noun
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
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
■ ADJECTIVE
effective
▪ Or, in an established school where they may not be using the most effective language teaching methods.
▪ In particular, there appears to be a paucity of effective teaching on the theology of music and its significance in worship.
▪ The effective teaching of history requires first and foremost a healthy environment in which to flourish.
▪ For effective teaching, the confidence and co-operation of the patient are essential.
▪ This may well mean developing the range of presentational skills which have been part and parcel of effective classroom teaching for generations.
▪ This process of continuous evaluation, if carried out conscientiously, will lead to more effective teaching.
▪ Flooding schools with teachers in itself solves nothing, and may merely disrupt effective solo teaching.
▪ Allocation of time and facilities with ample free time for discussion is essential for effective team teaching.
formal
▪ What was different, however, was that formal teaching was offered when it was required, not because of a timetable.
▪ This may be because no formal teaching sessions took place, and no specific assessment of skills occurred.
▪ Decide what teaching resources you will need for the formal teaching sessions.
▪ There was seldom any time for formal teaching sessions, and students received most of their practical tuition from learners and auxiliaries.
▪ Subject specialization and formal teaching would be undermined.
religious
▪ There are numerous examples of the manner in which distorted religious teaching has done harm.
▪ Examples are constitutions, revered leaders, widely respected media or books, and religious teachings.
▪ It is not surprising to find, therefore, that the womb has a key role in many religious teachings.
▪ In most religious teachings it is said that no lasting realization can be achieved without many years of practice.
▪ The child starts off with an in-built certainty that sooner or later his intelligence will clash with his religious teaching.
▪ Opposition to contraception is often reinforced by religious teachings and the fear that contraceptives will encourage wives to be unfaithful.
▪ Inpart this reflected religious scruples since mechanical explanations for our behaviour were incompatible with religious teaching.
traditional
▪ Students are invited to undertake a programme combining, concurrently, the traditional teaching practice with a social work placement.
▪ That it turned aside from the traditional teaching of scholasticism and theology is certain.
▪ The current education debate also seems to be pushing for a return to traditional teaching methods.
▪ The courses provided at Sunderland, for example, combine traditional teaching with vocational training.
▪ Mr Lang is understood to favour a strong emphasis on more traditional teaching methods, stressing discipline and focus.
▪ Again, traditional teaching has tended to dissociate grammar from context and to deal in isolated sentences.
▪ The lecture Lectures are one of the traditional forms of teaching in higher education.
■ NOUN
force
▪ To do so effectively requires a commitment from the teaching force - from headteacher to probationer.
▪ It could be that this development marks the beginning of a teaching force which is professional in reality as well as in name.
▪ This saves on training facilities and teacher trainers and also helps fill the gaps in the ranks of the existing teaching force.
▪ Rather it points to the fact that there has been a subtle change in the composition of the teaching force.
▪ The teaching force then has the task of meeting the criteria established by these guidelines.
▪ Creating a teaching force which is adequate to the rapidly growing system has been another problem.
▪ Clearly, therefore, they constitute, and will continue to do so, a very important element in the teaching force.
▪ Is it the fault of an overburdened teaching force, for whom full time class teaching is the norm?
history
▪ No doubt there will be many further developments, but already there is a great range of material available for history teaching.
▪ Museums, historic buildings and historical sites and places of historic interest are key resources for history teaching.
▪ Classroom management for the use of computers A new style of classroom management may be required when using computers in history teaching.
▪ It is hoped that the study will be of interest to all those who are involved in current developments in history teaching.
▪ Role-play and drama Role-play or drama also has an important place in history teaching with young children.
▪ Documents Written sources have become almost indispensable for today's history teaching.
▪ Databases One of the earliest uses of computers in history teaching involved the use of database software.
▪ Museum loan services to schools are another useful resource for history teaching.
hospital
▪ It is the first medical technique of its kind to be practised by a major Belfast teaching hospital.
▪ Edinburgh is well provided with clinical teaching hospitals.
▪ It operates from a large teaching hospital which until recently had no community links.
▪ In Dublin, for example, two teaching hospitals were closed in 1987.
▪ What these men gained in return was the prestige and professional recognition that came from practising at one of the teaching hospitals.
▪ Setting - Clinical investigation unit of teaching hospital recruiting from diabetes clinics of five teaching hospitals and one district general hospital.
▪ For months, the spin doctors relied on the training imparted at such teaching hospitals as the Downing Street Policy Unit.
▪ Setting - Clinical investigation unit of teaching hospital recruiting from diabetes clinics of five teaching hospitals and one district general hospital.
language
▪ The books demystify language teaching theory, and provide invaluable background knowledge which will extend professional skills.
▪ This is the starting-point for behavioural approaches to language teaching.
