Quotes About Effective Teaching

#1. People who smile tend to manage, teach and sell more effectively, and to raise happier children. There's far more information in a smile than a frown. That's why encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.

James V. McConnell

#2. Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.

C.J. Mahaney

#3. I believe that teaching is a creative art in which evidence based knowledge is applied toward meeting the learning goals of learners. I believe that effective teaching is often the spark that ignites the imagination, possibility, and promise for learners, including the teacher.

Barbara Paterson

#4. Just remember, quality assignments are the hallmark of effective teaching; teaching made up mostly of testing does not improve student learning.

Eleanor Dougherty

#5. The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.

Clive James

#6. Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

William Glasser

#7. There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.

D. A. Carson

#8. After that, we had no

Thomas Wolfe

#9. The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

Joyce Cary

#10. Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

B.F. Skinner

#11. Since God alone provides the means for the successful accomplishment of any task, it seems evident that a person needs to be called by God to be an effective teacher. Without this call to teaching, how will anyone be able to put up with everything that teachers face daily?

Basil Moreau

#12. 'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.

Alton Brown

#13. Scientific thinking explores and redraws the world, gradually offering us better and better images of it, teaching us to think in ever more effective ways. Science is a continual exploration of ways of thinking. Its

Carlo Rovelli

#14. How does a weaker minority dominate a physically superior majority? In my research I learned that this is accomplished by destroying the slave's mind. More effective than whips and guns was the simple act of outlawing the teaching of slaves to read and to write.

Kyle Baker

#15. I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.

Aretha Franklin

#16. Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what is going on in the field.

Alan Tower Waterman

#17. You could say that Facebook is doing a far more effective job than religion at teaching us to 'love thy neighbor,' connecting us with random strangers and 'friends' from distant lands.

Gemini Adams

#18. Effective discipline means that we're not only stopping a bad behavior or promoting a good one, but also teaching skills and nurturing the connections in our children's brains that will help them make better decisions and handle themselves well in the future.

Daniel J. Siegel

#19. I have a terrible memory.

Dorothy Allison

#20. Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

Horace Mann

#21. A relationship is a process. If you have nothing to learn - you have a slave to teach. 's why schools are effective.

Will Advise

#22. When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'

Jack McDevitt

#23. The most effective way to see if you understand a concept is to first review it and they try to explain it in your own words as if you were teaching an imaginary class or a five year old.

Sahil Bora

#24. We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.

Adam Savage

#25. I never meant to be but a dreamer.

Fernando Pessoa

#26. never try to understand a girl: either you go crazy or fall in love with her.

Smita Kaushik

#27. Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others - that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly, we're seeking security. By constant communion with others we hope we shall be able to accept the horrible fact of our total solitude.

Ingmar Bergman

#28. Playing drums or music, being a musician, is inside of you. So you would always see me tapping on something, playing on tables ... I never felt the need to pull out drums.

Eric Hernandez

#29. Seventy-seven percent of teachers admit that their teaching would be more effective if they did not have to spend so much time dealing with disruptive students (Public Agenda, 2004).

Lee Canter

#30. I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.

Patton Oswalt

#31. Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.

Alison Gopnik

#32. Effective Peer Coaches emphasize inquiry over advocacy. Too much advocacy can produce learned helplessness. Inquiry builds capacity to improve teaching and learning by helping teachers to be more effective at designing and implementing learning activities that meet the needs of their students.

Lester Joseph Foltos

#33. The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the student, the content, and the teacher. But the next best answer is, 'Students teaching other students.'

Wilbert J. McKeachie

#34. It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did.

Drew Brees

#35. Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

Edsger Dijkstra

#36. I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#37. Wonder Woman is not faking it. Wonder Woman means it. Wonder Woman is all swagger and badassery. Compliment

Shonda Rhimes

#38. The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi