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| For those who have not graduated from a traditional state-approved teacher education program. |
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| American Federation of Teachers (AFT) |
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| Is primarily concerned with improving educational conditions and protecting teaching rights. |
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| Teachers who show high levels of knowledge and commitment are awarded this through a competitive review process administered by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. |
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| A negotiating procedure between employer and employees for resolving disagreements on salaries, work schedules, and other conditions of employment. In collective bargaining, all teachers in a school system bargain as one group through chosen representatives. |
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| A salary system that periodically evaluates teacher performance and uses these evaluations in determining salary. |
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| National Board for Professional Teaching |
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| A professional organization charged with establishing voluntary standards for recognizing superior teachers as board certified. |
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| National Education Association (NEA) |
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| The largest organization of educators, is concerned with the overall improvement of education and of the conditions of educators. It is organized at the national, state, and local levels. |
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| A two-year teacher education institution popular in the nineteenth century, many of which were expanded to become today's state colleges and universities. |
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| A system of employment in which teachers, having served a probationary period, acquire an expectancy of continued employment. The majority of states have tenure laws. |
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