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Teachers' Union of Ireland

The TUI is affiliated to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) and is represented on various education governmental bodies such as National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA), Further Education and Training Awards Council FETAC, Higher Education and Training Awards Council HETAC and Vocational Education Committees.


Andrés Pérez de Ribas

In the same year he was sent to undertake the Christianization of the Ahome and Suaqui of northern Sinaloa, of whom the former were friendly and anxious for teachers, while the latter had just been brought to submission after a hard campaign.

Araksia Gyulzadyan

She finished the primary school in her native town and moved to Yerevan in 1926, where Romanos Melikian became one of her teachers.

Bennett Joshua Davlin

Davlin graduated from the Episcopal School of Acadiana in Cade, Louisiana and attributed his independent thinking to the amazing teachers at that institution.

Bob Graham Center for Public Service

The Bob Graham Center’s Civil Debate Wall—popularly known as ‘The Wall’—is a series of interconnected touch-screen devices that allow students, teachers and citizens to share ideas and solutions to some of the most pressing political questions facing the nation.

Buddhism in Brazil

It maintains affiliated groups in Belo Horizonte, São Paulo and Curitiba, and has invited a large number of international teachers through the years.

Charles Beck

In 1830, he and two other teachers established a school at Philipstown, New York, on the Hudson River, opposite West Point.

Chartwell Dutiro

He used to play in Ashburton's Methodist Church Hall every Tuesday night where he led a Shona choir made up of local people, from farmers and teachers to business people, not to mention the landlady of the local B&B.

Colin Cheong

The older of two children born to two teachers, Colin Cheong attended Victoria School, Anderson Secondary School, Hwa Chong Junior College, Ngee Ann Polytechnic and National University of Singapore.

Davidson Day School

Davidson Day is less than a mile from Davidson College, and many of the current teachers are Davidson alums.

Debelah Morgan

Debelah tops off her list of famous teachers with vocal coach of the stars Seth Riggs (creator of the speech level singing method).

Dud Bascomb

He played piano as a child but settled on trumpet, and first played with Hawkins at the Alabama State Teachers' School (now Alabama State University) in 1932, where Hawkins led the Bama State Collegians band.

Foni Tissen

In September 1942, after taking part in the strike against the German occupation, he was deported together with seven other teachers to the Hinzert concentration camp where the inhuman conditions were to exert a profound influence on his work, calling for an ironic level of introspection.

Francis Douglas Memorial College

Teachers such as Peter Ingram, Tim Stuck, Steve Simpson have taught sport to the students and there have been notable sporting students such as All Blacks Conrad Smith and Beauden Barrett

Francisco del Paso y Troncoso

It is believed that he had among his teachers Don Gabino Barreda, and he had initially decided to pursue a career in medicine.

George Mosse

Mosse attended the Quaker Bootham School in York, England, whose teachers began to stimulate his intellectual curiosity, and where, according to his autobiography, he became aware of his homosexuality.

George Sheldon Johnsen

He studied drawing with George Bridgman and William Charles McNulty at the Art Students League of New York, and painting at Williamson Teachers College under the tutelage of Jack Perlmutter.

Glen Frey

Glen Frey was an American college football head coach who holds the distinction as being the New Jersey State Teachers College at Glassboro (now called Rowan University) program's first head coach.

Glenda Ritz

She ran what was seen as a grassroots campaign, relying on support from the Indiana State Teachers Association and local teachers unions.

Helsingin yhteislyseo

Helsingin yhteislyseo (HYL) is a school in Kontula, Helsinki Finland consisting of a lower secondary school and an upper secondary school with over 50 teachers and 700 students in total.

History of Wagga Wagga

In 1971, following pressure from the Wagga Wagga community for a university, the teachers' college became the Riverina College of Advanced Education and was relocated to a site adjacent to the Wagga Agricultural College, with whom it amalgamated in 1975.

International Violin Competition Henri Marteau

The 2011 jury consists of highly respected violinists/violin teachers from all over the world, headed by violinist and conductor Gilbert Varga.

James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey

He attended a Methodist school in Cape Coast, where the teachers noted that he was precocious, already studying Greek and Latin, and he subsequently rose to become the school's headmaster.

Jibou Botanical Garden

The works for the organization of the Botanical Garden from Jibou started between the years 1959-1968, when Vasile Fati (1932-2007), a biology teacher, with the students and with the other teachers manages to prove that the parks around Wesselényi Castle, where the high school was functioning is appropriate for a botanical garden.

Joseph Bruchac

He holds the ranks of pengawal and pendekar in Pencak Silat, the martial art of Indonesia, and has studied various forms of T'ai chi, capoeira, kung fu wushu, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with numerous teachers.

Joseph Kehrein

After studying philology at the University of Giessen from 1831 to 1834, he taught at the gymnasium of Darmstadt, 1835–1837, at that of Mainz, 1837–1845, was prorector at the newly founded gymnasium of Hadamar in Nassau, 1845–1846, professor at the same place, 1846–1855, director of the Catholic teachers' seminary at Montabaur, 1855–1876, and at the same time director of the Realschule at the same place, 1855–1866.

