IES Cited: ED453174