Lauren Willig Quotes

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

Teachers know how to improve education.

I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

Teaching is like flying a plane. You leave school one day feeling like you're spiraling down toward the trees, expecting that the next day the crash will come. You brace yourself for the impact, only to find that things have leveled out at treetop height, and you climb and enjoy the remainder of the flight.

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching.

Teaching is not the work in which a man can live and grow.

My first summer in college, I interned for Arena Stage in D.C. and taught a disastrous class on standup comedy to middle schoolers at the Arena Stage camp. I had never taught anything before, and needless to say, I quickly lost control of the class.

When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.

Most teachers in America could dramatically improve their teaching if they just made every second count.

I don't envy my teachers. I used to preach to them.

I'm a high school teacher. I'm someone who stumbles my way through, leads with my chin in some cases, leads with my heart in all cases.