7.2 Professional organizations ACTIVITIES:
Professional Growth:
Promoting conferences, workshops, and meetings
Public Relations:
Furnishing data to citizens groups, preparing radio and TV programs, motion pictures and the like
Defending the Teaching Profession:
Making investigations of situations where teachers are unjustly accused and trying to correct such situations
Research:
Carrying on pertinent research studies and answering questions from members where objective data are desired
Professional Standards:
Through staff members, committees and other means working for higher standards for all aspects of teaching, especially trying to secure an adequate supply of good teachers
Teacher Welfare:
Working for higher teacher's salaries and improved retirement systems
Federal Relations:
Attempting to secure desirable new educational legislation and preventing the passage of undesirable types.
Curriculum and structional Development:
Trying to encourage continuous study of curricula and better teaching methods
International Education:
Co-operating with other agencies in support. of the United Nations, UNESCO and the WCOTP
Selective Teacher Recruitment:
Through FTA and many other agencies trying to secure adequate supply of properly qualified young people to prepare for teaching
Publications:
Publishing professional journals, yearbooks, books, research abstracts, and the like. The NEA Journal is the official organ of the Associations