Chapter One. You, the teacher, as a person in society -- Chapter Two. The Teacher in the classroom and community -- Chapter Three. On becoming a global teacher -- Chapter Four. The Professionalization of teaching -- Chapter Five. Becoming a professional teacher.

This book is a humble response to the need for instructional materials in The Teaching Profession, a three-unit course of the new teacher education curriculum. It attempts to give the prospective professional teacher a comprehensive view of his/ her multifarious task to enable him/her make an informed decision on whether or not he/she pursues teaching as a profession or give it up for a more lucrative one.
That teaching does not attract the "best and the brightest" is a given. The prevalence of "those who can't, teach" mentality, is confirmed by the present "teacher over supply of mediocrity"", the high mortality rate in the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) annually for the past ten years (from sixty-five percent (65%) to seventy-five percent (75%), and the Congressional report on "continuously deteriorating quality of education in the country".