#teacher

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. ↗

— John Sculley

#abuse #children #educate #expect #failings

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more. ↗

— Jon Secada

#college #community #community college #cut #dying

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools. ↗

— David Selby

#environment #good #good teachers #involvement #provide

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#community #difference #just #know #makes

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#conclude #fact #good #in fact #in other words

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#case #did #expectations #first #had

In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#evaluated #get #go #in other words #into

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#great #recipe #teacher #them #unique

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#concepts #engage #episodes #heard #many

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher. ↗

— John Strachan

#asset #end #greatest #greatest asset #personality