Describe how teaching may change in the future.

Teaching and the conditions under which teachers work may change in some fundamental and positive ways during the next two decades. Teaching will become increasingly professionalized, for example, through such changes as more lengthy and rigorous preprofessional training programs, salary increases that put teaching on a par with other professions requiring similar education, and greater teacher autonomy, and an expanded role for teachers in educational policy making. There will be more teachers from minority groups, greater recognition for high performing teachers, and teachers will achieve new and higher levels of specialization. (Pages 323-326)