How to Use teaching in a Sentence

teaching

1 of 2 noun
  • He went into teaching after college.
  • But no one’s teaching any of us how to build those firms.
    Byalena Botros, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2023
  • My mother’s sun was in Pisces in the third house, the home of teaching and writing.
    Betsy Vereckey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The job of teaching is one of the most challenging there are, and one of the most rewarding.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Steps offered him a teaching job, and for more than 30 years his jazz class was a staple of its lineup.
    Margaret Fuhrer, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The shock of switching to Zoom teaching in the spring of 2020 was incredibly hard for all involved.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Green is in her 24th year teaching at Kellogg and is a mentor for new teachers.
    Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • After that trip, Joe landed in the District in the late 1990s and ended up teaching in a D.C. public school.
    Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Last week, 31-year-old Madina Alam was among the group of women who hit it off and got a rose from the tennis teaching pro.
    Chyna Blackmon, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Cassidy, who has been a school counselor for 10 years, is in his first year teaching at Andrew.
    Kimberly Fornek, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
  • After a year of living in Panama City, a teaching job led me to a remote beach town called Playa Venao on the coast.
    Kiersten Marie Brown, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Dec. 2023
  • In recent weeks, Francis has often turned his speeches and teachings over to an aide to read aloud.
    Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Soon, the scores began to decline, and there was no longer a system in place that checked schools’ fidelity to the teaching of reading.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Classes are held at golf clubs across the U.S. and in Europe, and teaching aids include video analysis.
    Brian McCallen, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2023
  • But Noori and his family have already established new lives in San Diego, and he’s found a way back to teaching.
    Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • Out come lessons on curiosity, the joy of teaching, learning to listen, and the power of stories.
    Julie Ann Canniff, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Most people see this as a problem that AI creators can solve with better teaching, though.
    PCMAG, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The catalyst The unified stand by the country’s teaching staff comes after the suicide of a first-grade teacher, in her early 20s, in July.
    Paula Hancocks, CNN, 27 Oct. 2023
  • For a few months after the onset of the pandemic, the teaching force shrunk due to resignations and retirements.
    USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
  • That spills over into looking at wages and paid care jobs outside the home, like teaching, nursing, childcare, elder care, so forth and so on.
    How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • Another board member who voted to approve the changes, Nancy Philippart, said the teaching of math has to evolve.
    Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 26 May 2023
  • With it, families across the country were abruptly switched to remote learning, a method of learning that was supposed to mimic the style of in-school teaching.
    Tanay Howard, Parents, 4 Feb. 2024
  • But that selective teaching aided in the erasure of a key figure in our history.
    Shelli Nicole, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Her work pushed open doors to university teaching in the West for women and scientists of color.
    Michelle Frank, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
  • According to their religious teachings, a zombie had to be killed.
    Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 13 May 2023
  • Along with his teaching, this comfort with death becomes now part of his inspiration.
    John Byron Kuhner, National Review, 3 Feb. 2024
  • After his marathon debut in Hong Kong, Ser-Od quit his teaching job and joined the national police as an officer, one who could win races.
    Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The Florida provision echoes measures elsewhere in the past two years that have sought to regulate the teaching of race in all levels of public schools.
    Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
  • But the law changed that year to allow parents to educate their children without a teaching certificate.
    Allison Torres Burtka and Hannah Dellinger, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2024
  • In addition to his sculpture, Nettleship paid the bills through teaching and with commissions for decorative ironworks.
    Michael Wells, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2024
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teaching

2 of 2 adjective
  • To that end, the state has been running a pro-teaching campaign on social media.
    Sara Randazzo, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Still, the school board dragged the conflict out until January 1978, when Lish accepted a non-teaching position in the district.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Beasley said elementary school teachers and all district staff in non-teaching positions will be required to come back to work March 22.
    Leon Stafford, ajc, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Leading up to the strike, the district had hundreds of vacancies for educators and non-teaching classified staff, putting a strain on employees, union leaders said.
    Melissa Gomezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2022
  • In those days, our taxes did indeed pay for the salaries of both professors and non-teaching staff, the maintenance of the facilities, utilities and all other costs of operating UCLA.
    Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2021
  • But the challenges are related more to hiring, especially for non-teaching staff positions.
    Sharon Lurye and Rebecca Griesbach, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Vaccination rates have been lower for non-teaching, lower-wage workers.
    Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The money devoted to non-teaching administrative costs is now about equal to the money devoted to classroom instruction.
    Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The former office administrator noted that teachers aren’t the only ones facing these challenges; non-teaching staff have also struggled during the pandemic.
    Alexis Oatman, cleveland, 6 Feb. 2022
  • The plan would take staff members — including assistant principals, secretaries and counselors — away from their work for middle and high schools and place them in non-teaching roles supervising children in elementary schools.
    Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Organizations are looking to hire teachers and substitute teachers as well as non-teaching employees.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Local 99 of Service Employees International Union, which represents most non-teaching campus workers, has called for a voice in safety matters.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The student category here includes undergraduate, post-graduate students, and PhD, besides research scholars and non-teaching staff.
    Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 11 July 2022
  • Watson also suggested that schools look internally for backup and use non-teaching school staff – like librarians, paraeducators, substitute teachers, central office staff and reading specialists – to fill the ranks.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Second, the non-teaching dimensions of higher education have become relatively more important.
    Richard Vedder, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Big schools actually produced diseconomies of scale (above about 600 students) requiring more administration, more security, and more transportation—all increasing the percentage of non-teaching staff.
    Tom Vander Ark, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • Local 99 of Service Employees International Union, which represents most non-teaching employees, including large numbers of lower-wage workers, pushed for the extension in contract negotiations.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Teaching and non-teaching positions available include bus drivers, campus supervisors, child nutrition assistants, food service professionals, health clerks, instructional aides and assistants, maintenance workers, noon duty supervisors, and nurses.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2022
  • To that end, the state has been running a pro-teaching campaign on social media.
    Sara Randazzo, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Still, the school board dragged the conflict out until January 1978, when Lish accepted a non-teaching position in the district.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Beasley said elementary school teachers and all district staff in non-teaching positions will be required to come back to work March 22.
    Leon Stafford, ajc, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Leading up to the strike, the district had hundreds of vacancies for educators and non-teaching classified staff, putting a strain on employees, union leaders said.
    Melissa Gomezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2022
  • In those days, our taxes did indeed pay for the salaries of both professors and non-teaching staff, the maintenance of the facilities, utilities and all other costs of operating UCLA.
    Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2021
  • But the challenges are related more to hiring, especially for non-teaching staff positions.
    Sharon Lurye and Rebecca Griesbach, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Vaccination rates have been lower for non-teaching, lower-wage workers.
    Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The money devoted to non-teaching administrative costs is now about equal to the money devoted to classroom instruction.
    Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The former office administrator noted that teachers aren’t the only ones facing these challenges; non-teaching staff have also struggled during the pandemic.
    Alexis Oatman, cleveland, 6 Feb. 2022
  • The plan would take staff members — including assistant principals, secretaries and counselors — away from their work for middle and high schools and place them in non-teaching roles supervising children in elementary schools.
    Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Organizations are looking to hire teachers and substitute teachers as well as non-teaching employees.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Local 99 of Service Employees International Union, which represents most non-teaching campus workers, has called for a voice in safety matters.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022

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