Teaching glossary

20 terms

I am in Social Science and in the future I want to be a teacher. This teaching glossary give 20 words about school, classroom, and teaching. This is for the people who want a better understand about the vocabulary in teaching and learning.

Active learning: Active learning is a general description of any instructional strategy that is used in the classroom to engage students in considering the consequences of their learning or to apply their knowledge to solving problems.
Assessment: Assessment is used to understand the state or condition of learning. An instructor assesses learning through both observation and measurement in an attempt to better understand students’ learning in a course.
Bloom’s taxonomy: Bloom's Taxonomy comprises three learning domains: the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor, and assigns to each of these domains a hierarchy that corresponds to different levels of learning. It's important to note that the different levels of thinking defined within each domain of the Taxonomy are hierarchical.
Classroom management: Classroom management is the process by which teachers and schools create and maintain appropriate behavior of students in classroom settings.
Collaboration: Collaboration is a social process of knowledge building in which people work together towards clear objectives, resulting in well-defined final products, consensus, or decisions.
Competency: Improve your course clarity with competencies and outcomes. Learn how to break down complex skills into measurable parts for better student understanding and success.
Curriculum: A standards-based sequence of planned experiences where students practice and achieve proficiency in content and applied learning skills.
Differentiation: Differentiation means tailoring instruction to meet individual needs. Whether teachers differentiate content, process, products, or the learning environment.
Engagement: It encompasses the extent to which students are motivated, attentive, and invested in their academic pursuits. Engaged students are actively involved in classroom activities, discussions, and assignments, demonstrating a sense of curiosity, enthusiasm, and ownership over their learning.
Evaluation: Evaluation refers to the process of judging the quality of student learning on the basis of established performance standards, and assigning a value to represent that quality.
Feedback: Feedback is information given to the learner about the learner's performance relative to learning goals or outcomes. It should aim to (and be capable of producing) improvement in students' learning. Feedback redirects or refocuses the learner's actions to achieve a goal, by aligning effort and activity with an outcome.
Formative assessment: Formative assessment occurs when students practice something they just learned or give the educator information about how well they are learning.
Inclusive education: Inclusive education means all children in the same classrooms, in the same schools. It means real learning opportunities for groups who have traditionally been excluded – not only children with disabilities, but speakers of minority languages too.
Learning objective: A learning objective is student centric; it states what the student will learn and be able to accomplish by the end of instruction.
Lesson plan: A lesson plan is a teacher's guide for facilitating a lesson. It typically includes the goal (what students need to learn), how the goal will be achieved (the method of delivery and procedure) and a way to measure how well the goal was reached (usually via homework assignments or testing).
Metacognition: Metacognition and self-regulation approaches support pupils to think about their own learning more explicitly, often by teaching them specific strategies for planning, monitoring and evaluating their learning. Metacognition is the learner's ability to be aware of, reflect on, and direct their thinking.
Pedagogy: Pedagogy in education is the study of teaching methods that educators use to help students meet learning objectives.
Rubric: A rubric is a type of scoring guide that assesses and articulates specific components and expectations for an assignment.
Scaffolding: A scaffold, also called scaffolding or staging, is a temporary structure that allows people to stand on a stable platform for work at height or in hard-to-reach places.
Summative assessment: Summative assessments are used to evaluate student learning, skill acquisition, and academic achievement at the conclusion of a defined instructional period.