Chalkface

The last category in particular leads us into areas which we may not always be aware of at the chalkface/in the classroom, but which underline the strategic significance of the work which goes on there. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Teaching awards winners offer a view from the chalkface for the benefit of politicians and colleagues ❋ Unknown (2010)

Day to day here on the chalkface, almost every grammar explanation is a compromise between being accurate assuming it is even a point that the experts agree on and being easy to understand, use and remember. ❋ DC (2009)

As I said, I think we need to celebrate the strengths of both, whilst working towards our profession reflecting the majority of teachers in the world working at the chalkface, who are, I think we would all agree, Non-NEST teachers of English. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Developing educational screencasts – practical tips and pedagogical issues from the chalkface ❋ Dr. Eugene F.M. O'Loughlin (2008)

This is particularly so in the case of teachers who have been at the chalkface for many years and whose sense of vocation is under strain. ❋ Bill Kerr (2008)

This is because it has all gone on extra National Insurance contributions and pensions - very little has been seen at the chalkface. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It has been a good day at the chalkface for me and, I hope, for my students and nary a piece of chalk in sight. posted by Jo McLeay @ 2:39 PM ❋ Jo McLeay (2005)

The Cape Teachers 'Professional Association on Monday urged Asmal to ensure that "educators at the chalkface", especially those with some experience of the system, were included on the review committee. ❋ Unknown (2000)

In my years at the chalkface I came across a boy who liked to sit in a warm room quietly reading, but the other boys would quickly find him and smack his book into the air, so in the main, boys and girls do have conflicting requirements, and arrangements must be made. ❋ Michele Hanson (2011)

The notion of someone spending 40 years at the chalkface in front of kids on a full contact timetable are all but gone. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Those at the chalkface are undeniably the best placed to make these types of decisions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In his 30 years teaching at the inner-city chalkface, Fielding had never heard such filth. ❋ Michele Hanson (2010)

In my 24 years at the chalkface teaching Music and English, I learned to encourage the more timid and explain to the show-offs that it was someone else's turn. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When we import "reward and recognition" models of performance pay from the business world, we fail to dignify the acute sensibility in the education sector that funds spent here mean funds not spent there, that is, at the chalkface. ❋ Catherine Doherty (2010)

October, when one staff sergeant was asked by Bob Ainsworth, then Defence Secretary, to name the "top desire from right at that chalkface [sic]." ❋ Unknown (2010)

– it is about taking real steps to make sure that the profession reflects those working at the chalkface. ❋ Unknown (2009)