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Definition of Head teacher

1. Noun. The educator who has executive authority for a school. "She sent unruly pupils to see the principal"

Definition of Head teacher

1. Noun. (context: education) A gender-neutral term for a headmaster or headmistress. ¹

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Literary usage of Head teacher

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Commissioners by Royal Commission on Secondary Education, Great Britain (1895)
"appointed by the head teacher, who should also have power to dismiss them, ... The head teacher should also have the power to suspend any assistant teacher ..."

2. The Training of Teachers in England and Wales by Peter Sandiford (1910)
"The head teacher may either be responsible for the whole school or for a single ... The Board does not, as a rule, recognize a head teacher who is ..."

3. Annual Report by Western Australia Education Dept (1893)
"A head teacher should not confine himself to one class. ... A practice prevailing in some Schools is for the head teacher to confine himself to one class ..."

4. Sonnenschein's Cyclopædia of Education: A Handbook of Reference on All edited by Alfred Ewen Fletcher (1889)
"Here the tests of quality as well as quantity have to be applied ; and a head teacher's primary duty—when he is allowed the appointment of his assistants ..."

5. Comparative Education: Studies of the Educational Systems of Six Modern Nations by Peter Sandiford, Isaac Leon Kandel, Harold Waldstein Foght, Arthur H. Hope (1918)
"The professional training is given by the head-teacher of the school to which ... The academic training may be given by a head-teacher (in rural schools), ..."

6. Moral Instruction and Training in Schools: Report of an International by Michael Sadler (1908)
"Should a head teacher have power to expel a dangerous girl ? ... The head teacher is somewhat conventional in her views and does not see that any such talk ..."

7. The Principles of Education by Thomas Raymont (1906)
"In ^he scnool general it may be said that the head teacher's functions staff: relate to all ... The head teacher will settle the details of the curriculum, ..."

8. The Association Review by American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (1900)
"There should be a head teacher in each cottage. It should be his duty to arange the daily programme for the family, to see that it is carried out to the ..."

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