And even the best teacher can have a poor lesson or even a poor patch – as teachers are human after all and things can be happening outside school which affect their performance within it.
The reaction of the district, he said, was "teaching a very poor lesson to our children about not accepting responsibility, and teaching them that lying and cheating is O.K".
It says that teachers' assessments of work against the national curriculum are "over-generous" and pupils are making poor progress at Key Stage 3. Primary school teaching is characterised by "poor lesson planning" with all pupils given the same work regardless of ability.
The Wall Street Journal lauded the IWF analysis in a 29 December editorial, saying that "to gussy up... demands as objective science and then hide the data is a poor lesson for the students".
Imagine some of the poorer lessons you or I have delivered?
It is a crash course in how to be poor - lessons long assimilated by the well-off, who have learned how to feel dissatisfaction with plenty, the inadequacy of excess.
Address the circumstances, your poor judgment, lessons learned, and move the discussion forward.
One protester, a teacher, complained that the mayor was providing a poor civics lesson, and a state senator, Eric Adams, summed up the growing discontent — and drew the loudest cheers — by comparing Mr. Bloomberg to an athlete who was running out of time.
In the event that anybody missed Twain's meaning, President Grover Cleveland in 1887 set forth the rules of engagement while explaining his veto of a bill offering financial aid to the poor: "The lesson should be constantly enforced that, though the people support the government, the government should not support the people".
Communication Lessons: Poor communication between the rehabilitation facility and the hospital made this diagnosis far more difficult than it should have been.
The research also strongly suggested that poor sex education lessons are driving a rise in the number of young gay men contracting HIV.
