guide on the side

guide on the side (plural guides on the side)

Skousen, a chemist's daughter, directs her third-graders to conduct hands-on experiments — her force and motion unit is particularly popular — with self-discovery as their learning compass. "I act as the mentor, the guide on the side," Skousen said.

2005 April 13, Jennifer Toomer-Cook, “2 Utah teachers win presidential awards”, in Deseret Morning News, retrieved 2013-09-01:

(education) An educator whose method is to provide students with occasional advice, assistance, and correction while allowing them to explore a subject area independently or by interacting among themselves; this educational method itself.


D.S.

Doctor of Science
Doctor of Science#English

(education) Initialism of Doctor of Science.


SVQ

Scottish Vocational Qualification
w:Scottish Vocational Qualification

(education) Initialism of Scottish Vocational Qualification.


patchwriting

(education) A form of plagiarism in which material by various writers is combined.


academy school

(UK, education) A kind of state-funded school in England that is independent of direct control by local government and has a curriculum specialism.


EM

en-noun

EM (countable and uncountable, plural EMs)

(education) Initialism of English medium.


preparation room

preparation room (plural preparation rooms)

(sciences, education) a laboratory for preparing teaching materials


prep room

preparation room
preparation room#English

(sciences, education) Abbreviation of preparation room.


advanced degree

advanced degree (plural advanced degrees)

This is based on . . . the opinion of a vocational expert that "it is likely that Matthew would have graduated from college and obtained an advanced degree".

1998 November 3, Cathy Comerford, “Woodward sued for baby's lost millions”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2014-02-03:

Skeptics like to point out that the income gap isn’t rising as fast as it once was, especially for college graduates who don’t get an advanced degree.

2011 June 25, David Leonhardt, “Even for Cashiers, College Pays Off”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-02-03:

(education) A university degree, such as an MSc or PhD, awarded after a baccalaureate on completion of a further program of academic studies.


MEM

Master of Engineering Management
w:Master of Engineering Management

(education) Initialism of Master of Engineering Management.

Master of Environmental Management
w:Master of Environmental Management

(education) Initialism of Master of Environmental Management.


bat and ball

(Australia, dated, education) A style of handwriting with distinct circles and straight lines, rather than a more cursive style.


keyworker

keyworkers (plural)
key worker (alternative)

(UK, education) A childcare worker who monitors a child's development and participation in activities and discusses these with the child's parents or carer.


beacon school

From the figurative sense of beacon, since such schools were supposed to serve as an example to others.

(UK, education) A primary school or secondary school designated as outstanding under a government scheme that ran from 1998 to 2005.


Waldorfian

en-adj

Waldorfian (comparative more Waldorfian, superlative most Waldorfian)

more Waldorfian (comparative)
most Waldorfian (superlative)

(education) Of or relating to Waldorf education.


IIT

Two years ago, when he’d started high school, Ma and Papa had launched a campaign to get him into IIT, hunting down private tutors who guaranteed success on billboards in Hazratganj city centre, finding question papers from previous years, notes from illustrious seniors, advice from inspirational students.

2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 79:

Indian Institute of Technology
w:Indian Institute of Technology

(education, India) Abbreviation of Indian Institute of Technology.


HEFCE

w:Higher Education Funding Council for England

(education) Initialism of Higher Education Funding Council for England.


assistant professor

en-noun

assistant professor (plural assistant professors)

(education) An entry-level position in a university faculty, lower than an associate professor and a full professor.

tanársegéd

the lowest degree, approx. assistant lecturer


CLE

(Philippines, Christianity, education) Initialism of Christian Living Education.


A&P

(medicine, education) Initialism of anatomy and physiology.


rubber room

The film briefly visits a “rubber room” in New York City where idle teachers accused of misconduct wait months and sometimes years for hearings while drawing full salaries.

2010 September 23, Stephen Holden, “Movie Review: Waiting for 'Superman' (2010)”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-08-07:

The findings dropped the day before the one-year anniversary of his idling away in the rubber room, where teachers await disciplinary hearings.

2013 April 25, Corinne Lestch, “Report substantiates misuse of school property accusations against 'rubber roomed' teacher”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 2014-08-07:

(idiomatic, education) Especially in New York City, a temporary workplace assigned to a teacher who is not permitted to teach in a classroom because he or she is under disciplinary review.


Kumon method

Named after its Japanese founder, Toru Kumon.

(education) A mathematics and reading program through which students work at their own pace, intended to supplement school lessons.


resistant materials

This is clear, for example, in the case of GCSE D&T, where students have to follow a core course in resistant materials but can gain a GCSE by combining this with another course in food technology or textiles technology

2000, Carrie Paechter, Changing School Subjects, →ISBN, page 43:

We heard of a school that distributed timetables one week before the end of term; a boy who had been studying resistant materials throughout year 10 had food technology on his timetable.

2004, Adrian Percival, Susan Tranter, How to Run Your School Successfully, →ISBN, page 112:

There is some evidence that this may be the case with girls taking electronics, and systems and controls, and this is also the case in the advanced-level examinations but it does not hold for those girls choosing to study resistant materials or for those boys choosing to study textiles and food technology.

2013, Patricia Murphy, “Gender and Technology”, in Defining Technological Literacy: Towards an Epistemological Framework, →ISBN, page 224:

design and technology
design and technology

(education, UK) A school subject combining elements of woodwork, metalwork and plastic-work, sometimes a module of a larger design and technology syllabus.


HEA

Higher Education Academy
w:Higher Education Academy

(UK, education) Initialism of Higher Education Academy.


e-confident

en-adj

e-confident (comparative more e-confident, superlative most e-confident)

more e-confident (comparative)
most e-confident (superlative)

In these e-confident schools, the school workforce will also have potential access to the whole of the profession and be in a position to benchmark their practices, share ideas, critique and build new knowledge and professional practice […]

2004, Martin Coles, Geoff Southworth, Developing Leadership: Creating The Schools of Tomorrow:

information technology
information technology

(UK, education) Confident in the use and teaching of information technology.


e-confidence

(UK, education) Confidence in the use and teaching of information technology.


HSCT

en-noun

HSCT (countable and uncountable, plural HSCTs)

(US, education, historical) Initialism of high-school competency test. (a standardized test previously used by high schools in Florida)


senior school

The plaque is dedicated to Sir Henry Fowler (1870-1938), locomotive engineer and Chief Mechanical Engineer at both the Midland (from 1909) and LMS (from 1925). He was born and raised in the town, and attended the same senior school (Prince Henry's) as I did.

