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Chapter One Why Teach?


Reflection • The reflective practitioner thinks more thoroughly and more systematically about his or her experience. • Questions to stimulate your thinking:

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Motives for Teaching • Examine your motives for teaching: make a wellthought-out decision about what to do with your life. • Compare your motives to others’: other possible answers to the question “Why teach?”

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Reasons for Originally Becoming a Teacher

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Profession That Provides the Most Benefit to Society

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Extrinsic Rewards of Teaching • • • •

Salaries - improving Status - difficult to discern Power - unique power over students Work Schedule - “June, July and August”

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Intrinsic Rewards of Teaching • Students – one of the strongest rewards perceived by teachers • Performing a Significant Social Service – important work for the common good • Fellow Teachers – stimulation and support • The Work of Teaching – actual process highly gratifying

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VIDEO CASE: Teaching as a Profession: Collaboration with Colleagues

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Deciding to Be a Teacher: Sources of Useful Experience • Real encounters with children or adolescents • Vicarious experiences – film and television, fiction, memoirs about teachers • Guidance - advice from those who know you • Reflection - the most important source

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