...agriculture jobs but the one that people forget about is agriculture teachers. There are over 20,000 agriculture teachers just in the United States, and thats not even counting the ones that are also FFA advisors. (FFA.org) Although agriculture teachers have a very tight and demanding schedule that they have to work with throughout the year, they have a really exciting career because of the history of the job and what they do, the...
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...The three careers I chose for this case study are Public Relations Specialist, High School Teacher, and Project Coordinator. The reason for me choosing these specific careers was that I’ve held each one at some point in time. In this case study we will examine why each job has different salary ranges and why. Question #1 Doing this research I’ve come to find that out of the three jobs that I selected, a project coordinator is paid the most on average. The project coordinator is paid $89,509 a year on average. I was shocked to find out that out of the three careers chosen, that a public relations specialist is paid the least of all three. The public relations specialist on average is paid $45,931 a year. I expected that the project coordinator position would be the highest paid out of the three, however I did not expect for the teacher to be paid more ($53,447 a year on average) than the public relations specialist. I expected the teacher to be paid the least of all three. Usually teachers are thought to be paid the least when comparison to other professions. Some factors that could play a part in the difference could be number of days worked (teachers usually have a 9 month work year), levels of responsibility the job carries (project coordinators are generally in charge of seeing an operation through from beginning to end) whether or not the company is private or state funded (teachers are...
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...REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4670 June 18, 1966 THE MAGNA CARTA FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS I. DECLARATION OF POLICY COVERAGE Sec. 1. Declaration of Policy. It is hereby declared to be the policy of this Act to promote and improve the social and economic status of public school teachers, their living and working conditions, their terms of employment and career prospects in order that they may compare favorably with existing opportunities in other walks of life, attract and retain in the teaching profession more people with the proper qualifications, it being recognized that advance in education depends on the qualifications and ability of the teaching staff and that education is an essential factor in the economic growth of the nation as a productive investment of vital importance. Sec. 2. Title Definition. This Act shall be known as the "Magna Carta for Public School Teachers" and shall apply to all public school teachers except those in the professorial staff of state colleges and universities. As used in this Act, the term "teacher" shall mean all persons engaged in classroom teaching, in any level of instruction, on full-time basis, including guidance counselors, school librarians, industrial arts or vocational instructors, and all other persons performing supervisory and/or administrative functions in all schools, colleges and universities operated by the Government or its political subdivisions; but shall not include school nurses, school physicians, school dentists, and other school...
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...REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4670 June 18, 1966 THE MAGNA CARTA FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS I. DECLARATION OF POLICY COVERAGE Sec. 1. Declaration of Policy. It is hereby declared to be the policy of this Act to promote and improve the social and economic status of public school teachers, their living and working conditions, their terms of employment and career prospects in order that they may compare favorably with existing opportunities in other walks of life, attract and retain in the teaching profession more people with the proper qualifications, it being recognized that advance in education depends on the qualifications and ability of the teaching staff and that education is an essential factor in the economic growth of the nation as a productive investment of vital importance. Sec. 2. Title Definition. This Act shall be known as the "Magna Carta for Public School Teachers" and shall apply to all public school teachers except those in the professorial staff of state colleges and universities. As used in this Act, the term "teacher" shall mean all persons engaged in classroom teaching, in any level of instruction, on full-time basis, including guidance counselors, school librarians, industrial arts or vocational instructors, and all other persons performing supervisory and/or administrative functions in all schools, colleges and universities operated by the Government or its political subdivisions; but shall not include school nurses, school physicians, school dentists, and other school...
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...Americans and things of that nature. After quoting all of the supposed statistics he jumps right into saying that teachers get paid too little, letting the reader draw the conclusion that this is the sole cause of the above statistics. Then he moves on to say that our whole education system is crumbling as well as our society. Americans say that they care, yet sit back and watch the walls of the educational system fall. He then raves on about how kids today learn all they know from the T.V. and society and all the older generation blames the younger ones for ruining society. This in fact is the fault of the older generation for “showing” them that this is what they need to do to survive. Society tells us it is much better to be a basketball star, or take over a company and sell the assets than to be a mere kindergarten teacher (p455). All of these horrible events are a result of not paying teacher enough. We should now start paying the teachers as much as some of the “best young professionals” (p460). That is the only way to fix this downward spiraling problem. I do agree with the basic concept that education does not take quite have the priority in society that it should but this is pretty much the only thing I agree with. The main point I want to argue is about the pay or lack there of of teachers today. I agree that the thirty thousand that teachers make a year is not very much compared the today’s “young professionals” (p460) but you have to...
