Glossary of teaching terms

What does collaboration mean?

• Working on a large project

• Working with one or more colleagues

• Doing activities with other people

• Working with one or more colleagues to achieve a common goal

What is formal assessment?

• Evaluating student performance using a structured activity such as a written test.

• Evaluating student learning to help you design further learning tasks

• Evaluating student performance through unstructured activities such as observation checklists

• All the suggestions

What is formative assessment?

• Evaluating student learning to help you design further learning tasks

• Evaluating student performance using a structured activity such as a written test.

• Evaluating student performance through unstructured activities such as observation checklists

• All of the suggestions

What does curriculum content refer to?

• What students are expected to learn

• What teachers are expected to teach.

• Knowledge, skills and understandings

• All of the suggestions

What is a mentor?

• A teacher

• An experienced person who helps another person learn

• A colleague

• A peer

What are stages of learning?

• Levels of learning aligned to the age or development of students

• A computer program

• A theatre for school children

• The curriculum documents

What does demonstrate mean?

• To carry out an activity in class

• To show that you understand something

• To work on a task with a group of people

• To protest about something that is unjust

What does effective teaching practices mean?

• Teaching strategies that result in high quality learning; backed up by research.

• Teaching strategies that keep students quiet

• Teaching strategies that keep students on task

• Teaching strategies that keep students busy

What does ICT stand for?

• Information and Collaborative Technology

• Indigenous and Community Treaties

• Information and Community Techniques

• Information and Communication Technologies

What is a colleague?

• A school based tutor

• A pre-service teacher

• A mentor

• All the suggestions