Week 1 CheckPoint : Teaching as a Professional Career

On a daily basis, teachers are employing several factors that help to define their chosen field as a professional career. Researchers have determined that professionals show specific characteristics. These characteristics include autonomy, ethical standards for conduct, a specialized body of knowledge, emphasis on decision-making, and reflection. Teachers meet these standards in multiple ways. To create a daily lesson plan a teacher must utilize at least three of these characteristics. Teachers demonstrate a specialized body of knowledge through knowledge of the content, knowledge of learners and learning, and pedagogical content knowledge including general pedagogical knowledge.