verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a career in journalism/politics/teaching etc
▪ At the age of 15, he knew he wanted a career in politics.
a teaching method
▪ Neill had considerable influence over modern teaching methods.
a teaching post
▪ My first teaching post was in outer London.
a teaching/acting/sporting career
▪ Her acting career lasted for more than 50 years.
a teaching/medical/legal etc qualificationBrE:
▪ She has a degree and a teaching qualification.
language teaching
▪ recent developments in language teaching
student teaching
teach a class
▪ One of the other teachers was ill so I taught her class.
teach a course
▪ She is teaching an introductory course in Russian.
teach sb manners (=often used when criticizing someone’s impolite behaviour)
▪ Those girls need to be taught some manners!
teaching assistant
teaching hospital
teaching practice
▪ You have to do three months of teaching practice before you qualify.
teaching/classroom aids
▪ teaching aids and resources
the teaching profession
▪ There are not enough physicists entering the teaching profession.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
child
▪ It is impossible to teach children as though each fits a neatly turned theory.
▪ Instead, we teach our children to talk quietly, to talk less, and to stay out of the way.
▪ She also opened a school on the fifth floor of the Rebiya Building, dedicated to teaching poor Uighur children.
▪ What Primary Forum does is honor those important issues and teach children how to deal with them as a group.
▪ Your child's school will value your support in teaching your child about how to make good relationships.
▪ All you have to do, it seems, is teach a child to read.
▪ It is also vital that a targeted desirable behaviour is taught to the child to compete with the punished behaviour.
▪ One approach is to teach your child basic fitness skills early.
class
▪ Its main function was teaching, through evening classes.
▪ The nun who teaches our class gives us time during the school day to begin.
▪ Yesterday he had taught the class about the wonders of John Dory.
▪ In the winter women went to Radcliffe, where Harvard professors taught them in special classes.
▪ Today she teaches six classes a week, including two handicapped ones.
▪ He taught no high-level classes in black studies; the department, in fact, had no such classes.
▪ Father Henry taught catechism to some classes and was, in effect, the priest in the convent chapel.
college
▪ He took up a job at the City Day College teaching day-release students.
▪ Community college faculty teach courses at the high schools.
▪ At issue in the Gingrich case is a college course he taught from 1993-95 with financial support from a nonprofit foundation.
▪ With that, the formal investigation of charges centering on a college course Gingrich once taught will come to an end.
▪ Graduated from college and currently teaching in south Texas.
▪ The investigation focused on a college course Gingrich taught with financial support from nonprofit foundations.
course
▪ The course is taught by seminars, workshops and groupwork, and assessed by coursework, project assignments, and a dissertation.
▪ They have eliminated the general track and replaced low-level academic courses with ones that teach college-preparatory content in new ways.
▪ These courses are taught jointly with Medical Microbiology and Biochemistry respectively.
▪ At issue in the Gingrich case is a college course he taught in 1993-95 with financial support from a nonprofit foundation.
▪ Computerised library courses certainly teach the student how to interact with the terminal and use computer dialogue.
▪ Personals asked him about changes in plays over the long course of his teaching and writing career: &038;.
▪ The course is taught partly in College, where students attend lectures, seminars workshops and tutorials, and partly in schools.
▪ Humbling experiences on the golf course have taught her to take things slowly, and not get too far ahead of herself.
history
▪ Limbaugh is complaining about the teaching of history.
▪ Moving from research to teaching history is like moving from one watercourse to another...
▪ Old people are often a source of fascinating information and opinion about the past that young people are being taught as history!
▪ For the next few years, Sister Teresa taught geography, history and catechism, and performed several other duties besides.
▪ My brief was to teach art and history of art to all age groups.
▪ He had taught history of some kind, although Glover never bothered in forty-five years to find out what kind.
▪ Some teachers might even choose to teach the entire history syllabus by working backwards from the present.
▪ I teach history at the high school and junior high school levels.
language
▪ In textbooks and audio material for language teaching the characters are usually there as pegs the language can be hung on.
▪ Fourteen languages are taught in the public schools.
▪ Latin's not one of those languages you can teach with tape-recorders and acting little plays.
▪ The few exceptions involved such activities as language teaching and protection of rights, health and safety.
▪ The language is taught systematically, thoroughly, and clearly, with rapid progression throughout the course.
▪ Theory and Practice in adult second language teaching Several more generic issues emerge, however.
▪ In the school system, many teachers do not have a strong enough grasp of the language to teach in it effectively.
lesson
▪ That is the first lesson I teach my students at Bart's.
▪ Loving the role of mentor, Horton had many lessons to teach.
▪ They enjoyed his lessons and he enjoyed teaching them.
▪ As we shall see, the lesson they teach is that we are designed for a system of monogamy plagued by adultery.
▪ We want to know what lessons they teach us about human affairs.
▪ The consequences that flow from our actions are life lessons designed to teach us how to cope with adversity.
method
▪ Phillips and Raup - comparing methods for teaching the use of periodical indexes, in 1979.
