Sentence examples for point teachers from inspiring English sources

At this point, teachers are generally not fired or disciplined for poor knowledge of Estonian.

Whatever the reason, staff and parents who behave in this way are missing the point: teachers and parents are far more important than friends.

Three former West Point teachers had been in the wing of the Pentagon ripped open by one of Tuesday's suicide jets.

He worked diligently, with concentration and iron will, to succeed at West Point; teachers and students joked that had the course of study been five years, not four, Jackson might well have graduated first in his class.

While John Donnelly's new play, which kicks off a Bush schools season, is in a long tradition, it is also a fast-paced piece making a disturbing point: teachers, working against impossible odds, are often as flawed as those they vainly try to educate.

An examiner could therefore point teachers in the right direction – perhaps misinterpreted by the Telegraph as telling teachers the questions – without feeling that he or she was saying anything new; most teachers would have guessed what questions were going to come up anyway.

At that point, teacher preparation programs will be required to achieve accreditation for the first time.

The ground-breaking 1968 study Pygmalion in the Classroom -- in which researchers gave teachers false information about the IQ results of select students -- first proved this very point: teacher expectations matter.

Government policy increasingly points teachers in the opposite direction, encouraging them to concentrate on students' results, said the study's author, Chris Watkins, a reader in education at the institute.

Unfortunately, as two new books, Elizabeth Green's "Building a Better Teacher" (Norton) and Dana Goldstein's "The Teacher Wars" (Doubleday), point out, teacher training in most of the United States has usually been an afterthought.

At this point, music teachers, we get the major-key version of Schubert's theme.