Kasama College of Education

Kasama College of Education, originally known as Kasama Teachers Training college (KTTC), is a government tertiary learning institution training teachers at Diploma level to handle grades 1-7 in Zambian schools.

Mahabir Pun

Born and raised in Nangi, a remote village in the mountainous Myagdi District of western Nepal, Pun spent his childhood grazing cattle and sheep, and attending a village school without paper, pencils, textbooks or qualified teachers.

Marang Centre for Mathematics and Science Education

In addition to South African undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate future science and mathematics teachers, would-be teachers and teacher educators come from Southern African Development Community (SADC) member nations such as Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi', Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and other African countries.

Marie Taylor

She briefly taught at Cardozo High School, and later started up summer science institutes for high school science teachers, bringing new methods of how to teach science, such as using light-microscopes to study cells.

Narayana Kasturi

Kasturi states that he wrote about the early years of Sathya Sai Baba's life based on information gathered from Pedda-Venkapa Raju (Sai Baba's Father), Seshama Raju (Sai Baba's brother) and teachers from the schools in Bukkapatnam and Uravakonda, where Sathyanarayana Raju (Sai Baba) was a student.

National Center for History in the Schools

More recently, NCHS has developed materials for World History including World History for Us All: The Big Eras: A Compact History of Humankind for Teachers and Students with Ross E. Dunn, a professor emeritus and co-Director for World History.

Outward Bound

Some of the more notable Outward Bound teachers include James Kielsmeier, Stan Hugill, Tom Kennerley, Paul Petzoldt, Robert B. Rheault, Karl Rohnke, and Willi Unsoeld.

Peter Elbow

Elbow cites diaries, letters, stories, poems, and so forth as ways that students write for themselves with no teachers involved.

Piotr Gajewski

Upon completing his formal education, Gajewski continued refining his conducting skills at the 1983 Tanglewood Music Festival in Massachusetts, where he was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Conducting Fellowship and where his teachers included Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, André Previn, Gunther Schuller, Gustav Meier and Maurice Abravanel.

Rating site

Teachstreet — a "teacher rating site" founded in June 2007 by Dave Schappell in Seattle, that allows students to anonymously assign ratings to teachers of online and local American schools.

Reinhard Keiser

Keiser was born in Teuchern (in present-day Saxony-Anhalt), son of the organist and teacher Gottfried Keiser (born about 1650), and educated by other organists in the town and then from age eleven at the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where his teachers included Johann Schelle and Johann Kuhnau, direct predecessors of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Reva Brooks

On 12 August 1950 Leonard and Reva Brooks, as well as Stirling Dickinson and five other American teachers, were deported from Mexico.

Smithville Seminary

The site of Henry Barnard’s first Rhode Island Teachers Institute in 1845, the school began giving normal instruction for teachers with public funding in 1867, but ceased in 1871 when the state's Education Commissioner re-established the Rhode Island Normal School and cut program funding for other institutions.

Society to Encourage Studies at Home

Among those involved as teachers were: Ellen Swallow Richards (science), Vida Dutton Scudder (English), Lucretia Crocker (science), Katherine Peabody Loring (history), Alice James (history), Lucy Elliot Keeler (history), Florence Trail (ancient history) and Elizabeth Thorndike Thornton (history).

Stewart L. Gordon

He has served as an adjudicator for many international competitions, including the Gina Bachauer, William Kapell, Rosa Ponselle, Virginia Waring and the finals of the Canadian Music Competitions, and Music Teachers National Competitions at the regional and national levels.

Teaching for Change

The Zinn Education Project provides teachers with free resources to help teach a people's history including over 100 free downloadable lesson plans as a companion to Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States and other classroom resources for educators around the country.

Texas gubernatorial election, 1998

Mauro attacked Bush for his position on teachers salaries and support for a nuclear waste dump in Sierra Blanca.

The Freddie

In The Simpsons episode "Duffless", Bart dreams of a "Go-Go Ray" with the ability to force teachers and administrators to perform various fad dances, including the Mashed Potato, the Jerk, and the Freddie.

The Haberman Educational Foundation

The Haberman Educational Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation chartered in 1994 in accordance with the research of Dr. Martin Haberman for selecting the best teachers and principals for the children and youth of America.

The Student Teachers

The Student Teachers is a 1973 film directed by Jonathan Kaplan.

The Teacher Salary Project

American Teacher also features interviews with US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Deputy Secretary of Education Brad Jupp, the founder of The Equity Project Charter School Zeke Vanderhoek, Stanford Professor of Education Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford economist Eric Hanushek, and several regional and national teachers of the year.

Tiarama Adventist College

The only way to recruit new Adventist teachers was to send trainees to the college (now Saleve Adventist University) at Collonges-sous-Salève in France.

Vadim Chaimovich

His teachers were two distinguished musicians: Lev Natochenny, a professor of piano at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, and Peter Rösel, a renowned pianist from Dresden, both of them students of the legendary Lev Oborin.

Virginie

The show examined the public and private lives of teachers, students, and families at the fictional Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc high school.

Watharkar

During British Raj, Brahmins in general, found employment as white collar professions such as office clerks and teachers.


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