And because we know that from the moment our kids enter a school, the most important factor in their success -- other than their parents -- is the person standing in front of the classroom, the teacher.
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In the classroom, a teacher in this category "demonstrates minimal understanding of the subject, " according to the school system.
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In first grade, whenever someone made a mess in the classroom, the teacher would ask a student to get the janitor.
There were four days of scrutiny at report stage and the government won all divisions, including one on a Labour amendment which would have ensured that all teachers practising in the classroom have qualified teacher status.
As the shooting unfolded, the teacher in the classroom evacuated his students out of a back door.
There is a long history of schools using technologies to, in effect, sustain the chalkboard and prop up the 20th-century factory model classroom with the teacher in front of 20 to 30 students of the same age.
There was not a dry eye in the classroom that day, the teacher included.
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But she said that there was an element of creating a separate identity as a teacher in the classroom - a "professional persona" with a way of dressing, speaking and modelling forms of behaviour.
Scale that up to the number of hours they are in the classroom, and then compare it to the salary of a teacher.
And those years of schooling are not full years: local education officials report that in urban areas in the south an average teacher spends only 110 of the notional 200 days of the academic year actually in the classroom.
Will Mellor, aged 27, believes members of the armed forces like him can bring a unique set of skills to the classroom and hopes to become a teacher after six years in the Royal Marines, serving in Sierra Leone and in Afghanistan.
Race to the Top has helped drive states nationwide to pursue higher standards, improve teacher effectiveness, use data effectively in the classroom, and adopt new strategies to help struggling schools.
The substitute teacher who was in the classroom will not work for the city schools during the investigation, he said.
At a staffroom of a typical inner-London comprehensive school, teachers recently interviewed by The Economist agreed that the only way in which a young classroom teacher could afford to own property was to have a well-paid spouse or partner.
Who knew that I would one day look back with fond nostalgia to my elementary school days when the teacher blew a whistle in the classroom and we all practiced ducking and covering under our desks as a response to the coming nuclear war?
Now, as a teacher in my eighth year in the classroom, I consider every day that I go to work a privilege.
School boards and administrators, when they are punishing a teacher or coach for speech in the classroom, need to be more forthright with communities about how they came about their decision, and why they feel the punishment is sufficient.
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The Boston Arts Academy, where I have worked for the past eleven years, has provided me with countless opportunities to become an innovative teacher, leader, and thinker in the classroom.
"You're like a deer or elk in hunting season, " says Joe Tombari, a high-school teacher in Spokane, who sometimes locks the door of his classroom during off-periods and checks under his car before he gets near it.
Amanda Jones, Lauren's English teacher, plays host to the robot and its charging station in her classroom.
But as a teacher in Washington, DC, I can assure you, in the classroom, these reforms look devastating.
Chris Pitt moderated a panel on results-based education with Eric Nadelstern of Columbia University, Maureen Devlin, a classroom teacher in Wayland Public Schools, and Steve Hargadon, director of the Web 2.0 Labs.
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But if that realization is leading his team to shun "structural" reforms in favor of classroom-level changes only--merely reconstructing "the learning partnership between teacher and student" as their new materials put it--they're apt to end up disappointed once again.
Outside of the classroom my work in education has revolved around systemic transformational change, in the realm of teacher education and support.
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The teacher in the game can also ask them to retrieve things from around the classroom, so again when they focus, the objects in the game move from one place to the other.
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An English teacher whose emails are grammatically challenged may be a whiz at explaining Dickens in the classroom.
These organizations are taking advantage of the full range of innovations available, incorporating technology in curriculum planning and delivery, classroom management, teacher training and parent communication to create new models for providing excellent, affordable K-12 education.
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Peter Morris, a teacher from Bishop Gore Comprehensive School in Swansea, spoke of "pupils fighting in the classroom, throwing computer monitors around the room".
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State licensing laws mindlessly emphasize time spent -- usually years -- taking teacher-education courses, yet there is little correlation between certification requirements and effectiveness in the classroom.
"Freedom is not a handgun on the hip of every teacher and security should not mean a guard posted outside every classroom, " he said Wednesday in the State of the State address.
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