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.

UNESCO: Adult Literacy Tutors Association (ALTA)

He got the idea from the kids he was teaching at an after-school music class in one of the tougher neighborhoods of north Philadelphia.

NPR: DJ Diplo Melds Eclectic Sounds

Growing up in London's working-class East End, the son of a teaching-assistant mother and truck-driver father, Mr. Marsan says he knew he wanted to become an actor from an early age.

WSJ: Eddie Marsan: Getting Into Character

Ms Carr, a teaching assistant in the girls' class last term, was arrested on suspicion of murdering them.

BBC: Agony of Holly and Jessica's parents

Epilogue: Less than a year after he quit in a huff, Bob Jr. was the CEO of ExecuCopters, and pops was teaching a class on running family businesses at the Stern School of Business.

FORBES: Head Coach

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.

ECONOMIST: School curriculum