2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Evesham (1870)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 59:


AGCAS

(UK, education) Initialism of Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services.


antivoucher

en-adj

antivoucher (comparative more antivoucher, superlative most antivoucher)

more antivoucher (comparative)
most antivoucher (superlative)

(education) Opposing a school voucher scheme.


paideia

From Ancient Greek παιδείᾱ (paideíā, “rearing of a child, education”), from παιδεύω (paideúō, “rear a child”) + -ίᾱ (-íā), from παῖς (paîs, “child”).

suffix

(Ancient Greece, historical, education) An Athenian system of education designed to give students a broad cultural background focusing on integration into the public life of the city-state with subject matter including gymnastics, grammar, rhetoric, music, mathematics, geography, natural history, and philosophy

(Ancient Greece, historical, education) The epitome of physical and intellectual achievement to which an Ancient Greek citizen could aspire; societal and cultural perfection.

(Early Christianity, historical, education) An early model of Christian higher learning having theology as its chief subject.

(US, education, frequently attributive) A pedagogical system focusing on providing children with a broad and balanced education.


monograde

(education) Relating to students of the same grade level.


NEST

(education) Initialism of native English-speaking teacher.


flipped learning

(education) A system of education in which students learn new material by watching video lectures outside the classroom, and what used to be homework (assigned problems) is done in guided classes instead.


RSE

(UK, education) Initialism of relationships and sex education.


Baker day

After Kenneth Baker, the minister who introduced them in 1988 as part of a series of education reforms.


INSET day

Coordinate term: teacher workday

(UK, education) A day during term-time on which pupils do not attend school, but staff take part in training or complete administrative tasks.


prenursery

(agriculture, education) Before entering a nursery.


student loan

(education, finance) A loan granted to a student in higher education to help pay for the tuition.


Chautauqua system

(education, historical) The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, New York, by the Methodist Episcopal bishop John Heyl Vincent.


transmissionism

Teaching and learning methods were therefore forced to perpetuate transmissionism and traditional assessment approaches, given that attention to the individual was completely out of question.

2010, Valerie Pellatt, Kate Griffiths, Shao-Chuan Wu, Teaching and Testing Interpreting and Translating, page 156:

(education) A teaching style focused on transmitting facts without regard to the individual student.


word method

(education) A method of teaching reading in which words are first taken as single ideograms and later analyzed into their phonetic and alphabetic elements.


Class Day

Princeton's Class Day speaker in 2006 was Bill Clinton

(US, education) In colleges and universities, a day of the commencement season on which the senior class celebrates the completion of its course by exercises conducted by the members, such as the reading of the class histories and poem, the delivery of the class oration, the planting of the class ivy, etc.


metatalk

(linguistics, education) Talk, especially involving academic analysis, about speaking or talking; verbal metadiscourse.


transformationalism

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"That's why you need Transformationalism," he said. "Your mind has to evolve to match this permanent situation of permanent change. You've got to get rid of that instantaneous personality that was frozen in a previous cultural matrix that no longer exists...."

1980, Norman Spinrad, The Mind Game, page 64:

According to Mezirow (2000), transformationalism helps adults make sense of their environment so they can act upon it. This is a complex process in which the personalities of the teachers and learners interact with the educational setting and the political environment. Learners examine themselves and the beliefs they bring to the learning experience.

2007, Edith Valladares McElroy, The Effects of the College Student Success Course on the Retention and Academic Performance of English as a Second Language Students Enrolled in Developmental Reading and English at Central Piedmont Community College, →ISBN, page 5:

For me, this is part of transformationalism. A transformationalist does not just favour change: they foment it.

2010, Anne Boran, Poverty: Malaise of Development, →ISBN, page 57:

At the next level, we must practice transformationalism, which goes hand in hand with unlearning.

2012, Kurt April, Nick D Milton, Performance Through Learning, →ISBN, page v:

(sociology, education) A sociological and educational theory that focuses on the process of learned concepts and skills to reframe and transform unthinking culturally-generated assumptions and cognitive categories.


drillable

To indicate to the business user of the report that more detailed information is available behind the summary group level, the mouse pointer turns into a magnifying glass icon when it floats over a drillable section (for example, the yellow count field of customer contacts, located in the Group Header #1 section).

2006, Neil FizGerald, James Edkins, Annette Jonker, Michael Voloshko, Crystal Reports XI Official Guide, page 188:

If a report has a pivot table with drillable elements, then the report should make the pivot table available through a view selector that also contains a tabular view.

2009, Amy Mayer, Kevin McGinley, Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Dashboard and Report Best Practices, page 19:

We spent some time discussing the notion of 'drillable' experiments, which can be introduced to students at an early age, then periodically revisited and explored in greater detail as students progress through their educational careers.

2015, Vânia Zuin, Liliana Mammino, Worldwide Trends in Green Chemistry Education:

Although spreadability and drillability often work in opposing directions, with spreadable media generally reaching a larger, less engaged audience, and drillable media typically reaching a smaller, yet more engaged one, the possibility exists for a text to be simultaneously spreadable and drillable (Mittell, “Forensic Fandom”).

2017, Matt Yockey, Make Ours Marvel: Media Convergence and a Comics Universe, page 237:

Lost became a bit of a cultural sensation and has inspired a wide range of drillable TV series such as Mr. Robot, Westworld, and Severance. Each of these shows teased the audience with the nature of its basic reality yet had deeply loyal fans who scoured episodes for possible theories concerning the uncertain storylines.

2023, Charles Soukup, Christina R. Foust, Popular Culture in Everyday Life, page 127:

(computing, education, media studies) Supporting a drilldown action in which one can discover more details about a topic or text.

A second explanation and provision for practice of drillable items will reinforce your presentation for those who need a second exposure.

1987, Anita Woolfolk Hoy, Educational Psychology, page 83:

Both the drillable subject matter and the types of test that measure it make cheating especially easy (see p. 229).

2014, Patricia Clark Kenschaft, Math Power: How to Help Your Child Love Math, Even If You Don't, page 200:

Deconstruct complex tasks like speaking a language, playing a sport or writing an essay into a set of small, specific drillable elements.

2023, Tom Sherrington, WalkThru 5-step guides to build great teaching, page 238:

(education) Appropriate for learning through repeated practice (drill).


study guide

(education) A book or other resource intended to provide key notes and concepts for people studying a particular topic or course.


first reader

(education, publishing) A book for children who are learning to read, usually consisting of pictures and some basic words or phrases.


superhead

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They want regular emails, not league tables, and the right to call a teacher, not a new superhead.

2009 March 22, Amelia Hill, “Manners matter more than grades, say parents”, in The Observer:

(informal, UK, education) A specialist headteacher sent, by government or other authority, to reorganise and improve a school that is perceived to be failing.


Pre-U

(UK, education) A school-leaving qualification that is an alternative to A levels.


minilesson

Children eventually bring their book bins to the meeting area for minilessons, and during minilessons they sit beside their reading partners in assigned rug spots.

