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teacher's pet

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*teacher's pet
the teacher's favorite student. (*Typically: be ~; become ~.) Sally is the teacher's pet. She always gets special treatment. The other students don't like the teacher's pet.
See also: pet


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00 Hardcover Routledge research in education LB3013 Unlike books on classroom management, this book on the social psychology of interactions in the classroom covers relevant theory and research, students' and teachers' nonverbal communication, the effects of teacher expectations (including the teacher's pet phenomenon), sociometric measurement in the classroom, the social structure of the student society, and the social psychology of educating and changing students.
Byline: FIONA PARKER pounds 25 for winning letter I ASKED my granddaughter if she was the teacher's pet and she replied "no".
Byline: BRENDA HOLROYD IT is reported that Tony Blair has beaten Gordon Brown to it by becoming the teacher's pet in America.
 
 
 
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