noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a college student/teacher/lecturer
▪ a sixth-form college student
a language teacher
▪ a book for language teachers
a piano teacher
a qualified doctor/teacher/accountant etc
▪ After seven years of training, she is now a qualified doctor.
a student teacher/doctor/nurse (=someone who is learning to be a teacher, doctor, or nurse)
▪ Student teachers work alongside qualified teachers to gain classroom experience.
a teacher training college (=where you learn to be a teacher)
form teacher
gifted musician/artist/teacher etc
▪ She was an extremely gifted poet.
head teacher
play the idiot/the teacher etc
▪ Susan felt she had to play the good wife.
speak as a parent/teacher etc
▪ Speaking as a medical man, I'd advise you to take some exercise every day.
substitute teacher
supply teacher
teacher training
▪ Applications for postgraduate teacher training have increased by nearly 50%.
teacher's pet
trainee manager/solicitor/teacher etc
▪ a trainee hairdresser
us women/men/teachers etc
▪ Life is hard for us women.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
head
▪ The head teacher was presented with a set of Encyclopaedia Britannica, worth more than £1,600.
▪ They really were head teachers: educationalists first and last.
▪ This gives it more relevance in the eyes of head teachers.
▪ Whether these are presented as interesting old stories or as moralistic and relevant fables depends on the attitude of the head teacher.
▪ Today, head teacher Bob Mander held a special assembly for the popular pupil.
high
▪ Meanwhile, across the country, thousands of teachers are denied funding for MEd courses which often generate high quality teacher research.
▪ Jack Spencer was a high school teacher and a coach.
▪ Basil did not preach on such matters; he simply set high standards for teachers to emulate.
▪ He had the ironic, amused manner of a high school teacher, which he also was.
▪ They claim that doctors receive higher rewards than teachers because they are more fully professionalized.
▪ I remember speaking with a group of junior high and high school teachers.
▪ South Florida owes him the respect one gives to a stern high school teacher.
▪ Mr Horton, my high school physics teacher, has told me much the same thing.
primary
▪ Teacher's shot dead A PRIMARY school teacher was shot dead in front of a class by her estranged husband yesterday.
▪ In the primary grades, teachers put emphasis on language and reading skills.
▪ One is a primary teacher who was interested in the mental processes of children tackling simple addition.
▪ In this way, students can develop a semi-specialism, as well as the more general skills of the primary teacher.
▪ One day, the primary teacher guiding children through their instructional computer program may be able to prevent reading failure altogether.
▪ A similar tendency was observed in in-service B.Eds, which were almost entirely for Primary teachers.
secondary
▪ They liaise with secondary school careers teachers, and also with the employers in an area.
▪ Technically, they were simply secondary school teachers.
▪ Inspectors said that secondary teachers were failing to build on the success of primary science and were not challenging their younger pupils.
▪ The great majority of these Volunteers were secondary school teachers.
▪ In the Elton Report survey, only 9 percent of secondary school teachers had ever requested the suspension of a pupil.
▪ In terms of feedback from the report, primary teachers seem to have had most and secondary teachers least.
■ NOUN
class
▪ As a final resort, ask your class teachers whether they have a spare copy to lend you.
▪ The opportunity class teachers I knew either had some extra training and/or some special quality or flair.
▪ These tutorials involve the class teacher with whom the student worked in the previous two terms, as well as the course tutor.
▪ Moreover, there is no doubt that in large classes this practice can ease the burden on the class teacher.
▪ Shortages mean supply teachers are acting as permanent class teachers, leaving schools with no reserves to cover for sickness.
▪ Some class teachers are reluctant to become involved with this subject.
▪ Spoke to class teacher in corridor about work I proposed to do with one of his children.
▪ Five activities will be delivered, mostly by the class teacher, then.
education
▪ Classification and use indicators for the materials are provided by subject categories designed for special education teachers at the University of Kentucky.
▪ Haycocks I, on training of full-time education teachers was the most important report prepared by the Committee.
▪ Every special education teacher is worked with at least once a month, and other teachers are seen at their request.
▪ An excellent resource for students of applied sports science, Physical Education teachers, fitness advisers, coaches and athletes.
▪ She went on dialysis and discovered her life as a high school physical education teacher and athlete would be severely restricted.
▪ He tried drawing in his stomach and straightening his shoulders, as instructed by the physical education teacher.
▪ They have all the special education teachers that come in.
history
▪ Another teacher who moved me was an assistant principal named Cho, who doubled as a history teacher.
▪ My history teacher, who was a liberal, joked about such attitudes and I followed her cue.
▪ I had a history teacher in college who was tough and sharp.
▪ Unusually, he is not an investment analyst, but a former history teacher.
▪ As a matter of fact, her plan was to become a high-school history teacher.
▪ Hillis writes an excellent analysis of the many concerns which have exercised history teachers over the last 20 years.
