He was a guest instructor to my sniper class, a good man, and a great teacher.
Nationally, there is no consensus on the best way to determine what makes a great teacher.
With audiences in the millions, they are helping redefine what it is to be a great teacher.
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Each of them succeeded because they had a great teacher, a great mentor, or a great partner.
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And a great teacher offers potentially an escape for a child who is dreaming beyond his circumstances.
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But more important than paychecks, a great teacher instills in his students character and a passion for self-instruction.
What distinguishes a great teacher from the ordinary has always been a mystery.
Education expert Eric Hanushek estimates that the difference between a great teacher and bad teacher in a child's lifetime earnings is hundreds of thousands of dollars.
To do this, a great teacher must have intellectual curiosity.
If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.
In struggling urban schools in particular, students "can't afford to have a single great teacher cut in a way that maybe a kid in a suburban school district could, " he said.
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He was an inspiration for us, a great teacher.
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The great teacher thought this would make it plain that the real problem with international arms treaties was not a lack of verification but a total lack of penalties once violations have been detected.
And I think they would both be tremendously proud of their daughter -- a great lawyer, a great teacher, and a devoted public servant who I am confident will make an outstanding Supreme Court justice.
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We recognize the impact a great teacher can make, and Partners in Learning is focused on empowering more than 8 million educators in over 114 countries to creatively and effectively use technology in their curriculum to help improve the way students learn.
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On a call with journalists, Gates pointed out that both experience (as measured by years on the job) and master's degrees (which carry great weight in teacher hiring) show no bearing on whether someone will be a great teacher or a mediocre one.
And because a great teacher is the single most important factor in a great education, we're asking states to focus on teacher effectiveness and to make it possible for professionals -- like many of the people in this room -- to bring their experience and enthusiasm into the classroom.
Kenny has been and continues to be a great mentor, teacher, advisor and a valuable asset to the team.
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Which is what happened with my great and wise teacher, my wireless router.
Helping students to be creators rather than just consumers is part of what it means to be a great 21st century teacher.
Mr Gates pretended to release a few malarious mosquitoes into the conference hall, but the main part of his talk was to ask what qualities it takes to make a teacher great, and to bemoan the fact that so little scientific research has been carried out into this vital and rather obvious question.
The teacher isn't great, he swallows his words in French and spends his time scratching his head as if he were puzzled, but the textbook isn't bad and since the start of the year I've made huge progress.
Head teacher Neil Hodgkins said it was a great initiative because hungry children have caused problems.
Head teacher Nicola Harwood said it was "great news" but she hoped it meant the school could be completely rebuilt.
Mr Hole said the head teacher had "steered the college with great commitment" while dealing with "some difficult circumstances" regarding finance and staffing at the school and also dealing with a "major upheaval in his family life".
Apart from her job as a teacher and researcher, Dajani devotes a great deal of her time to the We Love Reading program, which she founded just a few years ago, which I wrote about in the Spring, and which is already expanding into countries all over the Middle East.
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