Category: T

  • Teacher effectiveness

    A professional movement designed to study and understand the necessary skills and conditions associated with successful teaching.  

  • Teacher education

    Academic programs that prepare prospective teachers with content and pedagogy in education, teacher preparation programs.  

  • Teacher corps

    A federally funded program that encourages teachers, and student teacher to work in disadvantaged areas while attending courses and seminars dealing with the special problems they encounter.  

  • Teacher contracts

    Fixed terms of employment and compensation for teachers are established by authority of local boards of education.  

  • Teacher certification

    The set of legal requirements established by each state to ensure that a person is qualified to teach.  

  • Teacher-centered methods

    Teacher-dominated approaches to teaching/learning learner-centered methods.  

  • Teacher-centered curriculum guide

    Describes what teachers will be doing to affect pupil learning, learner-centered curriculum guide.  

  • Teacher aide

    A lay person who assists teachers with clerical work, library duties, noninstructional supervision, etc. paraprofessional.  

  • Teachable moments

    A term and process coined by J.B. Nash. The concept stresses the importance of teachers to take advantage of current situations, many of them being unplanned, to teach pupils.  

  • Tay-sachs disease

    Characterized by a lack of the enzyme hexosaminidase A (Hex A), which is essential for the body to properly use lipids. The lipids tend to accumulate in the cells, especially brain cells, resulting in their destruction and eventually death is a genetic disease within the group known as inborn errors of metabolism is a single-gene…