Estelle Morris Quotes

Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.

Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth.

I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

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.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

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.

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

Study after study affirms what I saw in the classroom every day as superintendent of Denver Public Schools: Nothing makes a bigger difference for student learning than great teaching.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

Feeling pummeled by the outside pounding of tests and standards, a teacher can easily hide and simply turn to the immediacy of the classroom. It is not surprising that many teachers burrow in their rooms with all that they know about their students. There is no place to take the information.

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.

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

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

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

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

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.