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...Do Teachers Deserve Better Pay Teachers do not just work from 8-3 with summers off, most arrive early, stay late, and take papers home to grade, while spending the summer preparing for the next school year. (Meador). For the longest time there has been a huge controversial topic on whether teachers deserve better pay or not. Something that needs to taken into consideration is that not all teachers are good teachers and the ones who have made an impact on students should be rewarded and recognized. At the end of the end the better teachers we have the better grades and happier students there will be. Teachers should be paid more because of the hard work they’ve put into leading the future leaders of the world as a career. We can not expect...
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...of performance payment, individual performance is usually reviewed regularly through a process called performance appraisal. Performance appraisal helps in establishing and identifying if the set objectives and standards are in line with the performance results. Generally, performance pay is usually rewarded on basis of performance results rather than on the time worked, (Council, 2011). Performance pay for teachers has been quite a subject of contention in many places and especially in the USA. Performance pay is meant to compensate teachers based on a set of performance standard and does not consider a teacher’s level of education or the level of experience gained. Hence, the more outstanding results a teacher produces from the students, the more the teacher is to be paid. Merit pay does not necessarily come in form of financial rewards but it can be take other forms such as promotions and public recognition, (Wragg, 2012). However there are various disputes on the effectiveness of merit pay such as how performance can be empirically measured and arguments such as performance pay may encourage unhealthy competition among teachers eventually leading to the narrowing...
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...through collective bargaining. One of the biggest union forces in the United States is the teachers union. With almost close to 5 million members nationwide, the teachers union is one of the most powerful unions. Through collective bargaining, problems have been created for the public school system which takes place at local school districts; rules have been imposed to create ineffective forms of organization at schools. The rules that are currently in place by collective bargaining are also creating a big disconnection with many public schools, that being the interest of the children. The teachers union is one main role players that is behind the organized education system of the United States. So, why are the public schools systems in the United States failing? The answer can be complicated a one, one of the reasons why the public school system is broken is due to the collective bargaining through the teachers union. Collective bargaining has made great impact on student achievement, as a result, the teacher unions have often used their political power to block or weaken major education reform efforts, efforts that would expand school choice for many students and parents. School districts that engage in collective bargaining only promote job interest for teachers. The collective bargaining with teachers union does not promote an effective way for students to succeed in the classroom. Teachers are the most important people in children’s lives, their role is significant when it comes...
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...Crowley writes, “. . .up to five percent of teachers are so bad they’re ‘doing damage to their students.’” He continues to write that teachers around the nation are repeatedly failing their basic certification tests. The simple fact that teachers are doing more harm than good for their students is astonishing. I feel as though the people doing the teaching should be proficient in their subject in order to accurately teach. Boards of education should not ignore the results of these teachers’ tests but rather make an effort to have better qualified staff. Teachers are meant to provide their students with valuable information that will be of use to them in the future. If there are teachers that are incapable of providing this service, then they should not be allowed to teach. In his article, Crowley also claims that the process of firing a teacher is more complex than would be imagined. He writes that it can take years to fire a teacher and also costs a lot...
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...Grant Sutter-Intro to Coaching- Jan 30, 2012 Should coaches at any level be paid more than teachers or professors? Under certain circumstances coaches should definitely get paid more than teachers. Coaches are there to influence the lives of their pupils just as much as teachers are, just in a different area of life. The coaches that do deserve to get paid more are the ones of high end sports that bring in large sums of money for their colleges. Coaches of National Championship caliber teams, in big time sports, in the NCAA deserve more than most, if not all professors at that school because of the large revenue their sport is bringing in. Why should anyone hire you as a coach? The main reason I should be hired as a coach is because I’ve mastered my sport, and I’ve been very successful in teaching my techniques to pupils of all ages. I’ve had experience with coaching kids from pre-k all the way up to seniors in high school, so my experience is there as well. I feel as if I’m a great role model as well, for young guys looking to accomplish some of the things I have accomplished myself. I’m also very well known to get along with the athletes I have coached. That’s something I feel is an extremely important quality a coach should have. What are your goals in the coaching profession? My goal as a coach is to affect the life of every single one of my athletes in one way or another. I also would like to take on the challenge of starting with a team that may be in the bottom...
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...Qualities of Teacher 1. Comment as to the: 1.1 Contents of the paper/, and 1.2 Similarities as to what you have experienced as a teacher or you expect to have the qualities cited and many more. Answer: 1.1 The content of the paper represents a thorough analysis, systematic understanding and a comprehensive representation of a good teacher. Teachers possess a strong power in their own capacity to direct the learners in becoming responsible citizens. Their communal hard work act as a driving power by which the goals and objectives of an educational scheme are being achieved. As such, teacher quality must be taken into account to make such goals reachable. As cited from the paper prepared by Dr. Rodolfo Yangco Baking, a former President of Tarlac State University and now a high-caliber professional lecturer of University of Makati, some qualities of a good teacher which he further explained were: enthusiastic, well prepared, maximize time, self-desciplined, humble, exemplary, use discipline wisely, treat everyone with equal respect, empathetic, avid readers, trust-worthy and trusting, committed and have spiritual foundation. In an unstructured consultation with some administrators as to teacher capability, they considered manner towards work as the most favorable characteristic. Teachers’ personality traits had the greatest influence in moral values development. The student respondents tagged being approachable and responsible among teacher traits as their...
