Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.
You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children
I have vowed to make my administration's educational priorities - indeed, priorities in any issue area - abundantly clear. Students come first, and hardworking faculty deserve every respect and dignity.
And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.
So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.
The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.
Good dental care doesn't make you a good student, but if your tooth hurts, it's hard to be a good student.
The student ends up lusting after time with the teacher, hanging on her every word, and forgetting that this is about him or her, the student, not the teacher.
Older students know what they want, which is good.
Education is the most important thing and a lot of kids in south London get distracted from education.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.
Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies.
I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid.
Hardworking, passionate teachers know their students' needs better than anyone else in the school environment. If we can tap into their needs, we can unleash smarter solutions and empower those people on the front lines.
But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.
Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.
