Quotes About Students

With classrooms like this one, people will call what is happening a behavioral issue," Hamre said. We were watching one of Stella's kids wiggling and squirming and contorting her face and altogether doing whatever she could to avoid her teacher. "But one of the things we find is that this sort of thing is more often an engagement problem than a behavioral problem. If the teacher is actually doing something interesting, these kids are quite capable of being engaged.

And for thousands of students, that initial disadvantage is the difference between going to college—and having a real shot at the middle class—and not.* "I mean, it's ridiculous," Dhuey says. "It's outlandish that our arbitrary choice of cutoff dates is causing these long-lasting effects, and no one seems to care about them.

They could let students learn with and compete against other students of the same maturity level. It would be a little bit more complicated administratively. But it wouldn't necessarily cost that much more money, and it would level the playing field for those who—through no fault of their own—have been dealt a big disadvantage by the educational system.

We're much better than chance at correctly identifying the students who are telling the truth. But we're much worse than chance at correctly identifying the students who are lying. We go through all those videos, and we guess—"true, true, true"—which means we get most of the truthful interviews right, and most of the liars wrong. We have a default to truth: our operating assumption is that the people we are dealing with are honest.

The most important thinganyone who is looking at a career, especially students, can do is toremember that strengthening and developing your employ-abilityis your personal responsibility.

A great teacher is one that helps their students to become great. In return, the students appreciate the teacher for their success.

In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

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.

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.

Teachers learn from their students' discussions

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher.

The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about what they teach, and who can communicate with kids.

It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?