Your body is the most brilliant, insightful, caring, nurturing, intuitive, persistent, honest, knowledgeable teacher you have ever encountered.
She demonstrated that she could carry a show when, in 1961, she played Annie Sullivan, the persistent and faintly sadistic teacher of an undisciplined, disabled girl in William Gibson's The Miracle Worker.
Too often, teachers enter the classroom ill-equipped to respond to students' challenging behaviors: their refusal to do work, defiance of teacher authority, persistent arguing, or, in the words of one principal I know, their ability to go from "zero to 100 in a split second".
If you weren't, and he is uncomfortably persistent, talk to a teacher or parent.
Yancopoulos says Regeneron sponsors the Westchester Science and Engineering Fair owing largely to two persistent high school science teachers who made him realize that most scientists had, at some point, a science teacher who helped make a difference.
For instance, students' assessments of individual teachers show persistent gender bias, and the item on assessment and feedback hardly ever changes, whatever the context.
"There's been a lack of urgency in the council's response to persistent complaints from head teachers about the conduct of certain governors," he said.
Persistent low expectations from teachers and other adults, being denied high level coursework, and being feared can create deep internal scars.
