Is Teaching a Profession? For the last 50 years educators have devoted a great deal of energy to the debate over whether teaching can be considered a profession. Unfortunately‚ this turns out to have been the wrong question‚ and so led us to the wrong sort of answers. For example‚ there was a very heated debate in the 1960s and 1970s over whether teachers could organize strikes and still claim that they were members of a professional association‚ rather than a union. This controversy only makes
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What does it mean to be a Profession? Professions produce uniquely expert work‚ not routine or repetitive work. Medicine‚ theology‚ law‚ and the military are ―social trustee forms of professions. 1 Effectiveness‚ rather than pure efficiency‚ is the key to the work of professionals—the sick want a cure‚ the sinner wants absolution‚ the accused want exoneration‚ and the defenseless seek security. Professionals require years of study and practice before they are capable of expert work. Society is
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Accounting Professions Report In the field of accounting‚ there are three main professions that are highly in demand. The professions are 1) Chartered Accountants (CA) 2) Certified General Accountants (CGA) 3) Certified Management Accountants (CMA) Each of these professions requires special practice sessions‚ education‚ training‚ and loads of experience. Nationally and internationally these jobs are highly in demand for its standards and for its stature. Overall‚ this report will inform
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The Secret to Self-Discipline Rory Vaden ChangeThis | 96.01 Today’s work environment has been dubbed everything from the Age of Distraction and the Age of Inattention to The Multitasking Generation. The bottom line is this: regardless of your job title‚ we are all trying to accomplish increasingly more with increasingly less resources—whether those resources are money‚ time‚ focus‚ or energy. How can we achieve success—however you define it— given these constraints? ChangeThis | 96.01 I
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Article on Discipline Discipline is not only necessary but also vital for any civilized society‚ as a matter of fact‚ discipline and Nature are synonymous with each other and whenever anything happens‚ which defies or interrupts the usual in Nature‚ it becomes a calamity‚ and similarly life without discipline can become chaotic. The term ‘discipline’ means any training intended to develop moral character or produce a particular pattern of behavior accepted by afferent institutions and society
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Self-Discipline: Success in School Staying focused is always the hardest thing to do when there are so many distractions around: television‚ internet‚ cell phone‚ and food. I’m always curious to see what’s on television‚ or what the big topic on Facebook is. My cell phone is always buzzing from text messages and calls. Food is my biggest distraction; when i’m bored‚ I eat. I get up and check the fridge‚ then the pantry‚ and the fridge again. I always get distracted when I have homework or have
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Discipline is of the utmost importance in order to ensure the efficiency of the military organization as a whole as well that of the individual units. Efficiency helps to ensure that goals are met and that the highest level of profeesionalism is maintained at all times. The level of discipline directly affects a soldier’s conduct so the two concepts are directly related and of equal importance. Discipline is important in life as well as in the Army. The core values of the British Army are: courage
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Discuss the 5 disciplines of the “learning organization” and how it would influence change. The first discipline is “Shared vision” a common view of what the goal is‚ Second discipline is “Mental models”‚ the practice of self-awareness and its effect on the organization. Third is “Personal Mastery” being open‚ self-aware and reflective while changes occur. Fourth is “Team Learning” collaboration of ideas and fifth is “System thinking” seeing the organization as a machine and every moving part involved
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Blake Leyden Cristine Smith December 7‚ 2009 The Lords of Discipline A novel based on his own military experience at “The Citadel”‚ Pat Conroy’s The Lords of Discipline takes place at the South Carolina Military Institute (a fictitious military school). Like most military schools throughout the United States‚ “The Institute” prides itself on its ability to transform “douche bags” to “whole men”. The authoritative figures responsible for this transformation are the cadre (upper classman)‚ carriers
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INTRODUCTION: The word discipline is quite common and well known in terms of its daily use in our life. Any system or organization whether it is social‚ political or education is evaluated quite often in terms of its discipline. In the similar way when we try to evaluate a person‚ society or nation in terms of its goodness or badness‚ then also most often the criterion of such evaluation is nothing but the discipline. Schools are termed as good and bad‚ on the basis of the discipline or in disciplined
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