Teaching as a professional career.

Publication: Gifted Child Today

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Boles and Toen (2003, p. 1) describe teaching as a job, "not a profession or even a career" ("Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Teachers," Harvard Education Letter, 19[5], 1-3). They suggest that teaching does not meet these recognized criteria for a profession:

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