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...SHOULD TEACHER PAY BE TIED TO STUDENT PERFORMANCE? Akkuzu, N. (2014). The Role of Different Types of Feedback in the Reciprocal Interaction of Teaching Performance and Self-efficacy Belief. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 39(3). Retrieved from http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ In this article, the purpose of this study was to explore the role of feedback based on self-efficacy belief sources in the reciprocal interaction of teaching performance and self-efficacy beliefs. A single case study design was employed to address and began to bridge the gap in our understanding of the relationship between feedback, self-efficacy belief and teaching performance. The data for this study were collected in the form of semi-structured interviews from 6 volunteer 5th-grade chemistry student teachers. The data was analyzed based on an inductive analytical approach. The results indicated that different types of feedback based on self-efficacy belief sources directly affected the student teachers' self-efficacy beliefs and teaching performance. It may be concluded that different types of feedback provided key paths for student teachers to better understand their own developing teaching performance and that of other teachers. I agree with Akkuzu’s with the role of different types of feedback in the reciprocal interaction of teaching performance and self-efficacy belief. Because, due to the data that was analyzed based on an inductive analytical approach...
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...and abilities that supply vast opportunities of which others may not have. A prime example of this would be Alex Rodriguez, who is considered one of the most talented and highly paid baseball players in the Major Leagues. Due to his talents on the baseball field, Alex Rodriguez is currently making 27.5 million dollars a year to play the sport he was born to play. The public views Alex Rodriguez as an idol for everyone who strives to be the best at what they do. As a college baseball player at Umass Boston I have seen some of the hardest working athletes imaginable, but for most of them being as successful as Alex Rodriguez is completely unreachable. Each and every one of us is born different with different talents and abilities, and the best we can do is maximize our potential. The only way to accomplish this is with hard work. Every person is created different and will have more potential at certain things, which is why I feel that money should solely be earned on the hard work they put into their career. This also includes the hard work endured in order to achieve this career and maximizing your potential. While we put Alex Rodriguez on a pedestal that resembles God, we forget the people who work each and every day to keep our society functioning correctly. Without the men and women who are teachers, we would have nobody to learn from. At this poi nt in the...
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...the most overpaid careers in the country. Baseball players make more than a teacher, and football players earn more than a doctor. These everyday jobs teach students and save people’s lives. However, they do not earn as much money as an athlete, who gets paid for playing a game. These professional athletes cause an unbalanced power in society. Today, professional athletes get a high salary for just playing a game. Baseball players in the Major League Baseball earn an average pay of $1.37 million per year. The average salary for a basketball player in the National Basketball Association is $2.2 million every year. However, a teacher only makes $38,000 annually. A doctor, who saves lives everyday, earns about $130,000 a year. These athletes are mainly for entertainment, but earn more than these important careers. Hockey players, in the National Hockey League earn a paycheck of about $892,000 each year. A National Football league player can earn about $795,000 every year. In the United States, a fireman averages about $40,000 annually; this is not even close to the amount a football player makes. Police officers average a paycheck of about $29,000, this seems very small when comparing it to the high paying salary of these professional athletes. Professional athletes earning this much money is negative because they are basically playing a game, which many people play everyday for free, however they get paid thousands and millions of dollars. Many people, such as firefighters...
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...Anthony Urbina March 23, 2015 PA 530 Should Public Employees be allowed to strike? Strikes are a movement by employees when they feel their labor is being unappreciated or there is a wrong doing with their pay and possibly retirement plan. This will cause employees to band together and strike. A strike is when employees refuse to do the work that their employer has asked of them. It is usually the last step in labor management negotiations and is something that both sides typically want to avoid. Since when employees go on a strike both sides lose out on something. Employees do not get paid and the employers do not get their productivity done. In history, public employees never had the right to strike and they never struck before the 1960’s. That is the movement that they began to fight for their rights as public employees and it caused a major movement for public employees to stand up for themselves and fight back against the union that was violating their rights as public employees. Until the late 1960s, public employee strikes were illegal in every jurisdiction in the U.S. Yet when the idea took hold and the context was right, hundreds of thousands of public workers struck anyway, violating state laws and court injunctions. And they generally won—achieving recognition and good contracts, and forcing lawmakers to amend state laws to permit public employee bargaining. - See more at: http://labornotes.org/2014/06/inspiration-look-history-public-worker-strikes#sthash...
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