Example sentences of "teacher ' [noun] " in BNC.

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1 While they build schools or refurbish classrooms in one place , they are cutting teachers ' posts in another , despite evident need .
2 more frequent and better use of expressions of appreciation contingent upon teachers ' efforts and achievements ;
3 ‘ These ratings should be a shining beacon to the Government to support research and cease their rob Peter to pay Paul policies , ’ said an Association of University Teachers ' spokesman .
4 … a golden age of pupil behaviour when children attended with regularity and did their teachers ' bidding without question … may have existed .
5 … neglect of the occupational culture of teachers … has led us to underestimate the significance of the teachers ' culture as a medium through which many innovations and reforms must pass ; yet in that passage they frequently become shaped , transformed or resisted in ways that were unintended and unanticipated .
6 Sometimes this may be unfortunate pupils who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ; but often it is the teachers ' families who begin to bear the brunt , and whose reserves of tolerance and goodwill may also , after a while , begin to dry up in turn .
7 IT is unfortunate that NASUWT , the career teachers ' organisation , should be banging on about quality in education in a leaflet just issued .
8 Valerie Way had been on a teachers ' course concerned with gender and the curriculum and described what happened when she returned to school .
9 When the academies opened their doors to women in 1919 the association changed its curriculum to offer preparatory courses , the drawing teachers ' course was closed and for a while they placed emphasis on the trade-oriented forms , like book-binding which was also started later at the state school .
10 The structure of primary education in Britain is implicitly racist — in the books used , the curriculum , the teachers ' attitudes .
11 It is crucial that teachers ' attitudes to poetry communicate enthusiasm for it .
12 A recent large-scale study of special needs provision in junior schools suggests that while teachers ' attitudes to low-achieving children are broadly positive , they are pessimistic about the ability of such children to derive much benefit from increased special needs provision ( Croll and Moses , 1985 ) .
13 Despite some evidence of change in teachers ' attitudes and behaviour , they themselves were reluctant to admit that the project had influenced them .
14 A national survey of teachers ' attitudes to equal opportunities found that men were more likely to be opposed to promoting equal opportunities than women , but that differences in subject taught were more important than the sex of the teacher in determining his or her attitude .
15 Spear also found in a study of teachers ' attitudes to girls and technology that the most sex-differentiated replies came from science teachers ( Spear in this volume ) .
16 Alison Kelly worked with some of her students to carry out a minor evaluation of changes in GIST teachers ' attitudes in comparison with a national sample ( Kelly et al . ,
17 In the third explanatory framework , teachers ' attitudes rather than their knowledge are described as crucial .
18 The latter goal may be achieved either indirectly , through teachers ' attitudes , or , more directly , through the sex-segregation of play areas and particular activities .
19 So the influence on teachers ' attitudes is probably greater than any immediate action taken as a result of analysing one child 's miscues .
20 The effectiveness of pupil learning in all curriculum areas , changes in teachers ' attitudes and awareness of the needs of children with learning difficulties , and long-term modifications to curriculum materials and teaching strategies will all be equally , if not more , relevant .
21 Thus , multicultural handbooks and official reports such as Ramp ton and Swann warn against the common teacher stereotypes of Afro-Caribbean ( ‘ disruptive ’ , ‘ lazy ’ ) and Asian ( ‘ industrious ’ , ‘ passive ’ , ‘ over-ambitious ’ ) students which are also documented in academic research on teachers ' attitudes ( Brittan , 1976 ) .
22 How might the behaviour and attitudes of the pupils be affected by the organization of the school and the teachers ' attitudes and expectations ?
23 They saw the school as condoning these teachers ' attitudes .
24 In the extract below they refer to the effect the teachers ' attitudes have on their behaviour and on the way prejudices appear to match their gradations of colour :
25 This assumption turned out to be correct with regard to teachers ' attitudes towards the efficiency of the scheme , about which teachers in the northern schools are much more positive .
26 Factor analysis of statements in the questionnaire derived from two earlier case studies indicates that teachers ' attitudes towards the booklet may be classified under five headings : towards its general utility about which they were moderately positive ; its flexibility and effectiveness , about which they were still positive but slightly less so ; the frankness and balance of the SSE likely to result from its use about which they were generally slightly negative .
27 Significant differences in teachers ' attitudes towards the collegiality and openness of SSE are associated with whether they have seen the Solihull booklet , how well they can recall it , and whether changes in schools occurred as a consequence of its use .
28 As with collegiality and openness and professionality , teachers ' attitudes towards the efficiency of SSE and the threat it poses are significantly differentiated by how well they recall the Solihull booklet .
29 This part of the survey deals with teachers ' attitudes towards SSE generally , and is not therefore restricted in its application only to that minority of Solihull secondary teachers who have actually seen the booklet .
30 None of the other categorizations of teachers ( by location of school ( ‘ north' and ‘ south ’ ) ; by subject(s) taught ; by use of the booklet for INSET ) are associated with significant differentiation of teachers ' attitudes towards SSE .
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