The phrase "a sort of teaching" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a type or manner of teaching that may not fit traditional definitions or methods.
Example: "The workshop offered a sort of teaching that emphasized experiential learning over conventional lectures."
Alternatives: "a kind of instruction" or "a type of education".
Toby's comment at that party all those years ago suddenly presents as a sort of hidden teaching moment, a confirmation that this leap I have made is real.
There was 72-year-old Norman Douglas, for instance, a crankily independent writer and traveler who treated her as a sort of disciple, teaching her to apply high, unyielding standards to food and everything else.
In preparation for each of his starts, Blackburn immerses himself in a pregame ritual in which he focuses through a sort of meditation taught to him by his mother, Hope, when he was 13.
6. "When we [make mistakes], we will own up to them quickly and completely". Mindfulness teaches a sort-of radical honesty and authenticity and transparency.
"It is gentle, subliminal, yet very effective, a sort of propaganda that teaches by example and inspiration, not inculcation," said Paola Antonelli, senior design curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Later she writes that one of her husbands (presumably the same one) used to suggest to her: "When you're about fifty you ought to write a sort of handbook to teach women how to live in peace with the man they love, a code for life as a couple".
The Byzantine philosopher and politician Michael Psellus dedicated his De omnifaria doctrina ("On All Sorts of Teaching") to his former pupil the emperor Michael VII Ducas, ruler of the Eastern Roman Empire.
"I feel like I have all sorts of teaching tools that I've learned about, but I can't figure out when to use which ones".
It was a change from the sort of teaching Balleisen was accustomed to.
