Teaching is a true profession from my point of view. It seems obvious to me that teaching is a obligation to the children to help them learn.
Many teachers feel that their choice to become a teacher was a calling.
Second is an understanding of a scholarly or theoretical kind. Teachers gat a 4 year degree, that helps them understand what they will be doing in the classroom. Classes teacher future teachers how to present information to their students in way that advocate learning. Future teachers also get practice in the classroom, through student-teaching. Another characteristic is the exercise of judgment under conditions of unavoidable uncertainty.