Andy Hargreaves Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Home

• Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Teaching

• Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

  Andy Hargreaves (2001). “Changing Teachers, Changing Times: Teachers' Work and Culture in the Postmodern Age”, p.165, A&C Black

• We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Real

• What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Teaching

• On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Educational

• The teacher has more power than the Minister.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

  Andy Hargreaves, Roy Evans (1997). “Beyond educational reform: bringing teachers back in”, Open University

• Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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