What's the difference between headmaster and preceptor?

Headmaster


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I went to a reasonably good school, though I think I hated the headmaster just as much as he hated me.
  • (2) He would walk into the room and say, ‘I like this and that.’ It was a team effort, but definitely he was the headmaster.” Nautical but nice: Ralph Lauren unveils latest collection in New York Read more In the early 60s, Lauren worked for the Manhattan men’s outfitter Brooks Brothers behind the tie counter.
  • (3) Consequently, there isn't a week that goes by without Delingpole causing some sort of kerfuffle, then running away laughing like a naughty boy who has just blown off through the headmaster's letterbox.
  • (4) The headmaster of his Buckinghamshire grammar school once described Shayler as "a born rebel who sails close to the wind".
  • (5) He writes about a secondary school headmaster, dedicated to young people of all abilities and backgrounds: "Outside in the world the little meritocrats, those natural survivors, were climbing ... into dinghies, leaving the rest to make do with rafts.
  • (6) The first was delivered by Tim Hands , the headmaster of Magdalen College school since 2008, and given to mark Hands's elevation to chairmanship of the Headmasters and Mistresses Conference , which represents the prosperous elite of Britain's independent schools, including Eton and Roedean.
  • (7) Alec O’Connell, headmaster of Scotch College, where Mo went to school, said the “catastrophe was a tragedy of the highest order”.
  • (8) The real value of spending will be eroded over the next parliament.” Peter Kent, a serving headmaster and president of the Association of School and College Leaders, said school leaders shared the prime minister’s commitment to raising standards, “but we’ve got to have the resources to provide the quality of education he is talking about.
  • (9) Lindsay Roy, headmaster at Brown's old school, elected MP with increased share of vote.
  • (10) Lord Justice Leveson joined in, like the headmaster walking in on a rowdy classroom.
  • (11) He detested Downside, the Benedictine public school, quaintly claiming that the headmaster had "set himself up in opposition to me".
  • (12) Lawrence Stone was born in Epsom, and educated at Charterhouse, where the headmaster, Sir Robert Birley, subsequently headmaster of Eton and then professor of social science at the City University, London, was a strong influence.
  • (13) After furious lobbying from the public schools (the Headmasters' Conference was established to counter this threat), the endowed schools bill was completely emasculated, the only provision that remained was competitive exams, which only helped to entrench their social and financial exclusivity.
  • (14) In 2009 Niall Nelson, headmaster while Vahey was at JIS, gave him a reference for a job at Southbank international school in London.
  • (15) William Richardson, general secretary of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, said: "We are pleased that after 17 months, Ofqual has acknowledged and begun to address some of the failings that HMC has been highlighting.
  • (16) She said she told senior administrators, including the headmaster, about the incident.
  • (17) On Wednesday, a letter to parents from headmaster John McIntosh and chairman of governors Father Ignatius Harrison said money was needed because government funding changes had left the Roman Catholic comprehensive with a £250,000 deficit.
  • (18) "In this time of national crisis, it is incumbent on us all to support our government," his headmaster writes.
  • (19) Sometimes we’ve had managers in the past who have ruled like a headmaster, being a little bit too strict.
  • (20) Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian Retired headmaster and local historian Salem Ould Elhadje says no one knows where Kankou Moussa – the “king of kings” as he is known in Mali – established his capital, or even if he had one.

Preceptor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor.
  • (n.) The head of a preceptory among the Knights Templars.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A teaching practice of a residency program in primary care internal medicine was used for a cross-sectional study of the record-keeping habits of ambulatory preceptors and the residents they supervise.
  • (2) All but 10 interventions were considered by preceptors to be significant contributions to patient care.
  • (3) Use of preceptors, use of multiple and single agencies, observational visits, time scheduled, projects, and faculty philosophy of CHN were examined.
  • (4) The Hippocratic concept of preceptor education as an alternative has much to recommend it in replacing the present system, which underwrites the cost of student education through research grants and subsidies, but greatly neglects the continuing education of the practicing physician.
  • (5) All actors in the educational process--student, preceptors, and faculty--have the same expectations when clinical learning is clarified through the use of clinical focus guidelines.
  • (6) Opioid preceptor blockade with naloxone prevented the appearance of inhibitory action of stress and CRF on hypophyseal gonadotropic function rather than on testicular secretory activity.
  • (7) This approach has resulted in improved documentation of the preceptee's progress and greater consistency in how preceptors implement their role.
  • (8) Senior medical students are used as the patient and the preceptor to introduce the fundamentals of history taking and physical examination to sophomore medical students and this technique compared to the established method for teaching basic skills at the University of Iowa.
  • (9) Some elucidation of the functioning of the primary care physician in the role as gatekeeper to health and social services for elderly patients is provided by a survey of family practice preceptors.
  • (10) The viability and strength of this preceptor program may be attributed to the inclusion of all levels of nursing staff in its development and implementation.
  • (11) Newer methods of evaluation, for example, daily assessment by preceptors, have been described, but work continues to be needed on these and older methods, such as oral examinations.
  • (12) The system was implemented on the nursing units with preceptors serving as instructor-trainers.
  • (13) The importance of good relations between the school and the preceptors is stressed.
  • (14) The authors describe usual preceptor benefits and explore possibilities for more tangible rewards which can be cost efficient and stimulate preceptor interest and enthusiasm.
  • (15) A preceptor-supervised intervention program was beneficial to Pharm.D.
  • (16) Seven of the 22 preceptors had significant positive correlations for both criterion measures, while seven of 22 did not correlate at a significant level for either.
  • (17) Four doctor of pharmacy degree students under the direct guidance of a clinical pharmacy preceptor suggested 231 patient-care interventions during their clinical rotations; 219 (94.8%) of the interventions were either fully or partially accepted by the prescriber.
  • (18) A plea is made for general practitioners to cooperate, not only as preceptors in the apprenticeship scheme, but also to take part in the collection of basic data for research projects initiated by the sub-Department of Community Practice, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine.
  • (19) Using the three-tiered model, clinical teaching activities are shared among preceptors, clinical instructors, and the course coordinator.
  • (20) Nurse educators need to decide if preceptor programs, complete with a well-defined selection, preparation, and reward process are in place.

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