▪ Using an integrated programme of modules, the programme achieved outstanding results in language teaching.
▪ Is there any place for practice exercises in a communicative approach to language teaching?
▪ He has expressed scepticism about the significance of linguistics for language teaching.
▪ Vocabulary Vocabulary provides a clear and comprehensive overview of this important area of language teaching.
▪ Series which are marketed for other fields of training can sometimes be used effectively in language teaching.
▪ Many approaches to second language teaching have been tried so far, each with differing degrees of success.
material
▪ Teachers in a cluster group might share the work of producing teaching materials or assessment materials.
▪ Earlier publication will make timetabling easier, and reduce the pressure on staff who need to review and develop teaching materials.
▪ One other possibility that is sometimes considered if a camera is available in an institution is local production of teaching materials.
▪ It is easy to get teaching materials wrong, difficult to get them right.
▪ The Department is committed to teaching materials in an engineering context and much of its research reflects this attitude.
▪ The national clearinghouses co-operate to some extent but largely through exchanges of information and teaching material.
▪ The larger format will offer at 3-4 levels a range of self-study language teaching materials.
method
▪ Nurses in Training Questions: Do nurse teachers take time out to discuss their teaching methods with their peers?
▪ This is achieved in a variety of ways, including the design of the courses and the teaching methods adopted.
▪ It was interested in curriculum development and course planning, research and staff training, resources and teaching methods.
▪ Learners can evaluate a film not only for the content, but also for the teaching method.
▪ Well, clearly she must give thought to how she could change her teaching methods.
▪ This was evidenced by the continuation of her long-established teaching methods and forms of classroom organisation between sessions with the advisory teacher.
▪ The first consisted of an analysis of curriculum content and teaching methods conducted by questionnaire.
▪ Language teaching methods had 50 and 125 hours respectively, with 20 and 90 respectively offered to Language in Education.
post
▪ Some former course members have since obtained fulltime teaching posts in adult education.
▪ Local Management of Schools also raises the problem of how extensively and at what costs a teaching post should be advertised?
▪ Julie Jack, emeritus fellow in philosophy, was appointed to a teaching post at King's College, Cambridge.
▪ His father had been accepted for a teaching post.
▪ And several teaching posts may also go.
▪ Everyone in the profession is aware that some people can be absent from teaching posts and not be missed.
▪ A prestigious teaching post at Winchester had been terminated abruptly some years before, and Hugo had failed to hold another since.
practice
▪ Term 5 contains a block teaching practice, and thus the course has a programme allocation of five weeks.
▪ Parental involvement is crucial, both in terms of political campaigning and in terms of developing relevant language teaching practice.
▪ The model that we have developed is to attach students in pairs to a general practice tutor in a teaching practice.
▪ This effectively reduces the teaching practice experience to years four and six.
▪ Students are invited to undertake a programme combining, concurrently, the traditional teaching practice with a social work placement.
▪ It is easy to understand the excitement that such new teaching practice could generate.
▪ I expect that I shall think of the term's work as a preparation for the second teaching practice.
▪ They had 100 hours and 120 hours of teaching practice respectively.
profession
▪ The teaching profession is in disarray, speaking with no coherent voice.
▪ And that the Department could make better use of the great store of experience within the teaching profession during the consultation process.
▪ In 1904 he left the teaching profession to become missioner to the deaf in Carlisle for the next thirty-one years.
▪ It is vital that the teaching profession has full confidence in the processes of career development and advancement.
▪ Despite her failure to enter the teaching profession, she's now published a book promoting phonetic teaching.
▪ Friends with children and those in the teaching profession all wanted to visit us then, in the school holiday time.
▪ I look forward to that beginning to apply to the teaching profession.
▪ But in the late 1960s the relative autonomy of the teaching profession over the curriculum came increasingly under attack.
programme
▪ Co-operation with teaching staff or subject departments in the use of the library as part of a specific teaching programme. 4.
▪ Step-by-step suggestions for incorporating the video into the teaching programme are provided.
▪ If you are considering going on secondment during term time it is obviously important to minimise disruption to the teaching programme.
▪ We were expected to plan, implement, and evaluate a short teaching programme.
▪ The successful candidate will be expected to register for a higher degree and will also contribute to the teaching programme.
▪ The great success of a teaching programme in chemical theory was the Periodic Table of Dmitry Mendeleev, first published in 1869.
▪ Adapted in various ways, they formed part of the teaching programme for mainstream and special pupils for many years.
▪ In cases where students achieve all objectives satisfactorily, step six provides information for step two of the next related teaching programme.
quality
▪ Official explanations of deficiencies in teaching quality have tended to equate such deficiencies with tendencies to adopt transmission patterns of teaching.
▪ What explains these seeming deficits in teaching quality?
