Teaching 2
Teaching Glossary
This glossary about teaching was made so people can learn new words about the subject.
- Competencies
- Noun
- An individual's abilities as they relate to knowledge, understanding, and skills; see also minimal competence.
- Example: I made exams related to all the competencies in order to evaluate my students.
- en: Compétences
- E-learning
- Noun
- Learning activities based on any electronic format.
- Example: I like to use E-learning for my students, they like it better that way.
- en: -
- Essay
- Noun
- A short written work on a topic.
- Example: My students wrote an essay about their summer.
- en: Essai
- Grading rubric
- Noun
- Written explanation clarifying how individuals will be assessed on a given task.
- Example: I read the grading rubric before correcting my students' exams.
- en: Rubrique de classement
- Mentoring
- Can be a verb, noun, or adjective.
- Activity of advising and guiding a person through some task.
- Example: He was mentoring two boys from 3 to 5 yesterday night. (verb)
- en: Mentor
- Modularization
- Noun
- Teaching process that splits material or courses into modules to allow students flexibility in selecting modules to create a program of study.
- Example: I used modularization to separate everything I need to teach this year.
- en: Modularisation
- Practical work
- Noun
- Activities completed in a course that are intended to show how theories and general knowledge are applied.
- Example: I use practical work after talking about a subject with my students so they can apply what we learned.
- en: Travaux pratiques
- Psychomotor domain
- Noun
- The physical aspect or muscular activity of experience or learning.
- Example: I use psychomotor domain to make my students move while learning.
- en: Domaine psychomoteur
- Quality assurance
- Noun
- Internal and external processes for ensuring the quality of an object or institution maintains a desired level.
- Example: I made an exercice for my students to assure they kept the quality they had.
- en: -
- Redeemable failure
- Noun
- Situation in which a student does not meet the necessary level but is still allowed to move to the next level.
- Example: I like to use the "redeemable failure" format, so my students can try again when they fail an exam or a test.
- en: Échec rachetable
- Reflective practice
- Noun
- Practice of engaging in reflection to identify important elements of past events.
- Example: We used reflective practice when we talked about 9/11 yesterday.
- en: Pratique réflexive
- Rehearsal
- Noun
- Process of practicing an action or activity in order to perfect it.
- Example: Today is the last rehearsal before the final exam.
- en: Répétition
- Remedial teaching
- Noun
- Education activities aimed at removing deficiencies in knowledge or skills.
- Example: I used remedial teaching so students quit their bad habits while doing their homework and exams.
- en: -
- Self assessment
- Noun
- Assessment completed by the learner him/herself to evaluate his/her own performance, strengths and weaknesses.
- Example: My students had a self assessment to do today so I know if they are satisfied with their results.
- en: Auto-évaluation
- Sight vocabulary
- Noun
- Words an individual can identify immediately without decoding.
- Example: This word is part of the sight vocabulary of my students; they already know the definition of it.
- en: -
- Standards
- Noun
- Specified ends of learning all students are expected to attain.
- Example: I made a list of all the standards I want my students to achieve.
- en: Standards
- Surface learning
- Noun
- Learning that emphasizes the memorization of details (rote learning); contrast with deep learning.
- Example: In my history class, we use surface learning, so we tend to memorize more details.
- en: Apprentissage superficiel
- Transfer of learning
- Noun
- Ability to apply knowledge and skills learned in one area to another context or problem.
- Example: When my students use at home the math we learned in class, they are doing a transfer of learning.
- en: Transfert d'apprentissage
- Word length
- Noun
- Total number of words required for an essay, thesis or written report.
- Example: The word length for this essay is four hundred words.
- en: Nombre de mots
- Word wall
- Noun
- A selected collection of words posted on a wall that is arranged in lists or groups to facilitate students familiarity with common sight words.
- Example: I have a word wall in my english class so students can refer to it when the forget a word.
- en: Mur de mots