And inspections of the underperforming ones often find that they make insufficient use of whole-class teaching, phonics, or other traditional methods.
Before Plowden, whole-class teaching got a bad name because it often led to teachers droning on while their pupils dropped off.
Mr Galton reckons that 35% of the primary-school day is now spent on whole-class teaching, up from 15% a few years ago.
Ofsted has been campaigning for schools to make more use of whole-class teaching, whose neglect it regards as one of the reasons for under-achievement in other subjects.
He argues that excessive use of whole-class teaching might mean pupils spending so long being lectured about mathematics that they never get to solve equations for themselves.
"The NUT will not accept unqualified people having responsibility for whole class teaching as currently proposed by the government, " said general secretary Doug McAvoy in response to the ministerial speech.
This semester I found myself standing at the front of a class, teaching sessions on analyzing funds.
These countries all have high aspirations, highly competitive school systems, and an emphasis on whole-class, formal teaching.
Zuckerberg based his newly-public stance on personal experience with the middle-school entrepreneurship after-school class he started teaching earlier this year.
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In teaching maths, for instance, both those countries spend more time on basic arithmetic than on deeper mathematical ideas, emphasise mental arithmetic, rely on standard teaching manuals and favour whole-class (as opposed to group) teaching.
There is much more to providing programs in the workplace than just teaching a class.
"I cannot answer the phone all the time, " she says, especially when she is teaching a class.
He'd passed away from a heart attack while teaching his class the literary nuances of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury.
Anyone teaching a class would reasonably worry that students using Facebook were gossiping rather than learning useful information from their network of friends.
When professors are teaching a class, the sessions are automatically recorded.
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Teaching the class at Columbia created a strong incentive to do so, and this year I had the benefit of having Jeff Perkowski, my nephew who is a senior at University of Virginia, in Beijing on an internship.
But when the Durham study looked at some of the most common ways schools are spending the money - educational trips, cutting class sizes, employing teaching assistants - it found little evidence they were likely to raise standards.
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She says after teaching a good class or when she is feeling powerful she feels as tall as they are.
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Back in 1986 in Colombia, Beto Perez was teaching an aerobics class.
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The first came from Troy Henikoff, an amazingly successful Chicago entrepreneur (now director of TechStars Chicago) who was teaching an entrepreneurship class at Northwestern.
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The use of familiar, real-life materials helps students to feel more comfortable in class, and the structured teaching of literacy skills gradually improves their reading and writing skills.
But since January 2003 Mr Badnarik has been criss-crossing the country, making speeches and teaching a freelance class on the United States constitution to anyone who will listen.
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One of them relates how he was approached by a securities class action lawyer when he was teaching at the University of Chicago.
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She also says that schools might choose to make a priority of teaching quality rather than smaller class sizes.
Ms Carr, a teaching assistant in the girls' class last term, was arrested on suspicion of murdering them.
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