2001, Lucy McCormick Calkins, The Art of Teaching Reading, →ISBN, page 280:


microlesson

(education) A very short lesson, typically lasting a few minutes.


microteaching

(education) A teaching technique in which short lessons are videotaped and subsequently reviewed by the teacher in order to gauge their success.


gaokao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 高考 (gāokǎo, literally “higher [education] [entrance] examination”).

bor

higher 􂀿education􂁀 􂀿entrance􂁀 examination

In recent years, education officials have made a number of proposals, including revising elementary and middle school textbooks to increase the proportion of guoxue, or the study of Chinese culture, and reducing the importance of English on some versions of the gaokao, or university entrance examination, in favor of a greater emphasis on the Chinese language.

2015 September 30, Amy Qin, “A Fervor to Glimpse ‘China’s Mona Lisa’”, in New York Times:

(China, education) The National Higher Education Entrance Examination held annually in China as a prerequisite for entrance into most forms of higher education.


all-through school

en-noun

all-through school (plural all-through schools)

So called because a pupil can go all the way through the education system without changing schools.

(UK, education) A combined primary school and secondary school.


rising three

(UK, education) A child who will turn three years old during the school term, and may therefore count as a three-year-old for the purposes of registering at a school.


buddy bench

(education) A bench in a school playground where children who are lonely or suffering from bullying, etc., can go to seek friends.


SRE

SRE (countable and uncountable, plural SREs)

Coordinate term: sex education

(education, UK) Initialism of sex and relationship education.


marksheet

(education) A document indicating the marks awarded for academic work.


HWB

HWB (countable and uncountable, plural HWBs)

Hwb (Digital Learning for Wales)
w:Hwb (Digital Learning for Wales)

(education) Initialism of Hwb (Digital Learning for Wales) (a website and collection of online tools provided to all schools in Wales, UK)


elhi

elhi textbooks

During the peak elhi periods, manufacturers are already running 24-hour shifts and are employing outside help in order to meet current demand. Consequently, the only way to increase their capacity is to plan the work more efficiently.

1989, Book Industry Study Group, Strategic Information Services, Elementary-high school textbooks, page 13:

elementary school
elementary school#English

(education, publishing, jargon, often attributive) Clipping of elementary school/high school. In some countries, the period of elementary school through high school.


magic e

Write the following words in a column on a printing tablet or whiteboard: fat, mat, rat, cap, pan, hid, at, and us. Ask your child to wave his magic wand, add an e with his pencil, and see the new words he makes as he adds the magic e.

2011, Susan M. Greve, Phonics for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 114:

(education) A silent e (in certain English words, such as cake and time) that appears to change the pronunciation of the preceding vowel.


scan sheet

multiple-choice question
multiple-choice question

(education) A machine-readable sheet of paper on which a student indicates his or her answers to multiple-choice questions.


little Ivy

(US, education, informal) A small liberal arts college that has the academic quality or prestige of an Ivy League university.


egg crate

egg crate (countable and uncountable, plural egg crates)

egg crates (plural)
eggcrate (alternative)
egg-crate (alternative)
egg-crating (alternative)
egg crating (alternative)

Classrooms became larger, but the egg crate design was maintained.

1976, Richard D. Fish, Bradley M. Loomer, Elementary Open-space Schools:

Much like teachers are sometimes described as working in their separate little egg crates, school administrators can also be very isolated from one another.

2009, Identifying the Needs of Beginning Elementary School, →ISBN, page 1:

Lortie coined the phrase "egg crate school," which refers to a type of organization wherein "each teacher was assigned specific areas of responsibility and was expected to teach students the stipulated knowledge and skills without assistance from others."

2003, Gail Bush, The School Buddy System: The Practice of Collaboration, →ISBN, page 20:

Egg crates are a much less satisfactory model for schools.

2013, William Powell, Ochan Kusuma-Powell, Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Teacher, →ISBN, page 152:

(countable, education) A self-contained class that has no collaboration or interaction with any other class, and which is the sole responsibility of a single teacher.


full ride

The Ivy Group and the Big Ten were the most notable conferences to initially avoid full ride scholarships.

2007, Applying Amateurism in the Global Sports Arena, →ISBN, page 22:

If you showed half the interest in school as most of the kids, you could get a full ride to any college in the country.

2009, James E. Davis, 2049, →ISBN, page 233:

For some reason, his college counselor saw talent in Ron that he didn't see himself, and when the SAT scores came out, Ron was offered a full ride to Louisiana State.

2012, Kaira Rouda, All The Difference, →ISBN, page 121:

But because we didn't have any money, the notion of applying to a college that specialized in theater— by that time the die was fully cast—seemed a waste of time unless I was going to get a full ride.

2014, Ron Perlman, Easy Street (the Hard Way): A Memoir, →ISBN, page 52:

(idiomatic, education) A scholarship that covers all tuition, and in some cases fees or other educational and living expenses as well.


public Ivy

(US, education, informal) A public university that has the academic quality or prestige of an Ivy League university.


skywrite

en-verb

skywrite (third-person singular simple present skywrites, present participle skywriting, simple past skywrote, past participle skywritten)

skywrites (present singular third-person)
skywriting (participle present)
skywrote (past)
skywritten (participle past)

(education) To spell a word by tracing it in the air with one's finger.


stopout

(education) A student who leaves an academic institution but later returns to continue studying.


erotematic

en-adj

erotematic (comparative more erotematic, superlative most erotematic)

more erotematic (comparative)
most erotematic (superlative)

Borrowed from New Latin erōtēmaticus, from Koine Greek ἐρωτηματικός (erōtēmatikós, “interrogative; relating to questions”), from ἐρώτημα (erṓtēma, “question”) + -ικός (-ikós). Equivalent to obsolete erotema (“question”) + -tic.

der

ἐρωτηματικός

Coordinate term: acroamatic

[Questions] employment here does not mark a shift from the acroamatic (lecture-based) to the erotematic (interrogatory) method, for the answers are not known.

2015, Nils F. Schott, "A Mother to All" in Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World, p. 108, n. 45

(education) Interrogatory, proceeding by means of questions.


MCSD

(education) Initialism of Merced City School District, (a California school district headquartered in Merced)

Merced City School District

(education) Initialism of Metropolitan State University of Denver, (also known as "Metropolitan State College of Denver", a public university in Denver, Colorado)

Metropolitan State University of Denver

(education) Initialism of Muscogee County School District, (the county government agency which operates the public schools of Muscogee County, Georgia)


compulsory education

(law, education) A period of time in a child's life during which the child must receive schooling as required by law.


associate professor

en-noun

associate professor (plural associate professors)

China's current economic challenges will be an "important factor" in Mr Xi's negotiations and "would lead to a stronger desire to stabilise the economic, trade and investment relations with the US", Li Mingjiang, an associate professor at Singapore's S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, told the BBC.

2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC:

(education) A teacher in a higher education institution who ranks above an assistant professor and below a professor.


faggery

Was it to be borne, that when the Slaves had been emancipated in the West Indies, and the Factory children had, been relieved from their incessant labour, that they were still to be doomed to the servile condition of Faggery, and be kept six hours a-day in school?