▪ Bill supported the family as a high-school history teacher.
language
▪ We noted earlier that, as well as a shortage of science teachers in schools, there is a shortage of modern language teachers.
▪ The roles of applied linguist and language teacher are different; they work to different professional briefs.
▪ What we need to decide as language teachers is the degree to which other components of communication need teaching.
▪ For example, the Video Arts materials for management skills and other training are popular with language teachers.
▪ Such is the current shortage of foreign language teachers.
▪ They are more often than not monolingual and monocultural and, as language teachers, in a position of power.
▪ It is interesting to note that we often refer to the training rather than education of language teachers.
▪ Working abroad is particularly appropriate for language teachers.
school
▪ Jack Spencer was a high school teacher and a coach.
▪ I remember speaking with a group of junior high and high school teachers.
▪ Once upon a time school teachers who climbed might take a favoured few pupils to the crags in the Lagonda or Alvis.
▪ She loved her work as a nursery school teacher and the little ones in her care.
▪ Afterwards my letter from the headmaster read: ` Your nursery school teacher sketch was hilarious.
▪ Among them was the high school teacher who was renting us a room.
science
▪ It was particularly strong where the different science teachers worked together as a team to deliver S1-S4 courses.
▪ Thanks to my science teacher, Mr Broden, our class always was laughing.
▪ We noted earlier that, as well as a shortage of science teachers in schools, there is a shortage of modern language teachers.
▪ Or a math or science teacher who made inappropriate comments throughout the year.
▪ It seems some schools will start next year with fewer science teachers than they really need.
▪ Perhaps science teachers should not attempt to cover their subjects so comprehensively.
▪ I watched almost 600 of their lessons and conducted more than 200 interviews with them, their parents and science teachers.
▪ Is it worth it? Science teacher Andy Johnson thinks so as it has unleashed more creativity.
student
▪ Even student teachers, who might reasonably be expected to be the least jaundiced and most optimistic informants, aren't happy.
▪ Are there special liability standards for substitute teachers and student teachers?
▪ We used to have student teachers in from what was then called Borough Road Training College.
▪ This doctrine is illustrated by a New York case where a student teacher was injured while participating in a donkey basketball game.
▪ For example, a parallel rise in the number of children entering schools will result in an increased need for student teachers.
▪ Teachers and student teachers from six North County schools are taking part.
▪ The other letter is from Melanie, a 19-year-old student teacher in the village of Umvuma.
▪ I left school in 1941, and went for a year as a student teacher in my father's school.
training
▪ This had implications for teacher training, which the Kingman Report spells out in detail.
▪ I have talked so far about teacher training and education without distinguishing between pre-service and in-service programmes.
▪ Both interventions involved minimal, project oriented teacher training and were circumscribed, involving three to five hours' delivery time overall.
▪ Quite a few have gone on to postgraduate teacher training to teach in the secondary sector.
▪ This is despite considerable efforts to create innovative ways of developing teacher training in the post-independence period.
▪ We will undertake reform of the teacher training system to make it more effective in developing classroom skills.
▪ Access to teacher training, and training in technology, nursing, and other areas is provided through one-year courses.
▪ What then does teacher education involve and how does it differ as a concept from teacher training?
■ VERB
help
▪ The video tape library at the Metro East Center helps teachers to see and to do.
▪ To help you understand college teachers better. 3.
▪ Counselors and psychotherapists can help teachers and parents develop the skills necessary to assist work-inhibited students.
▪ The greater part of the grant has in the past been to help finance our teacher training.
▪ The class worked much like a study hall, but with just a few students helped by one teacher.
▪ Throughout the year, the education officer will deal with any student problems which arise and help to find teachers for colleges.
▪ Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have helped teachers at the school incorporate other elements of successful schools.
provide
▪ Three day courses are provided yearly for teachers with disabled children in their classes.
▪ Some state laws specifically provide that tenured teachers can be dismissed for economic reasons.
▪ Community organisations can also provide Work Experience and teacher secondment placements, as well as support for curriculum development.
▪ What notice must be provided to a tenured teacher prior to dismissal?
▪ The research findings will provide practical assistance for teachers in the running of schools.
▪ What kind of hearing must be provided before a tenured teacher can be dismissed?
▪ Establishing that networking systems, relying on advanced computer technology, can provide individual service to teachers and special learners. 2.
qualify
▪ The University of Manchester is embarking upon an initial course which will qualify bilingual teachers for the primary phase.
▪ Enroll in a one-week intensive course in scientific remote viewing taught by a qualified teacher.
▪ The grounds were that he had used up his grant entitlement in qualifying to be a teacher.
▪ Television broadcasting, it turned out, was no substitute for qualified teachers.
▪ Luring qualified teachers is also more difficult now than in the past.
