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

• 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

• The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Teaching

  Andy Hargreaves (2001). “Changing Teachers, Changing Times: Teachers' Work and Culture in the Postmodern Age”, p.274, A&C Black

• Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Educational

• 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

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