Those Who Can, Teach: What It Takes To Make the Next Generation

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At a time when there is fierce competition for good graduates, the Teacher Training Agency (TTA) is hoping to attract high calibre graduates - as well as those seeking a change of career - into the profession.

Those Who Can, Teach: What It Takes To Make the Next

Teaching the young involves challenges such as disciplining unruly students, empathy, recognising leaning difficulties, awareness of classroom politics, and the translation of complex information into age-appropriate explanations and examples (just to name a few). Perhaps most importantly though, teaching the young requires their curiosity is piqued so learning is welcomed as an adventure they want to continue. A prizewinning teacher makes clear how little government understands about what goes on in schools . . . Those Who Can, Teach is a response to the government's scattergun approach to education, a plea for them to take notice of the pressures teachers are increasingly placed under, and how education policy is damaging young people. [Zafirakou's] simple, direct style often feels close to a manifesto

Those who are left behind are crying out for a reduction in bureaucracy and improvements in discipline. Does this mean only top-level teachers are capable, and childhood educators or on-the-job trainers are simply the incompetent bunch unable to perform? Well, not necessarily. Teaching hones knowledge and ability Teachers are leaving the profession in their droves," said the shadow education secretary, Theresa May. With that in mind, we’ve collected some of the more famous quotes about teaching, doing our best to include a wide range of perspectives, cultures, nationalities, races, spiritualities–many of the things that make ‘us’ different, we tried to somehow use to curate the quotes. In that way, some will be familiar, some way will be about formal education, some will be sourced from old proverbs, etc.

Those Who Can, Teach by Andria Zafirakou | Waterstones Those Who Can, Teach by Andria Zafirakou | Waterstones

What does this mean for teachers? It means for any teacher worth their salt, the response ‘that’s just how it is’ isn’t an option. It means formulaic processes of achieving a goal can’t simply be mastered in rote fashion and applied indefinitely. It means ‘when it feels right’ isn’t a sufficient explanation, and identifying why makes all the difference. It also means the less common aspects of a role or task aren’t likely to fall victim to extinction. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.’— Theodore Roosevelt Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.’–Paulo Coelho It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.’–Albert Einstein Teaching is conceptual and intellectual, abstract and concrete, creative, and sequential. It’s about people but framed through ideas. It’s about content, hearts, minds, the past, the future–whatever we can imagine, teaching and learning are both causes and effects.Those who can’t do, teach’ is a truncation of the line ‘Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach’ from George Bernard Shaw’s 1905 stage play Man and Superman. Over a century later, and the derogatory phrase oft slung at educators stubbornly persists. A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.’–Mustafa Kemal Atatürk