Though schools try to utilize teachers as mentors more and more often these days, compensating teachers for long term investments in curriculum development and alignment is still fairly rare (though to be fair, it seems to be on the increase as well, from what I can tell anecdotally).

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Tales are often told of teachers inspiring students, but I find it is more often the other way around: my students have inspired me, each and every day.

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And he is willing to use federal handouts as an enticement to states to adopt more exacting evaluation schemes for teachers, a tactic often attacked by conservatives.

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Reports from kindergarten and preschool teachers further indicate that former RTLP participants often have more advanced interpersonal skills and are more enthusiastic to participate in learning activities than their peers.

UNESCO: Reading Together

The pupils often have more cash in their pockets than teachers get in a month.

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But these teachers are not only jacks-of-all-subjects, but often novices: senior teachers get first pick of the more popular urban jobs.

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In a speech on Tuesday, Mr Gove said more male teachers were needed, especially in primary schools "to provide children who often lack male role models at home with male authority figures who can display both strength and sensitivity".

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Keith was a loner who was often bullied and the older he got, the more difficult he found it to accept the teachers' authoritarian rule.

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