Dictionary Thesaurus Word Dynamo Quotes Reference Translator Spanish

teacher

[tee-cher]

CA Teaching Credential www.pepperdine.edu/teaching-credential Get your Masters & Credential in just 1 year. Apply Online Now.

Pass the RICA www.daveshelp.com My guide will help you pass. On-line help available!

School teacher www.local.com Find school teacher Best-Rated Near You! Find Deals.

Ads

noun

a person who teaches or instructs, especially as a profession; instructor.

Dictionary.com Free Toolbar Dictionary.com Define Teacher Instantly. Faster Page Loads With Fewer Ads.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English techer. See teach, -er¹

Related forms

teach·er·less, adjective

teach·er·ship, noun

non·teach·er, noun

self-teach·er, noun

un·der·teach·er, noun

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source

Link To teacher

:10

:09

:08

:07

:06

:05

:04

:03

:02

:01

Teacher is always a great word to know.

So is lollapalooza. Does it mean:

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

LEARN MORE UNUSUAL WORDS WITH WORD DYNAMO...

Example Sentences

New models for teacher preparation are thinking outside the box.

If a teacher is a good teacher, one or two problem children will not have a drastic impact on their teaching performance.

Note how the job description is similar to and different from that of a teacher.

EXPAND

New models for teacher preparation are thinking outside the box.

If a teacher is a good teacher, one or two problem children will not have a drastic impact on their teaching performance.

Note how the job description is similar to and different from that of a teacher.

Any teacher can tell you that smarts alone do not a good student make.

So long as a teacher imparts a sense of wonder and curiosity, the details will follow.

Teacher study plans would need to be approved by their principal.

In his state-of-the-city address, the mayor announced yet more reforms, tackling everything from teacher tenure to funding.

He can get a home teacher or home school him yourself as you are able if you need too.

One of my many jobs as my kids' teacher is to make sure they know how to think.

It can liberate a good teacher to become even better.

Every teacher knows there are students who always seem to be a step ahead of everyone else.

Study leaders used teacher evaluation surveys at the end of each semester as their main form of data collection.

Of course, it can also make it easy for a bad teacher to cop out.

Remember to tell your parents and your teacher that you are participating.

The teacher ordered me to let them play and called me selfish.

Any really good teacher will tell you that it's better to have one good teacher than to have two mediocre teachers.

Your teacher probably told you these were constants of nature.

When you start studying, if you show your teacher an essay written in pinyin they wince and find an excuse not to read it.

The city's teacher ranking system has been thrust into the spotlight, bringing its relevance into question.

Evidence of sustained scholarly focus on the practice of teaching and/or teacher education.

Nearly every teacher present when my kids were attending are still at the same school.

So clearly being a good teacher was much more important for the occupant himself.

Shawn puts teacher into two groups in regards to their ideas about grades:.

The teacher union and bad negotiations are to blame in that case.

Matt is a history teacher his twin brother, greg, is a drug addict.

The teacher stands in the center and is able to supervise the three sections at one time.

Your daughter should be proud of the nomination from her teacher.

In case you don't remember, this teacher wanted to teach evolution to his.

In one section, the teacher lectures on a particular topic.

It is an honor to have a teacher think so highly of her and her abilities.

Also, when looking at annual teacher salaries, be sure to figure in summer vacations for the large number that have them.

Pupils in remote villages watch televised lectures before tackling exercises with a local teacher.

The extraordinary effort, he says, was triggered by a music teacher who suggested that he didn't have the chops for.

Someone complained about a teacher using this question and the answer was disputed.

Any system of evaluating school and teacher performance will result in changes in school and teacher behaviour.

Perhaps you remember your fifth-grade teacher pulling down a screen--or dad hanging a.

One former high school math teacher said she loves the idea.

The main task is to train better teachers and to link extra spending to teacher performance.

Just because your teacher told you not to, he/she was not right.

Others anticipate the loss of specific income streams-from, for example, government plans to shift teacher training into schools.

Although a student doctor may seem to have touched all the right spots, there's no real way for a teacher looking on to tell for.

Yet it appears that no one bothered to contact a local high school physics teacher to look over this.

COLLAPSE

Collins

World English Dictionary

teacher (ˈtiːtʃə)

—n
1.	a person whose occupation is teaching others, esp children
2.	a personified concept that teaches: nature is a good teacher

'teacherless

—*adj*

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source

Etymonline

Word Origin & History

teacher

"one who teaches," c.1300; see teach. It was used earlier in a sense of "index finger" (late 13c.).

Word Dynamo By Dictionary.com

Searching for teacher?
How many words do you actually know?

FIND OUT

teacher bird tutor visiting teacher Abélard academe academic

Matching Quote

"Do you not see that so long as society says woman has not brains enough to be a doctor, lawyer or minister, but has plenty to be a teacher, every man of you who condescends to teach, tacitly admits before all Israel and the sun that he has no more brains than a woman?"

-Susan B. Anthony

Partners:Word Bloglines Citysearch The Daily Beast Ask Answers Ask Kids Life123 Sendori Thesaurus

About Privacy Policy Terms of Use API Careers Advertise with Us Contact Us Help