School hassles were: " I am afraid of not being smart enough at school", "Big problems in understanding the teacher when he/she is teaching", "Big pressure from those around me to succeed and do well at school", "Problems with one or more teachers", "Arguments or problems with other(s) in class" (α =.57).
In two days, I'd be taught tyre pressure, traction control, track assessment and vehicle recovery – with cheese platters, bottles of bubbly and resort accommodation thrown in.
Like most people, I was taught that pressure is a negative thing, a malevolent weight we're under, a cruel and impersonal outside force, pressing down on us from above, holding us back.
They are wrongly being used to cover for teachers for "protracted periods", which deprives children of proper teaching and puts pressure on support staff.
Patients reported that peer teaching and peer pressure to adopt better self-care strategies were welcomed, and understood as supportive.
Longer school days will just add unnecessary stress and pressure on teaching and non-teaching staff, a school's resources and the students themselves.
The media is full of stories about the pressures of teaching.
Other factors were also conspiring to place pressures on teaching, he suggested.
Maureen Picard Robins Whitestone, Queens, April 19, 2010 The writer is the editor of "The Pressures of Teaching," a collection of writings by teachers.
Inevitably, under such forceful pressures, the teaching of composition, previously tied to the laws of modal counterpoint, quickly shifted to the harmonic challenges of the figured bass.
