Summary: Putting Professionalism Back Into Teaching
Putting Professionalism Back into Teaching: Secondary Pre-service and In-Service Teachers Engaging in Interdisciplinary Unit Planning
Stolle, Elizabeth Petroelje; Frambaugh-Kritzer, Charlotte (2014). Putting Professionalism Back into Teaching: Secondary Preservice and In-Service Teachers Engaging in Interdisciplinary Unit Planning. Action in Teacher Education, 61–75
Thesis Statement: The author posits the idea that professionalism is one of the most important factors in education which can be ensured by means of interdisciplinary unit planning that takes teachers out of their content silos and provides space to create curriculum relevant to adolescents'--acting as specialists, agents, and regulators of curriculum.
I. Thesis Statement: The …show more content…
III. Secondly, the author argues about the impact of interdisciplinary instruction will increase the professionalism of teachers.
A. Secondary pre-service and in-service teachers will grow out of their content silos and have space to create curriculum relevant to adolescents.
-- Interdisciplinary units offer a deeper concept-based curriculum that leads students to richer and more critical thinking
-- Interdisciplinary instruction is a win-win for students and teachers.
B. They interact with ideas/knowledge in social settings, as well as reconstruct ideas/knowledge in their own minds for their unique purposes
-- professional autonomy.
-- sense of agency.
IV. Finally, the author demonstrates how important it is to implement interdisciplinary instruction into the education system.
-- Teachers feel limited in their ability to implement interdisciplinary instruction but they are hopeful to implement these units in classrooms someday.
-- Interdisciplinary unit planning will provide a road map to teachers to generate unit plans that may be implemented in …show more content…
Teaching profession needs a knowledge base which is not stable and it needs to grow and improve constantly. With this in mind, Common Core Standards and the new curriculum will create an atmosphere that will help teachers to work in interdisciplinary units but the secondary pre-service and in-service teachers need support to apply interdisciplinary unit plan in their classes. Although interdisciplinary unit planning allows colleagues to work across a theme which creates a collaborative environment, there are some restrictions resulting from not being on time and the resources sometimes cause a lot of problems that people would rather avoid interdisciplinary instruction. Therefore, having an atmosphere with collaboration and dialogue will create an effective application of interdisciplinary instruction in schools and also creating opportunities with autonomous and agentic moments will help teachers to be more effective and comfortable with using interdisciplinary
Stolle, Elizabeth Petroelje; Frambaugh-Kritzer, Charlotte (2014). Putting Professionalism Back into Teaching: Secondary Preservice and In-Service Teachers Engaging in Interdisciplinary Unit Planning. Action in Teacher Education, 61–75
Thesis Statement: The author posits the idea that professionalism is one of the most important factors in education which can be ensured by means of interdisciplinary unit planning that takes teachers out of their content silos and provides space to create curriculum relevant to adolescents'--acting as specialists, agents, and regulators of curriculum.
I. Thesis Statement: The …show more content…
III. Secondly, the author argues about the impact of interdisciplinary instruction will increase the professionalism of teachers.
A. Secondary pre-service and in-service teachers will grow out of their content silos and have space to create curriculum relevant to adolescents.
-- Interdisciplinary units offer a deeper concept-based curriculum that leads students to richer and more critical thinking
-- Interdisciplinary instruction is a win-win for students and teachers.
B. They interact with ideas/knowledge in social settings, as well as reconstruct ideas/knowledge in their own minds for their unique purposes
-- professional autonomy.
-- sense of agency.
IV. Finally, the author demonstrates how important it is to implement interdisciplinary instruction into the education system.
-- Teachers feel limited in their ability to implement interdisciplinary instruction but they are hopeful to implement these units in classrooms someday.
-- Interdisciplinary unit planning will provide a road map to teachers to generate unit plans that may be implemented in …show more content…
Teaching profession needs a knowledge base which is not stable and it needs to grow and improve constantly. With this in mind, Common Core Standards and the new curriculum will create an atmosphere that will help teachers to work in interdisciplinary units but the secondary pre-service and in-service teachers need support to apply interdisciplinary unit plan in their classes. Although interdisciplinary unit planning allows colleagues to work across a theme which creates a collaborative environment, there are some restrictions resulting from not being on time and the resources sometimes cause a lot of problems that people would rather avoid interdisciplinary instruction. Therefore, having an atmosphere with collaboration and dialogue will create an effective application of interdisciplinary instruction in schools and also creating opportunities with autonomous and agentic moments will help teachers to be more effective and comfortable with using interdisciplinary