He belongs in front of a classroom.
"Principals know best who is high performing in their school and who should be in front of a classroom teaching".
I heard this as I stood in front of a classroom full of old-growth forest ecology students.
Both have undergraduate degrees in elementary education, yet they both recalled how lost they felt when they first stood in front of a classroom.
It's not clear how many people get hired as full-time teachers without ever having stood in front of a classroom for a single hour.
It's easy to imagine him in front of a classroom at the City College of New York, where he taught English after obtaining degrees from Harvard and Columbia.
The commercial ends with a shot of an empty desk at the front of a classroom, where a teacher should be.
If you've never stood at the front of a classroom, there's a dauntingly steep learning curve to effectively undertaking the "support and challenge" role of a school governor.
"We call it three R's: reinvestment, reinvention and responsibility," he said, standing at the front of a classroom used for history, art and Spanish lessons.
Today's veterans will graduate college, and in a few more years, they'll have master's and doctorates; eventually more than a few will take their place at the front of a classroom.
In little more than a month, you can find yourself at the front of a classroom explaining points of grammar that you may not have explicitly learnt yourself at school.
