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...have something to aggregate all this information,” he said. “I’m interested to see how faculty will react to getting recognition that their course is the sort of ‘best’ in the department or being the teacher of the lowest-rated course...
...despite the loftiness of her achievements - Hanssen Pigott is considered one of the world's best ceramic artists - the beauty of this exhibition is in showing the earthiness of her inspiration. Born in the Victorian goldmining town of Ballarat in 1935, this daughter of an engineer and craft teacher naturally, it seems, sought salvation from the ground. As an apprentice to Ivan McMeekin at his Mittagong pottery in the '50s, she became as expert as a geologist at analyzing the mineral contents of clay. Later, at the studios she set up in France and Tasmania, she was forever "digging...
Abby Barnes' hand shoots up nearly every time her teacher asks the 19 squirmy first-graders in her suburban Philadelphia public school to match letters of the alphabet to the sounds they make. Sitting up front with her pinchable cheeks framed by long blond hair, Abby, 7, looks as eager as any of her classmates to blurt out an answer. But every time the teacher calls on her, Abby freezes. Her face tightens. She strains to respond. And even if an answer manages to get past her lips, her words are inaudible. She's effectively mute throughout the school...
...Russell, her first-grade teacher, the child has found a sympathetic ally. The teacher periodically sends small groups of children to the bathroom together, alleviating Abby's stress about asking for breaks. And rather than lose patience with Abby for the false starts, she praises her for trying. Indeed, the most striking thing about the well-managed classroom is what this perpetually smiling teacher doesn't do: she doesn't command Abby to speak up, nor does she stop calling...
...panned the film (reviews in major papers tended toward the unimpressed). Did she think it would play beyond the evangelical community? ?I hate to say it,? she says, ?but it might not appeal so much to a wider audience. One of the people at Starbucks was a high school teacher, and when we asked what his students would think of it, he said they would have to have a little more background.? But for those with the proper background, a so-so film may yet act as a cultural amplifier and a sign of pride...