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Teaching ˈtiːtʃɪŋ Retired Noun Bre Make Career Profession

Word teaching
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / ˈtiːtʃɪŋ / NAmE / ˈtiːtʃɪŋ /
Example
  • she wants to go into teaching (= make it a career).
  • the teaching profession
  • he has now retired from full-time teaching
  • how much teaching do you actually do?
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teaching

(noun)BrE / ˈtiːtʃɪŋ / NAmE / ˈtiːtʃɪŋ /
  1. the work of a teacher
    • She wants to go into teaching (= make it a career).
    • the teaching profession
    • He has now retired from full-time teaching
    • How much teaching do you actually do?
  2. the ideas of a particular person or group, especially about politics, religion or society, that are taught to other people
    • the teachings of Lenin
    • views that go against traditional Christian teaching

    Extra Examples

    • Applicants must hold a recognized teaching qualification.
    • Critics say that these tests waste teaching time.
    • He followed the teachings of the Bible on this subject.
    • He served as a teaching assistant at South Dakota State University.
    • He’s going to go into teaching.
    • I’ve been in teaching for ten years.
    • Lecturers who have heavy teaching loads.
    • Mr Murphy retired at the end of a 30-year teaching career.
    • She used puppets as teaching aids.
    • The aim of the campaign is to promote the teaching of science.
    • The teaching year runs from October to May.
    • They have left the teaching profession, demoralized and undervalued.
    • Work experience is integrated into the teaching programme.
    • Write each teaching point on the whiteboard.
    • You have to do six weeks teaching practice as part of the course.
    • a system that rewards good classroom teaching
    • a teaching environment where English is not the first language
    • regarded as the source of goodness in the teachings of Confucius
    • secondary school teaching
    • the Church’s teaching on forgiveness
    • the disciples who passed on Jesus’s teaching
    • the formal teaching of grammar
    • the fundamental teachings of the Buddha
    • the great moral teachings on which our culture is based
    • the modern approach to language teaching
    • the official teaching of the Church
    • Do you have any teaching qualifications?
    • He has extensive teaching experience.
    • He was hoping to deepen his awareness of Islamic teaching.
    • Teaching methods have not changed as much as people might think.
    • The culture is based in the teachings of Confucius.
    • The system should reward good classroom teaching.
    • These views go against traditional Christian teaching.
    • They were obliged to study the teachings of Marx and Lenin in schools.
    • What made you go into teaching?
    • You need to do at least 12 weeks’ teaching practice to qualify.
    • student teaching
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