Hi! My name is Véronique. I'm a student at Montmorency College, and I have been studying Early Childhood Education for almost 3 years. It's my fifth semester. I'm almost done! Anyway, my program consists in learning specific knowledge to become an educator. My glossary would be for those who are in the same program as me and that wants to discover the terms that we use on our French class in English.
activity
noun
A thing that a person or group does or has done.
Example: This outer area of the city (the rabad) became the locus of political and commercial ACTIVITY.
en: activité
child
noun
A young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority.
Example: Lit. like a CHILD in a toyshop - so reluctant to choose one item to the exclusion of others that he ended up empty - handed.
en: enfant
collaboration
noun
The action of working with someone to produce or create something.
Example: Among primates, especially close COLLABORATION between parents has developed in a few forests - dwelling animals as diverse as gibbons on the one hand and the tiny marmosets on the other.
en: collaboration
daycare
noun
Supervision of and care for children or disabled adults that is provided during the day by a person or organization.
en: garderie
development
noun
A specified state of growth or advancement.
Example: This work is a study in urban history, in particular, one that examines a crucial period in the rise and DEVELOPMENT of large cities and metropolises in the region of Sogdiana within Central Asia, between the seventh and tenth centuries.
en: développement
discipline
noun
The practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, with punishment or other undesired consequences for those failing to comply.
Example: In the eyes of the faithful, these "Brabanters", with their freebooting and lack of DISCIPLINE after the end of campaigns, were as dangerous as heretics; in 1171 Frederick Barbarossa and Louis VII agreed to expel them from their lands.
en: discipline
educational
adjective
Relating to the provision of education.
Example: EDUCATIONAL administrators, teachers, and the public must be assured that online distance teaching is a valid and proven instructional method.
en: éducatif
empathy
noun
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Example: In other words, statutory interventions, whether or not they were justified on legal grounds, needed to be located in a moral and human framework of compassion, care, and EMPATHY.
en: empathie
game
noun
A form of play or sport, especially a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck.
Example: Children played a GAME against a second experimenter for chocolate.
en: jeu
intervention
noun
The act or fact or a means of interfering with the outcome or course especially of a condition or process (as preventing harm or improve functioning).
Example: But Sartre's courageous INTERVENTION against French and other colonialism could not have a corresponding theoretical impact so long as he retained his historicist Marxist framework.
en: intervention
listen
verb
To pay attention to sound.
Example: Much conscious fantasy is different; we may "tell a story" to ourselves (or LISTEN to a story and fantasise it as about ourselves); and sometimes we may attempt an imagined resolution, through fantasy, of some aspect of our social situation.
en: écouter
management
noun
Management is the process of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling resources—such as people, finance, and materials—to achieve an organization's goals effectively and efficiently.
Example: However, it should be highlighted that fast-tracking also inherits a greater potential for an unexpected cost increase due to uncertainty in planning and MANAGEMENT.
en: encadrement
observe
verb
Notice or perceive (something) and register it as being significant.
Example: With the help of the imperatives, the persona directly addresses the audience and wants them to "OBSERVE" (l. 10) and "imagine" (l. 14) all these great details that the small body of a baby already has.
en: observer
patience
noun
The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.
Example: All this requires imagination, PATIENCE, considerable linguistic skill, but above all a rigorous respect for the facts.
en: patience
pedagogy
noun
The method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept.
Example: A PEDAGOGY which aimed at teaching the functional potential of grammar along the lines I have described, would have to get learners to engage in a problem - solving tasks which required a gradual elaboration of grammar to service an increasing precision in the identification of relevant features of context.
en: pédagogie
planning
noun
Planning is the process of thinking regarding the activities required to achieve a desired goal.
Example: Attempting to capture the spirit of a period is another PLANNING strategy for a survey, though this philosophical notion of a Zeitgeist is notoriously elusive.
en: planification
program
noun
A set of related measures or activities with a particular long-term aim.
Example: Across generations, at least half of the students considered Chemawa's academic PROGRAM inadequate; over half of the students interviewed found the vocational training, when it was available, to be very useful.
en: programme
psychology
noun
The scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behaviors in a given context.
Example: First, however, it is necessary to consider the second line of research on creativity pursued in academic PSYCHOLOGY.
en: psychologie
responsibility
noun
A thing that one is required to do as part of a job, role, or legal obligation.
Example: With higher levels of accountability and RESPONSIBILITY, employees 'can be more easily blamed when things go wrong'.
en: responsabilité
routine
noun
A sequence of actions regularly followed; a fixed program.
Example: "However the use of these drugs rapidly became ROUTINE 'prophylaxis' for all women, irrespective of the degree of risk...".
