{"id":6541,"date":"2016-03-08T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2016-03-04T22:32:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T02:32:31","slug":"transforming-elevating-teaching-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/transforming-elevating-teaching-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"Transforming and Elevating the Teaching Profession"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"center<\/a>A recent report, written by the Center for American Progress, guides the reader through a teacher\u2019s career trajectory, beginning at recruitment and selection and continuing throughout his or her career in order to provide policymakers and the public with a forward-thinking document that proposes how to elevate and modernize the teaching profession. In this report, authors argue that elevating the teaching profession cannot be solved by one policy change; instead, changes must be made to every step of the teacher pipeline.<\/p>\n

Systemic change is critical for the future of the U.S. teacher workforce and the nation\u2019s students. No simple policy fix will be enough to move the system as a whole, especially since so many of the institutions responsible for educating, training, and setting policy for teachers operate in isolated silos that are often disconnected from teachers themselves. Rather, the nation must take a comprehensive approach to improve all parts of a teacher\u2019s career\u2014beginning with the selection of a college major and continuing through retirement.<\/p>\n

This far-reaching agenda will affect not just how teachers are recruited and trained but also the fundamental ways in which schools are organized. These changes can set in motion a virtuous cycle by which better training and working conditions enhance the experience of being a teacher, attract more people into the profession, and elevate the status of teachers overall, thereby improving the profession.<\/p>\n

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Each of the steps listed below must be made in conjunction with policy decisions and school restructuring:<\/p>\n