Teaching glossary
Teaching glossary
20 terms
Teaching is to teach people something or to give someone knowledge. It can be on different level and different subject. For example, you can teach sport, mathematics, French, English and more. You can teach at high school, university and more. The person who teaches is called a teacher or an educator. This glossary can be useful for someone that want to become a teacher because you're gonna see all the work relate to this field of study.
- an educator
- A person who teaches people
- Class
- a group of students who are taught together at school, college, or university
- Education
- the process of teaching or learning, especially in a school or college, or the knowledge that you get from this
- Educational institution
- a place where people of different ages gain an education
- Elementary school
- a school that provides the first part of a child's education, usually for children between five and eleven years old
- Exam
- a test of a student's knowledge or skill in a particular subject
- Homework
- work that teachers give their students to do at home
- Knowledge
- understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study, either known by one person or by people generally
- Learn
- to get new knowledge or skill in a subject or activity
- Lesson
- a period of time in which a person is taught about a subject or how to do something
- Mathematics
- the study of numbers, shapes, and space using reason and usually a special system of symbols and rules for organizing them
- Pedagogy
- the study of the methods and activities of teaching
- School
- a place where children go to be educated
- School subject
- An area of knowledge that is studies in school
- Science
- (knowledge from) the careful study of the structure and behaviour of the physical world, especially by watching, measuring, and doing experiments, and the development of theories to describe the results of these activities
- Skills
- an ability to do an activity or job well, especially because you have practised it
- Student
- a person who is learning at a college or university
- Study
- to learn about a subject, especially in an educational course or by reading books
- Teach
- to give someone knowledge or to train someone; to instruct
- University
- a place where people study for an undergraduate (= first) or postgraduate (= higher level) degree