1839, “The Triumvirate”, in The Carthusian: A Miscellany in Prose and Verse, volume 1, page 182:

And, as faggery was an abuse too venerable and sacred to be touched by profane hands, he lodged no idle complaints.

1853, Thomas De Quincey, “Autobiographic Sketches”, in Philip Van Doren Stern, editor, Selected Writings Of Thomas De Quincey, published 1937, The Nation of London, page 190:

(UK, education, historical) The system in boarding schools whereby younger students acted as servants for older students.


world literature

Comparative literature
comparative literature


EHC

(UK, education) Initialism of education, health, and care.


circle time

circle time (countable and uncountable, plural circle times)

(education) Time spent by a group sitting together to take part in an activity.


foundation degree

foundation degree (plural foundation degrees)

(education, UK) A vocational qualification in higher education, intended to give comprehensive knowledge in a subject to enable the holder to go on to employment or further study in that field.


CertHE

higher education
higher education#English

(education) Abbreviation of certificate of higher education.


visiting scholar

visiting scholar (plural visiting scholars)

(education) A scholar from an institution who visits a host university to teach, lecture or perform research on a particular topic.


social autopsy

social autopsy (plural social autopsies)

(education) The situation where adults help an autistic child to understand what went wrong in a prior social interaction.


J-term

(US, education) Abbreviation of January term.


comprehensivize

en-verb

comprehensivize (third-person singular simple present comprehensivizes, present participle comprehensivizing, simple past and past participle comprehensivized)

comprehensivizes (present singular third-person)
comprehensivizing (participle present)
comprehensivized (participle past)
comprehensivized (past)
comprehensivise (alternative)

comprehensive school
comprehensive school

(UK, education) To adapt the education system to be based on comprehensive schools.


dictogloss

en-noun

dictogloss (countable and uncountable, plural dictoglosses)

(education) A technique for teaching grammatical structures, in which students first take notes as the teacher reads and then, in small groups, attempt to summarize the text in the target language.


REF

(UK, education) Initialism of Research Excellence Framework: a system for assessing the quality of research in higher-education institutions.


abisselfa

Condensed form of A by itself, A. Compare ampersand.

It dawned upon me that abisselfa was an English translation of a-per-se-a, a-by-itself-a. So also e-by-itself-e became ebisselfe. Similarly ibisselfi, obisselfo, ubisselfu. This nomenclature was confined to the vowels as being the only letters that could stand by themselves.

1891, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America:

(obsolete, colloquial, US, education) The letter A when it stands alone within a word, not forming part of a diphthong, etc.


MFL

(education) Initialism of modern foreign languages.


SENCO

(UK, education) Abbreviation of special educational needs coordinator.


DfE

Department for Education
w:Department for Education

(UK, education, UK politics) Initialism of Department for Education.


TIP

w:Technological Institute of the Philippines

(Philippines, education) Initialism of Technological Institute of the Philippines.


ONC

Ordinary National Certificate
w:Ordinary National Certificate

(UK, education) Initialism of Ordinary National Certificate.


B.N.

(education) Initialism of Bachelor of Nursing.


Carnegie unit

Carnegie units (plural)
Carnegie Unit (alternative)

Used since 1906; from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which was itself named after Andrew Carnegie.

(education, US) A time-based unit of measurement used in American secondary schools to track student educational attainment. Each unit represents 120 hours of class or contact time with an instructor over the course of a year.


SIC

(education, chiefly South Carolina) Initialism of School Improvement Council.


EOC

(US, education) Initialism of end-of-course test.


EDGE

(scouting, education) Explain, demonstrate, guide, enable; an educating method.


nonprovided

(UK, education, historical) Of a school: not operated and funded by the school board.


short-answer

fill in the blank
fill in the blank#English

(education, chiefly attributive) A type of question or prompt, especially found in school quizzes and tests, which usually requires the student to write in sentences, as opposed to multiple-choice, fill in the blank, or other question types which require less writing.


L.H.D.

Doctor of Humane Letters
Doctor of Humane Letters#English

(education) Initialism of Doctor of Humane Letters.


Art.D.

(education) Initialism of Doctor of Arts.


Sc.D.

Doctor of Science
Doctor of Science#English

(education) Initialism of Doctor of Science.


UAL

University of the Arts London
w:University of the Arts London

(education) Initialism of University of the Arts London.


ECTS

w:European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System

(education) Initialism of European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System.


academentia

/ˌæ.kəˈdɪˈmɛn.ʃə/

(education, slang) The state of insanity or loss of touch with reality allegedly due to the academic environment.


skid car

skid cars (plural)
skidcar (alternative)

(automotive education) A car with a frame on casters attached to it (a skid frame), which lowers the effective weight of the car on its tires, allowing easy skids, simulating aquaplaning and driving on ice


Michaelmas term

Michaelmas term (plural Michaelmas terms)

Michael (archangel)
Royal Courts of Justice

From Michaelmas + term; Michaelmas is from Michael (“the name of the biblical archangel”) + -mas (suffix indicating a holiday or sacred day), meaning the feast day of St Michael. Michael is derived from Late Latin Michahel, from Koine Greek Μιχαήλ (Mikhaḗl), from Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mîḵāʾēl, “who is like God?”); while -mas is from mass, from Middle English masse, from Old English mæsse (“mass (celebration of the Eucharist)”), from Vulgar Latin *messa (“Eucharist; dismissal”), from Late Latin missa, a noun use of the feminine past participle of Latin mittere, the present active infinitive of mittō (“to dispatch, send; to discharge, release; to dismiss”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange”). The Christian feast day of Michaelmas, 29 September, occurs a few days before the start of this term.

der

There are four terms in the year, viz. 1. Michaelmas term, which begins on the 10th of October, and ends on the 17th of December.

1813, “University Terms, and How Many are Required to be Kept for each Degree”, in The Oxford University Calendar, for the Year 1813, Oxford: […] Munday and Slatter, for J. Parker; and F[rancis] C[harles] and J[ames] Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 65:

Archbishop King's Lecturer lectures, for the two first Terms, upon the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion, with a special reference to the objections against them, and in the third Term, upon the Socinian Controversy. The course of his Assistants is— / Michaelmas Term.—The Gospel of St. Luke, in Greek, as the basis of a harmony. […]

1838, James Thomas O’Brien, “Note F.—Page 5.”, in An Introductory Lecture Delivered in the Divinity School in Trinity College, Dublin, on the First Lecture Day of Michaelmas term, 1837, Dublin: Milliken and Son, […]; London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 71:

(Oxford, Dublin)

(Cambridge)

(education) The first academic term of the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, and other educational institutions, running from October to December; the term was modelled after the legal term, but does not begin and end on the same dates.