▪ The methods taught in the 1983 manual and those used by Battalion 316 in the early 1980s show unmistakable similarities.
▪ It would use new methods to teach traditional academic subjects and equip young people with technical skills.
▪ Nevertheless, the method of teaching remains the same.
▪ He created the classroom method of teaching, as opposed to one-on-one instruction, then founded numerous schools.
▪ In class, Albers used a hands-on method to teach key ideas.
▪ Torture methods taught in the 1983 manual include stripping suspects naked and keeping them blindfolded.
▪ And the standard method of teaching was sheer translation.
school
▪ It runs over 150 primary and nursery schools, and 12 secondary schools teaching agriculture, commerce and industry.
▪ More than 50 high schools established cooperative courses with post-secondary schools, taught on the high school campus.
▪ Sheelagh Mullany, a business studies teacher, is using school computers to teach word-processing to a group of parents.
▪ Throughout the sixties and well into the seventies, children were cultivated at school, not taught.
▪ The teachers in our schools did not teach it.
▪ We now face the disgraceful situation of nearly 1 million children in primary schools being taught in classes of more than 30.
science
▪ So the Science Centres nearing completion in Glasgow and Dundee will provide an enormous boost to science teaching throughout the country.
▪ She was thinking about switching to the science teaching program in the School of Education.
▪ The quality of science teaching has also declined relative to other subjects.
▪ Back in the 1960s, science was taught only to a minority of children-the most academically able at secondary level.
▪ The report also said science teaching standards in the early secondary years lagged behind other subjects.
▪ It will celebrate the successes of science teaching in schools and colleges and will share the latest ideas.
▪ The new national strategy must find ways to encourage more challenging and exciting practical science teaching.
▪ If science has taught us anything, however, it is that the environment is full of uncertainty.
skill
▪ Learning the turtle reaction is combined with teaching the child problem-solving skills, during which recent problem situations are discussed.
▪ It has added courses in its industrial engineering and automotive divisions that teach more advanced skills.
▪ However, when business schools say that they can effectively teach entrepreneurial skills, what do they really mean?
▪ Youths are taught nutrition-related skills, enabling them to improve the adequacy of their diets.
▪ We can no longer assume that because some one can do the job they can teach the skill.
▪ Leadership courses can only teach skills.
▪ Another strand of my job was to teach management skills to local health workers.
▪ Working together, the staff developed numerous ways to use the neighborhood around the school to teach academic skills.
student
▪ Council members condemned plans to make universities bid for public money based on the number of students they expected to teach.
▪ Yale graduate students who help teach undergraduates are withholding first-semester grades in an attempt to force the university to recognize their union.
▪ In practising a form, the student is taught to defend himself against a series of imaginary opponents.
▪ As a first-year graduate student, I taught an undergraduate honors seminar on concepts of normality.
▪ Each student would teach at least one lesson on each visit.
▪ Those new standards, the product of years of work, will dramatically change the way students are taught in California.
▪ Departments and faculties receive staffing calculated from the student FTEs they teach.
▪ Also typical of Black Mountain was the assumption that students had things to teach their teachers.
subject
▪ And as you teach all subjects in the Junior School, you will be able to let Art enliven all your work.
▪ The amendment required that all teachers be certified to teach the subjects to which they were assigned.
▪ Choice One of the crucial decisions, now, is whether to teach a subject discretely, or to integrate.
▪ It is often said that good teachers do not teach subject matter, they teach who they are.
▪ But the number of graduates securing places on training courses to teach these subjects is still being squeezed.
▪ This plot construction is unnecessary; why not just teach the subject at hand?
▪ We believe that it is educationally wrong to teach a subject in isolation without linking it to the outside world.
▪ It would use new methods to teach traditional academic subjects and equip young people with technical skills.
teacher
▪ This method is less time-consuming as one teacher will be teaching several learners.
▪ The amendment required that all teachers be certified to teach the subjects to which they were assigned.
▪ L teacher who has taught lots of lessons with the unit.
▪ Thus the teacher users will be teaching the whole system - program plus published documents.
▪ It is often said that good teachers do not teach subject matter, they teach who they are.
▪ The designer who assumes all teachers will teach like him, or as he intends, is probably writing private programs.
▪ Other teachers ought to teach this way too.
technique
▪ Rita is a machine knitter of 20 years' standing who has taught many techniques of the craft.
▪ Can a teacher sue a principal for slander for making critical remarks about his or her teaching techniques?
▪ A pilot course to teach community interpreter training techniques was set up at the Polytechnic of Central London last year.
▪ Everyone, including aides and orderlies, was taught techniques so that each patient was moved as much as possible.
▪ It may also be possible to promote rest by teaching some specific relaxation technique, e.g. deep breathing, yoga.
▪ However, in these settings, at their best, great strides were made in medical and teaching techniques.
▪ To avoid these situations it is important for pilots to be taught the right technique for the take-off run.
