teacher training n
another term for teacher education
teaching portfolion
see portfolios
teaching practice n
also practicum, practice teaching
(in teacher education) opportunities provided for a student teacher to gain
teaching experience, usually through working with an experienced teacher
- the co-operating teacher – for a period of time by teaching that
teacher’s class. Practice teaching experiences may include microteaching,
teaching an individual lesson from time to time, or regular teaching
over a whole term or longer, during which the student teacher has direct
and individual control over a class. Practice teaching is intended to give
student teachers experience of classroom teaching, an opportunity to apply
the information and skills they have studied in their teacher education
programme, and a chance to acquire basic teaching skills.
teaching style n
a teacher’s individual instructional methods and approach and the charac-
teristic manner in which the teacher carries out instruction. Teachers differ
in the way they see their role in the classroom, the type of teacher–student
interaction they encourage, their preferred teaching strategies and these
differences lead to differences in the teacher’s teaching style.
team teaching n
a term used for a situation in which two teachers share a class and divide
instruction between them. Team teaching is said to offer teachers a number
of benefits: it allows for more creative teaching, allows teachers to learn
through observing each other, and gives teachers the opportunity to work
with smaller groups of learners.
technical word n
alsotechnical term
1 a word whose occurrence is limited to a particular field or domain and
which has a specialized meaning. For example morpheme, phoneme, in
linguistics.
2 a common word that has a specialized meaning in a particular field, such
as significancein statistics.
see also terminology
technical word