Category: T

The role assumed by a teacher when evaluating the effectiveness of various educational and instructional techniques, teacher practitioner.  

A program of testing teachers’ basic skills, begun in Arkansas in the early 1980s. The concept of such testing rapidly spread throughout the country and is now a requirement in most states as a certification requirement.    

Organizations of teachers that lobby on behalf of the education profession at the state and federal levels, organize at the local levels to ensure the fair employment practices of school districts, and negotiate for teacher contracts.  

What teachers perceive as their function in the classroom and their expectations about their ability to carry out that role.  

The set of behaviors generally expected of one who is a teacher.  

Departments, schools, and institutions of higher education that confer degrees in education.  

The role assumed by a teacher when enthusiastically committed to a particular educational method or technique, teacher theorist.  

Associated with organized groups of teachers that advocate for the improvement of education, teacher empowerment.  

A gradual process of orientating and mentoring teachers into the public education system.  

A school environment designed to enable teachers to actively determine the structure of the educational system, teacher power.