The third characteristic is practice. Practice is the skills and strategies of the profession. It also deals with where the teaching takes place. Teachers need to always be evaluating themselves and seeing if their strategies are working. Teachers must make certain that they are teaching the material to students in a good learning environment.
Judgment is the fourth characteristic of a profession.
Teachers can not just take the knowledge they have gained and apply it to the field. They must also include human judgment. Judgment comes in between knowledge and application. Teachers must know how to use judgment to connect the knowledge they know and understand to the field of practice. Learning from experience is very important to teaching, and is also a characteristic of a profession.