Easter term

From Late Middle English ester term (“Christian season of Easter; spring quarter of the year”), from ester (“Easter”) + term, terme (“limit of a span of time; point in time”). Ester is derived from Old English ēastre, apparently from Ēastre (name of a goddess whose festival was celebrated at the vernal equinox), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Austrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“to become light; to dawn”); terme is borrowed from Old French terme, from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end; in Medieval Latin, also a time, period, word, covenant, etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“stump, end, boundary”) (whence also thrum). By surface analysis, Easter + term. The Christian feast day of Easter, which falls between 22 March and 25 April, often occurs during this term. As regards sense 1 (“fourteenth day of the first lunar month of spring”), Easter is the first Sunday following this day.

der

There are four terms in the year, viz. […] 3. Easter term, which begins on the tenth day after Easter Sunday, and ends on the day before Whitsunday.

1813, “University Terms, and How Many are Required to be Kept for each Degree”, in The Oxford University Calendar, for the Year 1813, Oxford: Printed by Munday and Slatter, for J. Parker; and F[rancis] C[harles] and J[ames] Rivington, London, →OCLC, page 65:

(by extension, education) The summer term of the University of Cambridge, and other educational institutions, running from April to June; equivalent to Trinity term at the universities of Oxford and Dublin. The term was modelled after the legal term, but does not begin and end on the same dates.

pääsiäiskausi

third term of the legal year, running from April to May; summer term of the University of Cambridge, and other educational institutions, running from April to June


Trinity term

The Christian feast day of Trinity Sunday, the first Sunday after Whitsunday or Pentecost, occurs during this term; it falls at the end of May or in early June.

There are four terms in the year, viz. […] 4. Trinity term, which begins on Wednesday after Whitsunday, and ends on the Saturday after the Act, which is always on the first Tuesday in July.

(education) The third and final academic term of the universities of Oxford and Dublin, and other educational institutions, running from April to June; equivalent to Easter term at the University of Cambridge. The term was modelled after the legal term, but does not begin and end on the same dates.


general studies

(UK, education) A school subject that assesses reading and writing skills and awareness of current affairs.


epilanguage

en-noun

epilanguage (countable and uncountable, plural epilanguages)

Gombert begins the volume by presenting evidence that in addition to explicit teaching of basic decoding skills, metalinguistic knowledge or epilanguage that children bring into reading is also important.

2003, R. Malatesha Joshi et al., Literacy Acquisition: The Role of Phonology, Morphology and Orthography, IOS Press, published 2003, page v:

2006 Che Kan Leong, "Making explicit children’s implicit epilanguage in learning to read Chinese," in P. Li, H.T. Li, E. Bates & O.J.L. Tzeng (eds.), The Handbook of East Asian psychology, pp. 70-80. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
In making explicit their implicit knowledge of epilanguage within a developmental context, children continually restructure their internal representation of language in order to integrate isolated procedures into a system (Karmiloff-Smith, 1986).

Critical expressions may therefore be statements or entrenched beliefs, or even paradigms, which belong to the epilanguage or background knowledge of sciences.

2012, Werner Leinfellner, “A New Epitheoretical Analysis of Social Theories”, in W. Leinfellner, E. Köhler, editors, Developments in the Methodology of Social Science, Springer Science & Business Media:

(linguistics, education) A more subconscious, self-imposed, form of metalanguage, determining the form in which a message will be uttered.


waystage

Teachers are encouraged to see these common problems as fruitful errors, waystages on the route to mature understanding that they can manipulate and direct in useful ways.

1997, Gavriel Salomon, Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and Educational Considerations:

(education) A stage on the way to successfully learning something, especially a foreign language.


HSAP

(initialism, education) High School Assessment Program.


think-pair-share

think-pair-share (countable and uncountable, plural think-pair-shares)

think-pair-shares (plural)
TPS (alternative)

First proposed by Frank Lyman of the University of Maryland in 1981.

(education) A collaborative teaching strategy in which the teacher poses a question or a problem to the students, and the students are given sufficient time to think and gather their thoughts, after which the teacher asks them to pair themselves and share their thoughts with each other.


think-pair-sharing

(education) The act of using the think-pair-share strategy.


diamante poem

Developed by Iris Tiedt in A New Poetry Form: The Diamante (1969).

(education) A seven-line poem, used to teach writing skills to elementary school children, whose text forms the shape of a lozenge or diamond.


semestered

(education) Operating as a semester school.


semester school

semester school (plural semester schools)

(education) A school that complements a student's secondary education by providing them with the opportunity to step out of their regular school for half an academic year and take part in a more interdisciplinary and experiential curriculum.


gifted education

(education) The special practices, procedures, and theories used in the education of children who have been identified as gifted or talented.


GATE

(education, acronym) gifted and talented education


special educator

special educator (plural special educators)

special education
special education#English

(education) A teacher who specifically teaches children with special needs; a special education teacher.


passing grade

(education) The grade required to pass an exam or other assessment


HBCU

[…] HBCUs. Much of the majority as minority research on the experiences of White students in the HBCU used Schwitzer, Griffin, Ancis, and Thomas' (1999) model of the social adjustment of Black students to a PWI as the framework (Closson[…]

2015 July 1, Ted N. Ingram, Derek Greenfield, Joelle D. Carter, Adriel A. Hilton, Exploring Issues of Diversity within HBCUs, IAP, →ISBN, page 189:

“Congress took the lead on putting the HBCU funding in those bills and passing them. The third COVID-19 bill, passed under President Biden, included as much funding for HBCUs as both of the first two Covid-19 bills under President Trump,” he said.

2024 July 1, Chandelis Duster, “Biden and Trump touted what they’ve done for HBCUs at CNN’s debate. Here’s what their records show”, in CNN:

(US, education) Initialism of historically black college or university.


GCSD

(education) Greenville County School District.


EPQ

Extended Project Qualification
w:Extended Project Qualification

(UK, education) Initialism of Extended Project Qualification.


in-school suspension

in-school suspension (countable and uncountable, plural in-school suspensions)

If I catch you again disobeying the school dress code, you will receive an in-school suspension.

(education) A type of primary and secondary school suspension method in which, for a given period of time, the students being punished are not allowed to go to their regular classes, but are still required to attend school to instead be kept in an alternative setting that usually involves immobility and the performing of school-related activities.


titan primary school

titan primary school (plural titan primary schools)

titan primary schools (plural)
titan primary (alternative)

Those are fine words, but the number of titan primary schools is soaring, with nearly five times the number of primary schools with over 800 pupils than in 2010.

2014, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 389:

(UK, education) A primary school with 800 or more pupils.


subacademic

a subacademic vocational course

(education) Not having full academic status.


out-of-school suspension

out-of-school suspension (countable and uncountable, plural out-of-school suspensions)

(education) A type of primary and secondary school disciplinary method in which, for a given period of time, the students being punished are not allowed to attend school or be on the school campus for any reason.


seat time

Due to the fact that students mostly are sitting at desks during educational courses.

