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Overview 2.2 Major Specialized Professional Organizations for Teachers Organizations That Focus on Specific Subject Matter
Organizations That Focus on Students and General Education Issues
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American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
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American School Health Association
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American Montessori Society
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The Association for Career and Technical Education
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Association for Childhood Education International
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International Reading Association
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Association for Experiential Education
International Technology and Engineering Educators Association
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Association for Middle Level Education
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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
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Council for Exceptional Children
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Learning Disabilities Association of America
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National Association for the Education of Young Children
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National Association for Gifted Children
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Phi Delta Kappa
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Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages International Association
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Journalism Education Association
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Music Teachers National Association
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National Art Education Association
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National Business Education Association
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National Council for the Social Studies
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National Council of Teachers of English
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
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National Science Teachers Association
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Society of Health and Physical Educators
In addition to the NEA and AFT, several hundred other educational organizations exist.56 The US Department of Education provides an easily searchable database to find an organization that is likely to meet your needs at the Education Resource Organization Directory (EROD). In the following sections, we describe some of the basic types of organizations that could be helpful to a new teacher.
2-3c Specialized Professional Organizations At the working level of the classroom, the professional organization that best serves teachers (and education students) usually focuses on their major field. A subject-centered professional association provides a meeting ground for teachers who share similar interests. These professional organizations customarily provide regional and national meetings and professional journals that offer current teaching tips, enumerate current issues in the discipline, and summarize current research and its relationship to practice. The first column of Overview 2.2 lists fourteen major organizations that focus on specific subject matter. Other organizations, also national in scope, focus on the needs and rights of particular kinds of students, ensuring that these children and youth are served by wellprepared school personnel. Several such organizations are listed in the second column of Overview 2.2. These associations hold regional and national meetings and publish monthly or quarterly journals. Still another type of organization is the professional organization whose members cut across various subjects and student types, such as the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and Phi Delta Kappa (PDK), also listed in the second column of Overview 2.2. These organizations tend to highlight general innovative See Education Resource Organizations Directory (EROD—US Department of Education) at http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/Programs/EROD.
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