Exam 18: Professional and Cultural Dimensions of Teaching

In Beare, Caldwell and Millikan's (1991) explanation of school culture, one of the aesthetic aspects of school culture is:

Within the context of findings about the lifecycle phases through which teachers pass, the ability to mentor younger teachers has been found to be most typical of teachers in the:

What are the responsibilities of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) established in 2010?

A characteristic of a profession that is common to the three lists identified by Stinnett & Hoggett (1963), Purvis (1973) and Travers and Reboric (1990) is that members:

Standard 6 of the AITSL standards for teachers, 'Engage in Professional learning', does not include:

Is the following statement True or False? 'Women hold a disproportionate percentage of the principalships in Australian schools.'

In Australia, the highest proportion of teachers are in their middle to late:

In Beare, Caldwell and Millikan's (1991) framework for analysing school culture, a visual/material manifestation is:

How do you respond to the perception by some that teaching is a 'skilled trade' rather than a profession? Draw on insights from the theorists in Chapter 18 to present an argument for and against the idea of teaching being a profession.

According to Ingersoll and Strong (2011) one main factor behind the high turnover of beginning teachers is:

A study by Carrington, Tymms and Merrell (2008) of 11 year olds in which male teachers were matched with classes of boys and female teachers were matched with classes of girls found:

One of the sources of teacher satisfaction in Australia has been found to be:

What is your understanding of what comprises a school's culture? Use at least six of the 'manifestations' of school culture from Beare, Caldwell and Millikan's 'Framework for analysing school culture' (shown in Figure 18.3) to describe features of a school culture which you would find supportive as a beginning teacher.

How did Marginson (1993) define the term 'professional development' and what, according to Ingvarson (2002), are the principles that should underpin it?

The use of the term 'profession' originated in Europe in the:

What is meant by the term 'transformational leadership' and how does it relate to school culture?

According to researchers such as Orlich et al. (2009) one of the greatest challenges facing teachers in the 21st century is:

According to Webb et al. (2004), a country where teacher professionalism is associated with a drive to raise standards and 'commercialised professionalism' is:

In reference to the relationship between the Commonwealth and the states in the management of education, 'hard policy' refers to Commonwealth policy requirements:

In his findings about teaching in the 1960s Lortie (1975) found that teaching was 'relatively career-less', that teachers' satisfaction came from 'psychic rewards' and that teachers have 'endemic uncertainties'. Write a sentence for each of these findings explaining what Lortie meant and indicate whether you think each finding is still relevant to the 21st century and why.