How to Use teaching in a Sentence

teaching

1 of 2 noun
  • He went into teaching after college.
  • Alaa earns no salary for her teaching.
    Ghada Abdulfattah, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The light is the light of teaching.
    Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The work of teaching has changed, too.
    Vera Lucia Pappaterra, Miami Herald, 27 May 2026
  • This is a year of teaching and learning.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 9 June 2026
  • This is a year of learning and teaching.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 28 May 2026
  • But teaching was only half the job.
    Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • All of that teaching was ahead, just as his pain was now behind him.
    Andrew Callahan, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2026
  • There is great teaching going on.
    Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Apr. 2026
  • That's to gloss over pretty deep teachings.
    CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • But teaching wasn’t her initial goal.
    Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2026
  • In Texas, no law bars the teaching of race or gender.
    Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Learning and teaching math comes with a unique set of challenges.
    Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026
  • The show is set in a teaching hospital.
    Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Public schools held on to about 90% of their teaching staff last year.
    Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 17 Feb. 2026
  • That’s what OTAs are all about — teaching.
    Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • Not sure the substitute teaching stipends could match that.
    Jay Paris, Oc Register, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The school’s teaching model may also shift.
    Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
  • This school year, three teachers were laid off from the small teaching staff because of a lack of funds.
    Nuria Martinez-Keel, Oklahoma Voice, 12 May 2026
  • Well, that’s the foundation of my teaching.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Our bone dry narrator’s bound for a teaching gig at an all-girls boarding school.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Morss had been charged with a felony, so the state revoked his teaching certificate.
    Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 28 May 2026
  • Gao refers to Daoist teachings that suggest that fire is not overcome by greater fire.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
  • TikTok users went to the comments to share their thoughts on the teaching style.
    Paloma Chavez, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • New voices, new philosophies, new ways of teaching and new sets of data to parse through.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 27 June 2026
  • 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
  • Every screen in the app becomes a teaching moment.
    Renae Gregoire, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • This often means that those who are not persuaded by its teachings can be fined, jailed, even killed.
    Kenneth Seeskin, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • This is where teaching began in Colorado.
    Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Michael Gorra reflects on his teaching life.
    Literary Hub, 4 May 2026

teaching

2 of 2 adjective
  • Instead, the cuts will target non-teaching jobs.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
  • In April more than 300 non-teaching staff members were laid off.
    Bri Buckley, CBS News, 5 May 2026
  • To that end, the state has been running a pro-teaching campaign on social media.
    Sara Randazzo, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Vaccination rates have been lower for non-teaching, lower-wage workers.
    Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 15 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • Fusco noted that even though the cuts are for non-teaching staff, children—especially the most vulnerable—will be affected.
    Joan Murray, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Organizations are looking to hire teachers and substitute teachers as well as non-teaching employees.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Broward County Public Schools sent out this letter to 300 non-teaching staff members as a notice of their layoffs.
    Joan Murray, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Also headed to a strike-authorization vote is Local 99, which represents the largest number of non-teaching employees.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Earlier this year, San Diego Unified’s deal on a contract with its teachers union caused consternation over possible cuts it was feared to have caused to non-teaching staff.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2026
  • But the portion of the agreement that aims to prevent layoffs has led to some level of strife among district staff — especially after the district approved more than 200 cuts to non-teaching jobs.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Examples include co-teaching, or teaching a lesson together, and providing student and classroom observations and feedback.
    Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Second, the non-teaching dimensions of higher education have become relatively more important.
    Richard Vedder, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • The student category here includes undergraduate, post-graduate students, and PhD, besides research scholars and non-teaching staff.
    Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 11 July 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
  • 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
  • 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 cuts also include 53 non-teaching positions associated with schools that are closing in the 2026-27 school year, district spokesman John Sullivan said.
    Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Los Angeles schools are one week away from a historic employee walkout — which for the first time would involve three major unions representing teachers, most non-teaching staff and school administrators, including principals and assistant principals.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • But, according to an audit conducted by the school district office of Chief Auditor Dave Rhodes, the wording of the 2022 referendum failed to specify which non-teaching staff would see the benefits.
    Natalie La Roche Pietri, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Classified employees — or non-teaching staff who support school operations such instructional aids, paraprofessionals, custodians, food service workers and bus drivers — will not hold a collective sympathy strike, although individual members are legally allowed to do so.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Negotiations also are ongoing with Local 99 of Service Employees International Union, the largest union for non-teaching employees.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026

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