A thoughtful teacher, scholar and writer.
But his strategies — scrapping certification, better testing and improved compensation — cannot hope to produce master teachers without a more thoughtful teacher induction system.
My uncle Tony Martin, who has died aged 94, was a kindly, thoughtful teacher whose cheerful grin masked a yearning engagement with spiritual matters.
Thanks to a string of thoughtful teachers, adolescent milestones and pep talks from my loving parents, by the time I graduated high school, I had banished the assumption that my lot in life was to be a living sex doll.
While her marriage —and also her yoga practice — were foundering, she began regularly running into Corey De Rosa, an intense, thoughtful yoga teacher in Sag Harbor.
Dr. Campbell is remembered by family, patients, colleagues and students as a thoughtful, rigorous teacher, a talented researcher and a compassionate doctor.
And in "Taare Zameen Par", also Oscar-nominated, he was a thoughtful art teacher captivated by a dyslexic student.At first glance, his recent foray into television seemed to be an extension of his films.
It's with good reason that so many thoughtful classroom teachers and education researchers are strongly opposed to this "core standards" initiative -- which, let's remember, has been driven primarily by corporate officials, politicians and testing companies.
He was a dynamic, engaging, thoughtful and caring teacher who believed there were no wrong answers in his classroom.
At least initially, Bernard and Roman raise questions worthy of Thomas Mann's Adrian Leverkühn, or any thoughtful student or teacher: What is the relationship between talent and craft, genius and mediocrity?
A thoughtful and erudite teacher, researcher, administrator, community activist and clinician, Dr. Wells, together with his wife, Rhoda Wynn Wells, was an active and much loved member of the Medical Center community.