(education) The amount of time a student has spent attending a particular course.


PASS

(education) Initialism of positive alternative to school suspension.


teaching assistant

teaching assistant (plural teaching assistants)

learning disabilities
learning disability

(education) A person who assists a teacher with instructional responsibilities, often by supporting students with learning disabilities or physical disabilities.


SNA

Schools will retain their existing allocation of 18,000 special needs assistants (SNAs) for mainstream classes in the coming academic year, while an extra 1,100 posts will be allocated for special classes, special schools and developing schools. […] Mr Pike said education authorities must find a different way of managing SNA allocations to provide certainty and job security.

2022 May 31, Carl O'Brien, “Number of special needs assistants in mainstream classes to be maintained”, in The Irish Times:

“From day one it was all wrong. They wouldn’t use his PECS book which had been his way to communicate. The Special Needs Assistants (SNA) were holding their hands. But that wasn’t in their assessment of need. They were fully capable of walking around themselves.” […] Gemma said it was especially difficult as the SNA had a close relationship with a member of the board.

2022 September 12, Jennifer Morgan, “An autism class opens. What happens then?”, in Irish Examiner:

(Ireland, education) Initialism of special needs assistant.


medium of instruction

medium of instruction (plural mediums of instruction)

English and Cantonese are the mediums of instruction in most Hong Kong schools at the primary and secondary level.

(education, sociolinguistics) A language used in teaching.


untrack

en-verb

untrack (third-person singular simple present untracks, present participle untracking, simple past and past participle untracked)

untracks (present singular third-person)
untracking (participle present)
untracked (participle past)
untracked (past)

(transitive, education) To change (an educational course) so that students are no longer ranked by ability.


low-residency

(Canada, US, education) Involving some amount of distance education and brief on-campus or on-site residencies.


MSE

en-noun

MSE (countable and uncountable, plural MSEs)

Master of Science in Engineering
w:Master of Science in Engineering

(education) Initialism of Master of Science in Engineering.


K through 12

We know we don't do a good job of tracking children in K through 12 into engineering.

2002, National Academy of Engineering, Committee on Diversity in the Engineering Workforce, Diversity in Engineering: Managing the Workforce of the Future:

(US, education) Kindergarten through twelfth grade.


scab duty

scab duty (countable and uncountable, plural scab duties)

(Australia, education) The act of being made to pick up litter, especially as a punishment.


RPL

(education) Initialism of recognition of prior learning.


Maymester

(education) A very short semester or term offered at some colleges that lasts at least a portion of the month of May, and sometimes also June.


Robbins principle

From its appearance in the 1963 Robbins Report from the Committee on Higher Education, chaired by Lord Robbins.

(UK, education) The idea that university places should be available to everybody who qualifies for them by ability and attainment.


microdegree

In addition to the aforementioned advantages of microdegrees, they can be used to provide quicker assessment of qualification within a longer degree program.

2021, Andreas Kaplan, Higher Education at the Crossroads of Disruption:

(education) A small degree (qualification in a course of study).


AFA

AFA (countable and uncountable, plural AFAs)

(Philippines, education) Initialism of agricultural and fisheries arts, one of the strands under the TVL track in senior high school.


block graph

(mathematics, education) A simple two-dimensional bar chart that shows amounts or quantities as blocks.


LAC

(UK, education) Initialism of looked-after children.


backpack funding

In reference to the backpacks in which students carry their belongings to school.

(US, education) A form of education funding where money is allocated to individual students and not to school districts.


lockdown browser

lockdown browser (plural lockdown browsers)

(education) A software package, essentially a restricted web browser, that prevents users from navigating away from a particular online task, commonly used when holding tests, quizzes, etc.


EYFS

(UK, education) Initialism of Early Years Foundation Stage.


IEP

IEP child

Lanya (Lane) McKittrick, a Seattle-based mother who has IEPs for three of four children, understands this fundamentally. Two of her IEP children are deaf and blind; the youngest also suffers from anxiety and ADHD, and the third has severe learning disabilities and ADHD.

2020 September 24, Matt Vilano, “Students with special needs face virtual learning challenges”, in CNN:

Individualized Education Program
w:Individualized Education Program

(US, education) Initialism of Individualized Education Program.


APUSH

(US, education) Acronym of Advanced Placement United States History.


BTFO

I only knew it had something to do with plans for a diversity panel during BTFO.

2017, Melinda Worth Popham, Grace Period: My Ordination to the Ordinary, →ISBN:

(US, education) Initialism of Before the Fall Orientation.


SOSE

(education) Initialism of Studies of society and environment.


WHAP

Advanced Placement World History
w:AP World History

(US, education) Initialism of Advanced Placement World History.


SAO

SAO (countable and uncountable, plural SAOs)

(education) Initialism of school attendance order.


SSDL

1994, Grow: In defense of the staged self-directed learning model;;:

Staged Self-Directed Learning
Staged Self-Directed Learning#English

(education) Initialism of Staged Self-Directed Learning.


spelling word

(US, education, set phrase) A word, especially among several others, for which the spelling is supposed to be memorized and practiced before an upcoming quiz or test in which all of such words are covered.


teacher workday

teacher workday (plural teacher workdays)

teacher workdays (plural)
teacher work day (alternative)

(education, US) A day when students do not attend school, but when teachers still come to school to work.


breakfast club

(UK, education) A facility to provide children with a morning meal at school, before classes.


key stage

key stages (plural)
Key Stage (alternative)

(UK, Ireland, education) Any of the sequential stages of attainment in the state education system of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar, specifying the knowledge expected of students at various ages.


band camp

Coordinate term: summer camp

(education, music) An intensive program organised for primary, secondary or tertiary students of instrumental music, usually the members of a school band or several such bands, typically lasting a number of weeks and integrating rehearsals with social activities.


weeder class

While the benefits of weeder classes may be dubious in the short run, they definitely pay dividends in the long run. They spur necessary competition among students, which prepares them for the rigors of upper division classes and their careers.

2015 November 18, Aurash Jalalian, “Weeder Courses Are Par For the Course”, in The Bottom Line:

Many may argue that pass-fail is the “easy way out.” However, a pass-fail weeder class may be more helpful than a traditional weeder class. Pass-fail gives students flexibility and time to learn content and material at their own pace.

2024 September 16, Opinion Department, “TIAS | It’s Time to Weed Out Weeder Courses”, in The Cornell Daily Sun:

(US, education, colloquial) An introductory university course that is designed to "weed out" those students who are not able to pass it.


weeder course

Occasionally, people who oppose weeder courses contend that they disincentivize learning and force students to study just for the sake of achieving “the grade.” In some ways, the opposition is right on the money.

Practically, it can be seen clearly that weeder courses are not equalizers. In fact, they exacerbate inequality and continue to push wealthy and privileged students to the top while putting down minority and low-income students.


