Teaching profession
Teaching profession
20 terms
This glossary focuses on key terms related to the teaching profession. It is useful for future teachers, students, and anyone else interested in education. In fact, a glossary can help in real life to solve problems and make our lives easier with simple and accessible words.
- Cafeteria
- A restaurant or dining room in a school or a business in which customers serve themselves or are served from a counter and pay before eating.
- Classroom
- A room in a school or college where groups of students are taught.
- Desk
- A piece of furniture with a flat or sloped surface and typically with drawers, at which one can read, write, or do other work.
- Development
- The process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes more advanced.
- Education
- The process of teaching or learning, especially in a school or college.
- Educator
- A person who teaches people.
- Evaluation
- The process of judging or calculating the quality, importance, amount, or value of something.
- Grades
- A mark indicating the quality of a student's work.
- Group work
- An active, collaborative learning process where two or more individuals work together on a shared task to enhance understanding, solve complex problems, and foster skills like communication, conflict resolution, and project management.
- Homework
- Work that teachers give their students to do at home.
- Instruction
- Detailed information telling how something should be done, operated, or assembled.
- Interaction
- Communication or direct involvement with someone or something.
- Learning
- The process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences, typically resulting in a relatively permanent change in behavior or cognitive structure.
- Lesson
- A period in which a person is taught about a subject or how to do something.
- Objectives
- Something that you plan to do or achieve.
- Pedagogy
- The method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept.
- Playground
- An outdoor area provided for children to play in, especially at a school or public park.
- Progress
- Movement to an improved or more developed state, or to a forward position.
- Students
- Someone who is learning at a school.
- White board
- A wipe able board with a white surface used for teaching or presentations.