The best equipment and curriculum materials are rendered useless unless there are first-rate teachers to use them.
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.
Valentino has hired first-rate teachers, constructed new buildings and erected two dormitories for girls (at least half the students will be girls).
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.
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.
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.
As a mentor, he's demanding and precise; to anyone who's studied an instrument, he'll be recognizable as a first-rate music teacher, possessed of strong opinions about technique and interpretation and given to smooth theories about music and the world.
In this Long Island community, where many parents are professors at the state university campus, June Adinolfi is known as a first-rate art teacher and a fine painter, but she is legendary for getting seniors with art talent into top colleges.
