Sayings About An Effective Teacher

#1. If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.

Melinda Gates

#2. 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

#3. Being an effective teacher is a high calling.

Charlie Munger

#4. The better teachers recognize that by freeing yourself of the rigid ego identity habit, you actually strengthen the resilient, flexible, creative ego, and you then can be more effective in helping others, and creative in whatever work you do.

Robert Thurman

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

Joyce Cary

#6. Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

William Haley

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

B.F. Skinner

#8. On the other hand, the Prince had proved a much more effective teacher than Snape so far.

J.K. Rowling

#9. So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem.

William H. Whyte

#10. All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#11. Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#12. 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

#13. Adversity is an effective, thorough and highly personalized teacher.

Ralph Marston

#14. People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

Marian Wright Edelman

#15. Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders, is take a picture of The Lion King for instance, and a teacher might say, 'Do you know that the music for this movie was written by a gay man?' The message is: I'm better at what I do, because I'm gay.

Michele Bachmann

#16. To compare is the very nature of a mind that is not awake to discover what is true.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#17. We're often intimidated in battle because we are uncertain of our faith. We must remember we don't stand in victory because of our faith. We stand in victory because of our God. Faith in faith is pointless. Faith in a living, active God moves mountains.

Beth Moore

#18. If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.

George Friedman

#19. I'm always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don't get told.

Lauren Myracle

#20. Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.

Michael Bennet

#21. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

Ayn Rand

#22. Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.

Wendy Kopp

#23. I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

Rand Paul

#24. The teacher's first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It's influence is indirect, but unless it be well done there will be no effective and permanent results of any kind, physical, intellectual or spiritual.

Maria Montessori

#25. You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.

Zig Ziglar

#26. 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

#27. Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time.

Susan Mann

#28. I am not arrogant to claim that I can achieve the impossible, but I am not ignorant enough not to try to

Shane Porteous

#29. Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

Wendy Kopp

#30. The most effective reading teachers are teachers who read. According to Morrison, Jacobs, and Swinyard (1999), "Perhaps the most influential teacher behavior to influence students' literacy development is personal reading, both in and out of school" (p. 81).

Donalyn Miller

#31. 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

#32. The use of online assessment tools is giving teachers a more fine-grained understanding of individual students' skills, and assisting them to determine the necessary next steps to enable them to achieve their own learning goals. We are seeing more effective differentiation in classrooms as a result.

Susan Mann

#33. Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

John Wooden

#34. Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.

Hillary Clinton

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi