3.4: Professional Organizations (Joining a Larger Community)
Discussion Questions
Professional Organizations by Subject/Concentration Area
Suggested Activities
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Professional organizations are essential contributors in assisting educators in developing, building, and sustaining teachers’ professional learning networks.
Discussion Questions
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Professional organizations are important to ongoing professional development and growth. Teachers take advantage of conferences, meetings and opportunities to both mentor and be mentored through the professional organizations for their content areas and/or interest areas.
All professional organizations have web sites that assist in understanding their content, the activities and opportunities they provide to their members, and any publications that the organization may publish for its members. In addition, most professional organizations offer a student rate that can assist in building your resume and networking with like-minded educators. A list of national professional organizations adapted from Masters in Education (2019) appear below.
In addition to those on the national level, most states will also have professional organizations for various contents and grade levels. These are an excellent way to make contacts with other educators in your state.
3.1 Describe the process of becoming a teacher in New York State
3.1 Think – pair – share; outline, discuss and then create a potential timeline for completing your teacher certification process over the next four years.
3.1 In small groups discuss the aspects of the certification process which seem most easily accomplished and those that seem most difficult.
3.2 Create New York State TEACH account
3.3 Write a draft of the pre-service teacher resume
3.4 Identify professional organizations according to content and grade level specialties
1. Locate, research, and join either a local or national organization, preferably related to your content concentration or major that supports students, pre-service, and/or beginning teachers.