Kaui Hart Hemmings Quotes

The teaching fellow establishes the atmosphere of a class in the first few meetings. I have found that students appreciate having the ground rules clearly defined from the start.

The year in school of a student is another factor that affects how an instructor interacts with his or her class.

A classroom setting for me was an audience.

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

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

I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

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.

If you have a class of 35 children, and they're all smiling, and there's one little bastard, and he's just staring at you as if to say 'Show me', then he's the one you think about going home on the train.

There's lots of bad things about teaching, but the really good thing is that you get to be around young people - irritating as they are.

To be clear, people are the most important part of any classroom. If given the choice between a great teacher and the world's most advanced education technology, I'd pick the teacher any day for my own children.

When I entered normal school, it was hard for me to adjust sometimes. I was so unused to just sitting down in a classroom and copying off the board - simple things.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

If the attitude of the teacher toward the material is positive, enthusiastic, committed and excited, the students get that. If the teacher is bored, students get that and they get bored, quickly, instinctively.

I love working with kids and helping others, so I feel like a career in teaching would be perfect.

I had a speech class in elementary school. And you know how teachers, when a kid is struggling to pronounce a word, used to lead him and say, 'Johnny, sounds like... ? Johnny, sounds like... ?' I said out loud, 'Sounds like Johnny can't read.' Teacher told me to leave the room.

I was always getting in trouble for whispering in class.

I miss the classroom and the bit I miss the most is the one-on-one personal interactions with the students, those moments when they surprise you with their insightfulness, or their cheekiness.

Teachers alone can't educate young people.

What we want is more learning in schools and less activism in schools.

You have to have teachers who are empowered to facilitate great teaching.

My fondest part of college was the interaction and everything I did with my fellow students.

I had really good relationship with my students; it definitely took me a few months before I had my students' respect.

I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it's hard to imagine that happening if they don't have some control over their attention.