I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.
You have to have coaches willing to adapt.
Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy.
You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
They're my instructors, and every parent will understand that.
The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.
A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.
Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.
You can not be afraid when you get to this level to teach. I don't care what level you're at, if you don't teach, you're worthless.
My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.
Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
You have to have teachers who are empowered to facilitate great teaching.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence .
If you want to be able to teach, then you need to listen - a lot.
I think it's pretty well established that great schools are predicated on great faculty. That is not a Wisconsin market; that is a worldwide market.
I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.
I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.
You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with young people. It's the best fun in the world.
That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.
I was not a good teacher; I didn't have the sort of edge one should have on the students, so I decided to do something else.
We have found that the most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic.
I've come to realise that the best teachers never stop being teachers.
Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.