▪ They appeal to the characteristics of individuals - to competence, skill and personal qualities - as determinants of teaching quality.
▪ What alternative framework is there for analysing teaching quality?
▪ Poor teaching quality, it is implied, results from an absence of the required competences and qualities.
▪ It is as if teaching quality is only an issue in subjects like mathematics and science.
▪ What teaching quality might look like in drama, physical education, music and art, for instance, scarcely gets a mention.
science
▪ The first is the lack of experiments - some might call it a betrayal of science teaching.
▪ The older universities of Oxford and Cambridge were also persuaded to modernize their science teaching in the 1870s.
▪ Present science teaching generally assumes implicitly that pupils possess the reasoning patterns.
▪ But the department's bootstrap operation did help create science teaching in Britain.
▪ It recommended expansion of universities' science teaching and the creation of colleges of advanced technology.
▪ In other words, what are the areas of weakness in science teaching, and why?
staff
▪ It enables governors to draw upon the creativity, expertise, experience and commitment of the teaching staff.
▪ It is also possible for the teaching staff to obtain a record of the student's progress.
▪ Students of Belgrade University went on strike on June 14, supported in their demands by the teaching staff.
▪ They had taken on extra teaching staff.
▪ Co-operation with teaching staff or subject departments in the use of the library as part of a specific teaching programme. 4.
▪ The teaching staff of the faculty of divinity was not - with one exception, Hoskyns.
▪ Tutorials or seminars for teaching staff on the library's resources.
▪ Terms of office Field Chairs are elected from the teaching staff members of the committee by the staff members.
strategy
▪ The commended approach to teaching strategies was highly partisan in respect of the particular kinds of practice which were endorsed.
▪ Thus tutorial support of students' progress remains an important teaching strategy.
▪ Groups of sources Groups of documents offer even more versatile and creative teaching strategies.
▪ Later in this paper I intend to outline the curriculum and teaching strategies I hope will be retained within the national curriculum.
▪ The need for a review of teaching strategies in the light of the National Curriculum requirements is evident.
▪ It therefore needs to be incorporated systematically into teaching strategies and practices at all levels.
style
▪ His humorous and anecdotal but scholarly teaching style did not go unnoticed.
▪ So, in our example, it would be the experimental group which was exposed to the new teaching style.
▪ It may be possible to identify two or more teaching styles based on different frequencies of use of the activity groups.
▪ Choice will have implications both for the timetable and for teaching styles.
▪ From the 1950s to the 1990s radical changes in teaching styles reflect major changes in social and cultural values.
▪ His suggestion is that teaching styles are related to the poor language performance.
▪ For different teaching styles and situations certain combinations of these variables may prove more effective than others.
▪ They have helped to defuse the arguments about teaching style and concentrate attention upon content and delivery.
■ VERB
develop
▪ Preparation for instruction is again minimal, but with help from the trained staff the senior learner can develop a teaching role.
▪ Earlier publication will make timetabling easier, and reduce the pressure on staff who need to review and develop teaching materials.
▪ There is great potential in developing the teaching role of clinical practitioners, with benefits for both the individual and the service.
▪ In Further and Higher Education, no access courses specifically targeted to develop teaching and training in community languages are available.
learn
▪ The operational function is the provision of teaching and learning opportunities for students.
▪ Its main focus is foreign languages: teaching, learning, research and policy.
▪ There are implications for language teaching and learning in all of them.
▪ It is therefore a continuous enquiry into the relationship between teaching and learning as it is enacted in particular classroom contexts.
▪ All of the sixteen teachers in the school were experienced in teaching children with learning difficulties.
▪ One of the difficulties in teaching, or learning about, electronic publishing seems to be identifying the scope of the subject.
▪ New styles Course are being broken down into modules and a variety of new teaching and learning styles have to be employed.
provide
▪ The need for live online instruction has been recognized by systems operators, who have provided various aids for teaching.
▪ Bright new facilities and therapies were provided, plus enlightened teaching and special care.
▪ These will provide background information and teaching aids.
▪ Programmes can be designed to provide comprehensive teaching, drawing on all nursing-related disciplines.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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.
the teaching/scientific/criminal etc fraternity
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Andrea took some time off from teaching when her children were small.
▪ Ann's planning to go into teaching after she graduates from college.
▪ He left teaching and took a job as a truck driver.
▪ the teachings of Confucius
▪ What made you go into teaching?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As well as his teaching, and a planned series of concerts in the autumn, Mozart was also working on a new opera.
▪ He has expressed scepticism about the significance of linguistics for language teaching.
▪ The School of Geography has a range of micro-computing facilities available for both teaching and research use.
▪ The very phrase implies exclusion, segregation, a particular approach to learning and teaching.
▪ These will provide background information and teaching aids.
▪ Until recently, graduate teaching was a very marginal activity.