Teacher Quotes - Page 209

You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to where the neighborhoods change.

Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside.

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.

I signed up with Kundalini yoga teacher training, which has been shifting me in some really beautiful ways.

The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.

The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.

The teacher has more power than the Minister.

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.

We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest more in the change capacities of local districts and communities, and to pursue prudent rather than profligate approaches to testing.

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.

We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.

In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers.

Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.

We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning.

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.