Sentence examples for progressive teacher from inspiring English sources

The rise and fall of Miss Brodie, a progressive teacher trapped in a conservative school, seeking to mould her chosen few with her "stimulating" dress sense and unconventional teaching methods has been adapted faithfully by Jay Presson Allan.

We studied it in English class my freshman year in high school, with an excellent and progressive teacher who made quite a point of its being a major work of literature and social criticism.

But Mr. Georges, a student of the progressive teacher and painter Hans Hofmann, uses the methods of modernist art: shallow space with ambiguous perspective, subordination of details to dominant forms, the flat planes and color areas of contemporary abstraction.

And no, this is not coming from the lips of a wishy-washy progressive teacher spawned by Gove's "blob", but is an integral part of the national development of a country right at the top of those international league tables we aspire to emulate.

You couldn't say, 'I don't do comedy' or 'I don't do thrillers.' " Thus it was that Mr. Newell found himself directing "Mona Lisa Smile," a film about the efforts of a progressive teacher, played by Julia Roberts, to instill some feminist fire into some 1953 Wellesley undergraduates hoping above all else to leave school with Mrs. degrees.

He has offered a grant to the progressive Teacher Union Reform Network, and in Denver he has backed a union-supported program that pays teachers bonuses when students perform well on standardized tests.

Lumiar's progressive teachers don't teach from a syllabus.

Here is Mr Blunkett attacking "progressive" teachers; there is Mr Darling blaming the left for obstructing welfare reform.

In their enthusiasm for learning-by-discovery, progressive teachers sometimes forgot that some skills (eg, basic arithmetic) are too important to be left for pupils to stumble across by chance.

"The strong leadership by the mayor, the chancellor and a progressive teachers' union has allowed a school system the size of New York City to dramatically improve student achievement in a relatively short period of time," Mr. Broad said in a statement.

Fortunately, there is a movement gathering which embraces both traditionalists like TES columnist Tom Bennett, who also runs the researchEd movement, and more progressive teachers like Tom Sherrington, the inspirational head of Highbury Grove school in London.