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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One trained in teaching; a teacher.
- noun A specialist in the theory and practice of education.
- noun An administrator of a school or an educational institution.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which educates; specifically, one who makes a business or a special study of education; a teacher or instructor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who educates; a teacher.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person distinguished for his/her educational work
- noun A person who, or a thing which,
educates - noun A
teacher - noun A person that accepts responsibility for the educating process and educates by supporting and assisting an educand.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who educates young people
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Examples
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As NCATE puts it, The essential task of any educator is to combine a depth of knowledge about subjects with a thorough understanding of the subject under study and to bridge the two with appropriate instructional plans and pedagogical tools.
Sam Chaltain: It's the Development, Stupid Sam Chaltain 2010
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The role of an educator is not to lecture from on high, filling empty vessels with a predetermined amount of "correct" knowledge.
Audrey Kuo: The 'Privilege' Of Good Education: Restoring The Right To Learn Audrey Kuo 2010
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Further, becoming a diabetes educator is not easy, there is no direct route.
Riva Greenberg: The Urgent State of Diabetes Riva Greenberg 2010
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As NCATE puts it, The essential task of any educator is to combine a depth of knowledge about subjects with a thorough understanding of the subject under study and to bridge the two with appropriate instructional plans and pedagogical tools.
Sam Chaltain: It's the Development, Stupid Sam Chaltain 2010
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My friend Charlie Darling, whom I know as a kickass sex educator, is going to be singing.
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My friend Charlie Darling, whom I know as a kickass sex educator, is going to be singing.
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My best guess as an educator is she needs a good dose of self esteem and self value.
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It doesn't take much to shuffle test papers in front of a classrooms of students; the art of the educator is in interpreting the results and assisting each student in their strength and weaknesses.
Sound Politics: Sorry, low-income children of Washington, you lose 2006
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My role as an educator is to seek out this information, present it in a way that stimulates thinking, in a way that informs opinion and transforms mere opinions into cogent arguments.
Technology: The Death of Teaching, a Rebirth of Education 1997
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But the role of educator is a role which responsible persons dare not shirk.
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- Bethune
- Carnegie
- Comenius
- Dewey
- Froebel
- Gallaudet
- Hopkins
- Hutchins
- Laney
- Lowell
- Mann
- McGuffey
- Montessori
- Moynihan
- Naismith
- Orff
- Peabody
- Sullivan
- Washington
- Willard
- Witherspoon
- abbott lawrence lowell
- academic
- academician
- andrew d. white
- andrew dickson white
- anne mansfield sullivan
- anne sullivan
- booker t. washington
- booker taliaferro washington
- braille
- carl orff
- dale carnegie
- daniel patrick moynihan
- elizabeth palmer peabody
- elizabeth peabody
- emma hart willard
- faculty member
- friedrich froebel
- friedrich wilhelm august froebel
- head
- head teacher
- horace mann
- instructor
- james naismith
- jan amos komensky
- john amos comenius
- john dewey
- john witherspoon
- lector
- lecturer
- louis braille
- lucy craft laney
- maria montesorri
- mark hopkins
- mary mcleod bethune
- pitman
- principal
- reader
- robert maynard hutchins
- school principal
- schoolmaster
- sir isaac pitman
- teacher
- thomas hopkins gallaudet
- white
- william holmes mcguffey
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