▪ Promoting and teaching laboratory techniques appropriate for public health purposes are also critical.
things
▪ The father has to teach his boy various things.
▪ It will teach you some things about yourself.
▪ The people who had more experience used to teach me lots of things.
▪ Humbling experiences on the golf course have taught her to take things slowly, and not get too far ahead of herself.
▪ They jest don't teach interestin' things at school.
▪ He was a great friend, the ultimate companion-older and wiser, some one who could teach me things.
▪ In the days to come she would tell me the story, she would teach me many things.
▪ He taught me things that saved my life several times.
university
▪ I teach at the University of Colorado.
▪ He continued to teach in the university until his wife died, when he resumed his Fellowship and took Orders.
▪ The papacy, to maintain orthodoxy, placed restrictions on which universities could teach theology.
▪ She was an undergrad at Barnard and he a graduate teaching assistant at the university.
▪ That year, she began teaching at Georgetown University, from which the president had graduated in 1968.
■ VERB
begin
▪ We may well ask: where shall I begin in teaching a brand new congregation?
▪ He began teaching at Cal State Fresno in 1979.
▪ By that time Bechet had settled in Brooklyn, where he began teaching to help his pocket.
▪ She began teaching the nine-session class in suburban Dallas, and continued to do so when the couple moved to Austin.
▪ It is therefore extremely important that such a vital ability should at least begin to be taught during the school years.
▪ That year, she began teaching at Georgetown University, from which the president had graduated in 1968.
learn
▪ I have learned that there are no special practices or techniques we must learn in order to teach mathematics to our bilingual children.
▪ That you must teach others what you have learned.
▪ As a result there is some prospect of schools once more becoming places where children are expected to learn and teachers to teach.
▪ That is precisely what these teachers do by creating an active, hands-on environment for learning and teaching.
▪ But equally important, learning about rabbits taught Miles, Evan, arid me more about people.
▪ Teachers are going back to university to learn how to teach the National Curriculum.
▪ But the children scuttled those plans, some jumping immediately on to the Net, learning databases and teaching their friends.
try
▪ I was writing at the time and trying to teach myself languages.
▪ Vladimir finally gave up trying to teach me and returned to his sketching.
▪ My own experience of trying to teach and train managers is that it is extremely difficult to teach grown up people anything.
▪ She tried to teach him how to play the piano, but he had no great talent for it.
▪ Finally we stopped trying to teach and also fled to Nampula.
▪ The teachers, who were trying to teach lip-reading, understood only a few basic signs.
▪ Yet, haven't we tried to teach and think in non-racial history?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
learn/be taught sth at your mother's knee
secondary education/schooling/teaching etc
▪ A father explained to me that he would put one of his three sons through primary and secondary education.
▪ All had to prepare a Development Plan describing five years' improvement to bring about secondary education for all.
▪ During secondary education, the use of the spoken word increases.
▪ Full mixed-ability teaching, especially if it reached into the middle and later years of secondary schooling, was comparatively rare.
▪ If you came from a poor family the only way you could get secondary education was by gaining a scholarship.
▪ In practice, given the monoglot tendency in secondary education it might be difficult to recruit students with the necessary competence.
▪ Remember that people were then leaving school at 12 or 14 and there was no secondary education available in the town.
▪ These differences increased during secondary education: children from lower-status occupational groups declined from their 11 plus position relative to higher groups.
teach/show sb a trick or two
▪ Experienced teachers can teach new teachers a trick or two.
the teaching/scientific/criminal etc fraternity
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Teaching literature to the fifth grade is no joke!
▪ Grandpa taught me a new card trick.
▪ I've always wanted to learn to ski - could you teach me?
▪ I taught for a year in France.
▪ I teach 18- to 21-year olds.
▪ I prefer teaching the older children.
▪ It took us several hours to teach all the dance moves to the girls.
▪ Joe's mother taught him that he could do anything, if only he tried hard enough.
▪ Miss Himes teaches the youngest class, the four and five- year-olds.
▪ My Dad taught school in New York.
▪ My mother taught me how to cook.
▪ Parents need to teach their children the difference between right and wrong.
▪ Russell has been teaching in Japan for almost ten years.
▪ She teaches English to Italian students.
▪ She got a job teaching German at a local school.
▪ When I was young, children were taught to treat older people with respect.
▪ Who taught you to drive?
▪ You must remember Mr Hughes - he used to teach us history.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ During his teens, his father was building a law practice in Brooklyn and teaching law part-time.
▪ Léonie kept her hands outside the covers as she had been taught by the nuns at her primary school.
▪ My brief was to teach art and history of art to all age groups.
▪ Nobody has to sleep; you're taught to sleep when you're a kid.
▪ Public schools should not teach metaphysics without clearly identifying them as such.
▪ The teaching facilities for our Drama Department needed reconfiguring and redecorating.
▪ There was never a suggestion that my father alone could not love me, teach me, discipline me.
▪ Wyatt hugged her; she had taught him how to swim two summers ago.