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Teaching as a Profession

Cindy O'Mara, Instructor

The teaching as profession pathway offers students coursework that will enable them to provide a range of services from providing care to babies in daycare centers to teaching students in elementary, middle and high schools. Teachers must have a strong understanding of many content areas. They must be able to communicate, inspire confidence and motivate learners to do their best. Teachers are life-long learners -- they continue to take courses to keep up with changes and provide the best experience for their students. Sample occupations include teacher, principal and educational researcher.

Course 1: Examining the Teaching Profession

Examining the Teaching Profession prepares candidates for future positions in the field of education. Teaching Profession candidates study, apply, and practice the use of current technologies, effective teaching and learning strategies, the creation of aneffective learning environment, the creation of instructional opportunities for diverselearners and students with special needs, and plan instruction based on knowledge of subject matter, students, community, and curriculum performance standards. Candidates will be prepared to practice their skills and knowledge at a variety of elementary and secondary education sites.

Course 2: Contemporary Issues in Education

This course engages the candidate in observations, interactions, and analyses of critical and contemporary educational issues. The candidate will investigate issues influencing the social and political contexts of educational settings in Georgia and the United States and actively examines the teaching profession from multiple vantage points both within and outside of the school. Against this backdrop, the candidate will reflect on and interpret the meaning of education and schooling in a diverse culture and examine the moral and ethical responsibilities of teaching in a democracy. (Mastery of standards through project based learning, technical skills practice, and leadership development activities of the career and technical student organization Future Educators of America (FEA) will provide students with a competitive edge for either entry into the education global marketplace and/or the post-secondary institution of their choice to continue their education and training.)

Course 3: Teaching as a Profession Internship

The internship offers a candidate in the Teaching as a Profession career pathway a field experience under the direct supervision of a certified teacher (mentor teacher). The internship stresses observing, analyzing, and classifying activities of the mentor teacher and comparing personal traits with those of successful teachers. The candidate intern will develop a portfolio of their skills, plan and teach a lesson or lessons, understand and practice confidentiality as it pertains to the teaching profession, meet the needs of special education students, maintain the safety of the students and practice professionalism and ethical behavior.

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