NQF

National Qualifications Framework
w:National Qualifications Framework

(education) Initialism of National Qualifications Framework.


CEFRL

w:Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

(education) Initialism of Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.


TOEIC

w:Test of English for International Communication

(education) Initialism of Test of English for International Communication.


adult learner

(education) A student over the age of 25 who is enrolled at an institute of higher learning.

(literal translation; no exact concept exists) 成年學習者 /成年学习者 (chéngnián xuéxízhě)


mature-age student

mature-age student (plural mature-age students)


TPR

TPR (countable and uncountable, plural TPRs)

total physical response
total physical response#English

(education) Initialism of total physical response.


consequential mark

consequential mark (plural consequential marks)

I wrote 5 instead of 6 on the second line of my working, so my answer came out as –4 instead of 30, but thanks to consequential marks I still got 4 marks out of 6.

Does the scheme allow 'consequential' marks when an early mistake affects later parts of an answer?

1989, Phil Race, The open learning handbook, page 87:

You can still pick up 'method' and 'consequential' marks if you make mistakes early in the question.

2006, Mike Cody, VCE Mathematical Methods, →ISBN, page 93:

This is an example of a question in which consequential marks were available even if an earlier part of the calculation was incorrect.

2008, Andrew Hume, Chemistry VCE 3 & 4, →ISBN, page 7:

(education) A mark awarded to a student when assessing their work, on the basis that they followed the correct method despite arriving at an incorrect result or conclusion due to an earlier error in the work.


nonconserver

(education, psychology) A person who has not yet learned that certain properties of objects, such as the volume of a liquid or the number of items in a set, are conserved during physical transformations.


conflict training

(education, psychology) A Piagetian form of cognitive training in which a person who does not yet understand a concept and others who do understand it are encouraged to discuss it as a group and formulate a consensus.


Ofqual

(UK, education) Initialism of Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation.


reading list

(education) A list of books, passages, and/or articles that are required or recommended reading as part of a course of study, project, etc.


metaliterate

en-adj

metaliterate (comparative more metaliterate, superlative most metaliterate)

more metaliterate (comparative)
most metaliterate (superlative)

information technology
information technology

(education) Both e-literate (competent with information technology) and able to discern between, and critically evaluate, information obtained from various digital sources.


GSI

(US, education) Initialism of graduate student instructor.


pass/no pass

(education, attributive) A type of grading system where a student either passes or fails a class, and no specific grade (such as A, B or C) is given.


disciplinism

(education, historical) An educational approach aiming to foster effective thought and action.


disciplinist

Or, to put the three views concretely, the formal disciplinist would say that training the reasoning power by mathematics would make one a better lawyer or medical diagnostician; the non-transferrist would say that training in geometry helped geometry but had nothing to do with, say, trigonometry, except in so far as you used identical factors in both; and the inductionist would grant a slight transfer from one form of mathematics to a similar form, regardless of a common element, while denying any appreciable spread to legal reasoning or medical diagnosis.

1918, California Teachers Association, CTA Journal - Volume 14, page 392:

The function of education to a formal disciplinist is to train the faculties.

1956, George Willard Frasier, An introduction to the study of education, page 135:

But, since the distinction is not obvious at first glance and also since both before and after Locke the word "faculty" was also used the other way, it seemingly was quite easy to make of Locke a formal disciplinist.

1966, Ernest Edward Bayles, Bruce Lamont Hood, Growth of American Educational Thought and Practice, page 62:

The aim of a liberal/perennial education is to discipline or exercise the mind (a mental disciplinist approach) through the study of absolutes, often articulated in the form of principles.

1998, Bruce Spencer, Sue M. Scott, Alan M. Thomas, Learning for Life: Canadian Readings in Adult Education, page 100:

(education, historical) A proponent of disciplinism.


eight-legged essay

In "Notes of Ling-hsiao and I-shih," Kuo-wen chou-pao, chüan 9, No. 28, July 18, 1932, p. 1, Chang Ch'ien, native of Nan-t'ung, Kiangsu, who later founded the big cotton mills, is described as beginning to study poem and eight-legged essay writing at twelve, becoming sheng-yüan at the early age of sixteen.

1967, Chung-li Chang, “Preparation for Examination — A Major Activity of the Gentry”, in The Chinese Gentry Studies on Their Role in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Society, University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 166:

imperial examination
imperial examination

(education, historical) A portion of the Chinese imperial examination that consisted of writing an essay consisting of eight parts.


permission slip

en-noun

permission slip (plural permission slips)

Julie DeLongpre: Um, can someone please just sign my permission slip?
Richard DeLongpre: Julie, there she is! What did you do today?
Julie: Well, let's see I went to school, I got a permission slip, I asked you to sign it, …

2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)

(US, education) A paper form that a school sends home with a student to a parent, onto which the parent provides authorization for the student to attend a certain event, such as a field trip.


perennialism

Educational perennialism
Perennial philosophy

(education) A normative educational philosophy according to which one should teach the things that are of everlasting relevance to all people everywhere, and that the emphasis should be on principles, not facts.


voluntary aided school

voluntary aided school (plural voluntary aided schools)

(UK, education) A state-funded school in which a (usually religious) foundation or trust contributes to building costs and has a substantial influence in running the school.


voluntary controlled school

voluntary controlled school (plural voluntary controlled schools)

voluntary aided school
voluntary aided school

(UK, education) A state-funded school in which a (usually religious) foundation or trust has some formal influence in running the school, but less than for a voluntary aided school.


elementary algebra

After 1820 we find elementary algebra commencing to be a required subject for admission. Columbia required it in 1821, Yale in 1847, and Princeton in 1848.

1920, Inez Dale Powelson, The History of the Teaching of Elementary Algebra, University of California, Berkeley, page 28:

1939, Regina Grosswege, Learning Activities in Elementary Algebra, College Entrance Book Company, unnumbered page,
A perusal of the following outstanding features of this workbook will show how this book has been designed to enable the student to master elementary algebra in a thoroughly efficient and interesting manner.

2006, Richard N. Aufmann, Vernon C. Barker, Joanne S. Lockwood, Essentials of Elementary Algebra, Houghton Mifflin:

(mathematics, education) An informally defined area of algebra considered suitable to be taught to secondary school students.

beginning algebra

algebra deemed suitable for secondary students


gentleman-commoner

Unfortunately for the college, there were a very large proportion of the gentleman-commoners.

1859, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, published 1888, page 10:

(UK, education, historical) At the University of Oxford, a student paying higher fees and ranking above commoners, but below noblemen.


needs-blind

(education) Of an educational institution: accepting pupils based on academic ability etc., rather than their ability to afford the fees.


middle college

First applied to a program in New York City in 1974.

Following the traditional middle college high school model, students combine high school and college work but also have the opportunity to begin advanced work in technical and occupational education.

