Dream of a Teacher
A teacher stands for learning and for the gaze that assesses you. Traditional reading treated a teacher as a benefactor who guides, so receiving instruction was a good omen of a road opening. Being praised means recognition is coming, while being scolded signals that you feel short somewhere yourself, not that anything of the kind will happen. It comes up often when there is something to learn, so if you are picking up something new, read it as a time when it sticks.
A dream about a teacher is where learning, being assessed, and the memory of whoever guided you all overlap. Of sitting face to face with a teacher, old readings held that there was still something left to learn. It comes up often for people long out of school.
Readings by Situation
Receiving instruction
A good omen of a road opening. Old manuals set store by whether you asked a question or only listened. Being handed something to keep reads better still.
Being praised
The one who taught you is the one giving the praise. Tradition read catching a superior's eye as good standing, but a teacher praises the process rather than the result, so it fits best a thing you are still learning.
Being scolded
What decides this scene is that the one scolding is a teacher. That is a seat for correcting, not for punishing, so it makes you name what you have lately let slide.
An old teacher appearing
A sign that you need something from that time now. Tradition read returning to an old place as checking your roots. Take it as a call to bring back how you used to learn.
A teacher dream does not foretell a grade or an appraisal. Unlike a school, a teacher points at who you are learning from, so bring to mind the person or the work that has been teaching you lately.