Sentence examples for prestige of teaching from inspiring English sources

Unlike in many European and Asian countries, the power and prestige of teaching in secondary education in the USA is poor (Etzioni 1969; Lortie 1975; Tyack 1974).

The prestige of teaching at the nation's most elite arts school remains a major draw for such artists, particularly at a time when China's art scene is flourishing.

"I am trying to fill vacancies through collective bargaining, expansion of the New York City Teaching Fellows program and an ad campaign that aims at raising the prestige of teaching while recruiting teachers".

For example, we know that the status of teachers and the prestige of teaching as a profession have a strong influence on the quality of instruction, but that status varies strongly across cultures and is not easily influenced by short-term policy.

The prestige of teaching as a profession could be increased by defining very clear boundaries between what laypersons and what the actual practitioners know about the field.

Third Way cites several factors that have facilitated this declining prestige of teaching: a low bar for preparation and certification, lack of focus on training and retaining teachers who raise student achievement, and lack of career pathways and compensation systems that reward excellence over seniority.

The metrics should be measures of the quality of teaching offered, rather than the prestige of institutions or the profile of their students.

The academic profession is being reshaped according to a two tier model – a shrinking core of relatively secure permanent staff gradually being withdrawn from teaching to focus on the prestige (and grant money) brought by research, and a growing periphery of workers on short term or hourly-paid contracts who do the job of teaching students.

And in most, the falling prestige of the teaching profession makes matters worse.But Ms Sarmiento, who graduated from a four-year biology degree course a year early, had to see off fierce competition to win her teaching spot.

To teach a rising tide of students, colleges have increasingly turned to adjuncts, holders of advanced degrees who are lured in by the prestige of college teaching, hired on a piecework basis, paid low wages and shut out of academic decision-making.

Mr Gove said: "Children lose a day of education, parents have to scrabble to pay more for expensive child care and the prestige of the teaching profession, which we all want to see re-enforced and built up, takes a knock".