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On English teaching.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
SIR: I could not help but be wryly amused as well as slightly affronted by Dr Mark Lopez's lambasting (March 2008) of the English teacher who could possibly be one of the square pegs forced into a round hole by a frustrated principal who finds it necessary at times to have less-than-perfect teachers taking a subject that is neither their academic major nor their preferred teaching subject.
Dr Lopez's constant self-adulation as a teacher of English is possibly diluted by some of his own constructions: "an inferior teacher who they regard as"; "without their class teacher knowing"; "present their practice essays to these teachers for feedback, instead of their class teacher". I am not sure that his sentence beginning "Their consequent feelings ... " is as comprehensible as he intended.
I wonder if the "dedicated, competent teachers" would appreciate Dr ...
- Dr. Lopez and Ferrara de Gama.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- First-class teacher was loved by his pupils; OBITUARY.
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) June 20, 1998 700+ words
...school, Mrs Moira Hawkins, spoke of the shock felt by pupils, parents and fellow teachers. She said: "He was a first-class teacher who did a very professional job in the classroom. He was fond of playing little jokes and pranks on the children. He was...
- "Training a world class Teacher, Childcare & Healthcare giver"
- Newspaper article from: Daily Mirror December 24, 2008 700+ words
...loved ones! The vision of "Mother's Touch Vocational Training Academy is to train a World Class Caregiver, and a World Class Teacher to nurture a World Class Citizen" says Mrs. Kaduwela. Published by HT Syndication with permission from Daily Mirror...
- Supporting students with dyslexia in secondary schools; every class teacher's...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News February 1, 2009 700+ words
9780415478113 Supporting students with dyslexia in secondary schools; every class teacher's guide to removing barriers and raising attainment. Thomson, Moira. Routledge 2009 158 pages $47.95 Paperback LC4708 Consultant...
- Class teacher's seeing triple!(News)
- Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) September 11, 2003 700+ words
IT'S treble trouble for one Rugby school as identical triplets Megan, Holly and Sophie Temple turned up for classes this week. The four-year-old triplets, of Fleet Crescent, Hillmorton, had their first day at Abbotts Farm infant school, in Abbotts Way, on Tuesday. And mum Paula says so far lessons
- Class, teacher on medication as girl gets case of meningitis.
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald October 14, 1999 700+ words
A 6-year-old kindergarten student in Osterville diagnosed with bacterial meningitis over the weekend after she spent Friday planting flower bulbs at a park with her classmates was listed in good condition yesterday afternoon at Children's Hospital in Boston. As a precautionary measure, about 20
- Bomb class.(teacher teach bomb making)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Child Protection Law Report March 1, 2005 700+ words
BOMB CLASS. Police arrested an Orange County, Fla., chemistry teacher for allegedly teaching high school students how to make a bomb. The teacher admitted that he detonated chemicals in a coffee can in an outdoor area. The detonation, the teacher claimed, was a chemistry project designed to show a
- Sex-class teacher placed on leave: Thornton meeting focuses on classroom use of...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) March 14, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Jo Napolitano Mar. 14--The board of Thornton Elementary School District 154 decided Tuesday night that a teacher accused of handing out sexually explicit material to 8th graders in a health class would go on paid administrative leave immediately and his contract would not be renewed for the
