Your friend Susan found her first year of teaching to be very traumatic. She had great difficulty adjusting to the real world of school, and she felt overwhelmed by how much she had to learn and to handle. Which of the following might have helped her most in avoiding such negative experiences during her initial year of teaching?
a. more pedagogy (methods) courses in her teacher preparation program
b. a fifth-year preparation program
c. a mediated entry program
d. periodic, one-day, in-service training workshops
Question 2
Which of the following presents the greatest obstacle to teachers' gaining the kind of autonomy suggested by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards?
a. Teachers do not receive training in organizing and running their own professional organizations.
b. Most teachers are not interested in gaining more autonomy in their work.
c. Because education is a public enterprise and a public responsibility, citizens and their elected officials will be slow to turn control over to teachers.
d. The teaching population in the United States is too large and too varied to govern its own professional affairs.
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