▪ Since qualifying as a Medau teachers in 1968 she has taught regular classes for adults, children and the mentally handicapped.
teach
▪ Those of you who are teaching and training teachers for school, I would invite to rebellion.
▪ School officials treated his response as a refusal to teach and hired another teacher to replace him.
▪ Some were dreadful, so he developed tricks for playing them not taught by conventional teachers.
▪ Also typical of Black Mountain was the assumption that students had things to teach their teachers.
▪ Often, these strategies were invented by the pupils rather than taught by the teacher.
▪ Enroll in a one-week intensive course in scientific remote viewing taught by a qualified teacher.
train
▪ He realised dimly that if he had volunteered to go on training all night his teachers would not have objected.
▪ With a $ 4 million federal grant, Sweetwater is beginning to train 900 teachers in the use of computers.
▪ I lived in a village prior to training as a teacher.
▪ The future of our primary schools is rooted in the institutions which train our teachers.
▪ The fact that many of them have not been trained as teachers is another important limiting factor.
▪ Teacher training colleges which are to train teachers in these subjects will also require funds for equipment.
▪ Although assigned as teachers, only a minority of them had been professionally trained as teachers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a practising doctor/lawyer/teacher etc
▪ Morwenna Wood a practising doctor is being treated in Oxford's JOhn radcliffe hospital.
acting manager/head teacher/director etc
artist/actor/teacher etc manqué
▪ In between travel trips Wilcock ran into a woman at a party who lived with an artist manqué, Walter Bowart.
be wearing your teacher's/salesman's etc hat
born leader/musician/teacher etc
▪ Because Karajan was a born teacher, he was always interested in young musicians.
career soldier/teacher etc
▪ A career soldier, he had died leading his men into battle at Spion Kop during the Boer War.
▪ A Kurator is similar to a specialist careers teacher with additional contributions to make after school.
▪ For career soldiers like Jack it was a depressing time.
▪ They liaise with secondary school careers teachers, and also with the employers in an area.
infant school/teacher/class etc
▪ Ah, but here was a job: the infant teacher was called away for half an hour.
▪ An infant school built in 1840 served both Seaton and Sigglesthorne.
▪ At this time Syeduz was nearly six and in his second term in the infant school.
▪ Children attended infant school until they were seven.
▪ Read in studio An infant school has reopened after being severely damaged by arsonists.
▪ The limit for first-year infants classes will be 27 and for classes of children of mixed ages, 24.
▪ This infant school was sometimes part of a junior school which catered for seven to eleven year olds.
nursery education/unit/teacher etc
▪ A nursery unit was built in 1977 and has two teachers.
▪ Are these the partnership circumstances in which we want children to receive nursery education?
▪ First, a nursery education for all three and four year olds whose parents wish by the year 2000.
▪ He is always pleased to see his nursery teacher but is terrified that she will think he is a naughty boy.
▪ In one instance a nursery teacher felt that she should praise a little boy every time he spoke to her.
▪ Is he further aware that a problem exists in finding suitable financial resources for nursery education?
▪ Keith Mitchell, director of education, has recommended consideration be given to the new nursery units at the meeting.
▪ Must they wait until they are four, and then go into part-time nursery education?
remedial course/class/teacher etc
▪ About one quarter of entering college students now take at least one remedial course.
▪ Middle-class children thus tend to fill the honors and advanced-placement classes while poor children take the general and remedial classes.
▪ Most of these students take remedial classes in all three fields.
▪ People were appointed to co-ordinate the work of remedial teachers in schools.
▪ Some run efficient remedial courses, which could surely be used for youngsters who had taken a broader sixth-form course.
▪ The Association has branches throughout the country that provide information and hold remedial classes.
▪ Their placement in a remedial course confirmed their suspicions.
▪ These students traverse course after remedial course, becoming increasingly turned off to writing, increasingly convinced that they are hopelessly inadequate.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a conference for teachers of English
▪ I remember having some pretty awful teachers when I was at school.
▪ Mrs. Sherwood was my first-grade teacher.
▪ She's a teacher in the high school.
▪ The school doesn't have enough French teachers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But my teacher writes the stuff on the blackboard so quickly and then erases it before I can copy it all.
▪ Edward Cody, a World Civilization teacher, kept a map of the world with pins marking his students' birthplaces.
▪ Figure 7.2 shows that as the age of the pupil increases, so the proportion of women teachers decreases.
▪ It is a false hierarchy to pose teachers as more important than other staff.
▪ Satisfied with what be heard, he asked the teacher to be an intermediary between himself and the Kangs.
▪ Some governing bodies have been sensitive to this danger and have established committees and structures involving teachers other than the teacher-governors.
▪ The teacher's aid can give valuable assistance in producing specialised materials under guidance of the teacher or adviser.
▪ This year, the district hired 523 certified teachers.