The best equipment and curriculum materials are rendered useless unless there are first-rate teachers to use them.
Valentino has hired first-rate teachers, constructed new buildings and erected two dormitories for girls (at least half the students will be girls).
He also said he had brought first-rate teachers to Moscow from around the world — New York, Paris, Copenhagen, Havana — to supplement the stable of about 20 Russian coaches.
Ms. Weingarten predicted that it would be hard to attract first-rate teachers, noting that for years, the biggest shortage of licensed teachers has been in math, science and bilingual education.
The filmmakers expect us to understand that the two male characters are second-rate teachers and second-rate men, too; that a perceptive woman like Terry should have her own career; that both couples got married when they were far too young.
Of course, there are some first rate journalism colleges - or rather first-rate teachers within the system - but generally academic journalism has achieved obedience to a set of assumptions that young journalists ought to be challenging.
Attract and retain first-rate teachers who are passionate about education and compassionate with students.
She became known as a first-rate teacher, opened a studio with the Graham dancer Gertrude Shurr and formed her own company.
And finally, the country will not build a first-rate teacher corps solely by threatening to fire people who are less than perfect early in their careers.
First grade teachers rated children's skills and functioning in November/December of the first year of school.
But, he adds, "unless you are absolutely first rate, which so few of us are, then what I call the letter-carrier function of the teacher is wonderful.
