TASK LIST

* List the ways which teaching contributes to a democratic society.

* Describe factors that affect teacher supply.

* Cite up-to-date information about the U.S. school-age population.

* List and define the fringe benefits that often accompany teacher salaries.

* List job-hunting ideas that are useful in educational settings.

* Describe teacher incentive and career ladder programs.

* Elaborate patterns of organization for the two major national teacher unions.

* Describe the structure of the school and its operation in society.

* Analyze American family structure and its relationship to learning.

* Describe the school in terms of reproduction, readjustment, and reconstruction.

* Identify and discuss problems concerning youth suicide, dropout rates, delinquency, crime, and sexuality.

* Examine the problem of chemical dependency in youth.

* Describe Public Law 94-142 and its implications for individualizing programs for handicapped learners.

* Define the responsibility and duties of school board members, superintendents, assistant superintendents, and principals.

* Outline the major structures involved in federal, state, and local education.

* Outline the major questions of the three branches of philosophy (metaphysics, epistemology and axiology)

* Describe six educational philosophies: perennialism, essentialism, behaviorism, progressivism, reconstructionism,
existentialism.

* Discuss how an educational philosophy affects classroom management.

* Explain how education in the U.S. is funded.