Teachers respond positively and enthusiastically to praise, constructive suggestions and genuine attempts to improve their performance, as do professionals in other fields.
However, school performance as well as professional career does not only depend on intelligence.
The current health status of today's students may provide an insight into their likely performance as professional workers in the future.
She was apparently firmly convinced of her own greatness, comparing herself to famous sopranos such as Frieda Hempel and Luisa Tetrazzini, and dismissing audience laughter during performances as "professional jealousy".
- from Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Peak Performance" As sustainability professionals, we have to weave in the reality of high risk/high reward that is the new operating landscape for global business, as do our corporate accounting counterparts.
Everton manager Roberto Martinez: "We wanted as professional a performance as we could and that's as professional as it gets.
He shot 81 (his worst performance as a professional) in a miserable Saturday round here in 2002.
"Last year helped me a lot but I think it is a better performance as a professional to return and back up the performance as an amateur last year.
In one of my essays, I wrote that the position a quarterback is taken in the college draft is not a reliable indicator of his performance as a professional.
Even Joan Crawford, often so stiff and humorless, gave a spontaneous and likable performance as a professional woman unable to choose between lovers (Andrews, again, and Henry Fonda) in "Daisy Kenyon" (1947), Preminger's sole, and very engaging, venture into the modern-woman's-picture genre.
