"decent teacher" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when describing a teacher who is of average or satisfactory quality, but not exceptional or outstanding. Example: "Ms. Smith is a decent teacher, but she could improve her classroom management skills."
After all, student tutors are rarely given decent teacher training (is anyone in higher education?) and have to learn as they go.
This may be consistent with the job-hopping habits of millennials, but according to veteran educators it generally takes at least three years to become a decent teacher.
He felt he owed it to that first class of third graders to stick with the job long enough to become a decent teacher.
A two-tiered school system which further marginalizes the marginalized should be an anathema to any decent teacher -- and in most cases it is.
Any decent teacher will accept these circumstances.
This means the more expensive the neighborhood real estate, the more likely that the children living there will attend a school with decent teacher-student ratios and more in the way of "extras" like art and music classes than their peers with less financially flush moms and dads.
"Decent teachers just lose interest".
There are simply too few decent teachers to go around.
"Another concern is that some of the smaller rural communities have a real challenge holding on to decent teachers for more than a year or so.
A teacher for 36 years myself, I am increasingly convinced that decent teachers are born not made and that Ofsted-style box ticking simply puts off the ones who can do it.
That fragile and rotten thing, the Kenyan state, will have to help sustain those dramatic improvements, by providing decent teachers, doctors and farm advisers just what Kenyans have most lacked.