2015, James R. Stone III, Morgan V. Lewis, College and Career Ready in the 21st Century: Making High School Matter, page 137:

(education) An alternative secondary education program that blends aspects of high school and community college.


yeargroup

yeargroups (plural)
year-group (alternative)

Social units intermediate in size between the individual and the whole school are discussed. These units are the year-groups, seen as developing collective perspectives which follow from the interaction between students' initial perspectives and their shared experiences, and the fraternities which were seen to structure daily social interaction.

1992, Charles C. Ragin, Howard Saul Becker, What Is a Case?: Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry:

Some yeargroups broke down into cliques, usually dividing between the two primary training groups: hand-to-hand combat versus the marksmen.

2016, J. Kathleen Cheney, Dreaming Death, page 255:

(education) The body of students corresponding to a particular grade level or year of study.


International Baccalaureate

(education) A rigorous educational program for high school students, focused on developing critical thinking, collaboration, and reflection skills.


content knowledge

(education) Knowledge of specific facts and techniques (such as dates in history and mathematical equations), as opposed to general thinking skills.


third grader

third graders (plural)
3rd grader (alternative)
third-grader (alternative)

(US, education) A pupil who is in third grade.


sandwich degree

sandwich degree (plural sandwich degrees)

→ Hungarian: szendvics képzés (calque)

desc

→ Portuguese: graduação-sanduíche (calque)

(UK, education) An undergraduate course of study incorporating a placement or internship year.


heritage interpretation

en-noun

heritage interpretation (countable and uncountable, plural heritage interpretations)

(museology, education) The practice and discipline of explaining natural and cultural heritage, used in museums, zoos, historic sites, galleries, etc.

interpretirane na kulturnoto i prirodno nasledstvo

интерпретиране на културното и природно наследство

ermineía fysikís kai politistikís klironomiá

ερμηνεία φυσικής και πολιτιστικής κληρονομιά


in statu pupillari

(England, education) In the state of pupilage; subject to the rules of a college or university as they apply to junior members.


TOCFL

Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language
w:Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language

(education) Initialism of Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language, standardized test of Standard Mandarin Chinese proficiency for non-native speakers


whole child

the whole child concept

a whole child initiative

(education, chiefly attributive) A child seen not only as a client of the education system but also as a person whose play habits, home life, etc. contribute to their development.


connectivism

(education) A theory of learning that focuses on the modern digital age and emphasizes the role of social and cultural context in how and where learning occurs.


off-roll

en-verb

off-roll (third-person singular simple present off-rolls, present participle off-rolling, simple past and past participle off-rolled)

off-rolls (present singular third-person)
off-rolling (participle present)
off-rolled (participle past)
off-rolled (past)

(UK, education, transitive) To remove (a pupil) from the list of those enrolled at a school, for illegitimate reasons such as improving the school's examination rankings.


pair and share

pair and share (third-person singular simple present pairs and shares, present participle pairing and sharing, simple past and past participle paired and shared)

pairs and shares (present singular third-person)
pairing and sharing (participle present)
paired and shared (participle past)
paired and shared (past)

(education) To form pairs to compare each other's answers to an exercise.


pair and share

(education) The act of forming pairs to compare each other's answers to an exercise.


transfer exam

(education) An exam taken in order to assess whether one can move from one stream of academic study to another.


interest inventory

en-noun

interest inventory (plural interest inventories)

(education) A list of a person's areas of interest, generated from a standardized test and used to suggest careers they might like to pursue.


antirequisite

From anti- + requisite; in the education sense, contrasted with prerequisite.

Antirequisites affect the availability of a course in the opposite direction; if the antirequisite of course A has been taken, then the student cannot enroll in course A.

2010, Austin L. Toombs, The impact of curriculum visualization on decision making among students: an honors thesis (HONRS 499) (Ball State University):

. Some never stop talking about antirequisites. Others always advocate for splitting courses, and most get angry when the administration does not enforce prerequisites and corequisites.

2014, Julian Hermida, Facilitating Deep Learning, →ISBN:

Those indicating the student had taken a previous university French course were discarded, as were a small number of questionnaires indicating a Francophone family background (an antirequisite for both of these intermediate level courses)

2014, Kerry Lappin-Fortin, “Comparing written competency in core French and French immersion graduates”, in Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, volume 17, number 2:

(education) A previous course (or learning experience) that overlaps in content with a course offering such that students may not take that course offering for academic credit.


quick-write

My students enjoyed doing a quick-write using this excerpt from Eve Bunting's novel SOS Titanic.

2001, Lola M. Schaefer, Teaching Narrative Writing, page 43:

(education) A short piece of writing, typically a few sentences long, assigned to students to help them to summarize a concept.


adjunct professor

adjunct professor (plural adjunct professors)

(US, education) A college professor who is employed part-time or for a limited time, is junior to a full professor, or is otherwise not eligible for tenure.


usage guide

There is also a gap between the general population and the falling-standards bemoaners, usage guide publishers, and language pundits, whether conservative or progressive.

2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 114:

(linguistics, education) A book that explains how to use a standardised language correctly and in keeping with currently accepted style, usually through the explication of what are conservatively viewed as language "errors".


number sentence

number sentence (plural number sentences)

(mathematics, education) An equation or inequality expressed with numbers and operators, such as 3 + 6 < 10.


basic education

basic education (countable and uncountable, plural basic educations)

(education) Education consisting of the two stages of primary education and lower secondary education.


thick sandwich degree

thick sandwich degree (plural thick sandwich degrees)

(UK, education) A sandwich degree where the placement or internship takes up a whole unbroken year.


thin sandwich degree

thin sandwich degree (plural thin sandwich degrees)

(UK, education) A sandwich degree involving multiple short placements or internships rather than one that lasts a whole year.


mastery learning

(education) A teaching philosophy stating that students must achieve a level of mastery in each topic (e.g. 90% in a test) before moving on to further topics.


flipped mastery

(education) The combination of flipped learning and mastery learning.


top-slicing

(UK, education) An arrangement whereby part of an educational institution's income is set aside to fund operational costs.


interdiscipline

(education) An academic field that consists of two or more disciplines.


DLP

Dual Language Programme
Dual Language Programme#English

(Malaysia, education) Initialism of Dual Language Programme.


two percenter

"Those are the 'two percenters,' " Becky said of the students who ran on the field, "the two percent of Aggie students who don't have the spirit."

1992, Edward Zuckerman, Small Fortunes: Two Guys in Pursuit of the American Dream, page 102:

Students who forgo Midnight Yell and other traditional activities are dismissed as "2 percenters."

2005, U.S. News Guide, America's Best Colleges, page 41:

[…] 'Anything you do twice is a tradition,' 'Don't be a 2 percenter.' You learn about The Bonfire, Aggie Muster, and Silver Taps. […] Isn't it fascinating to see how an amazing team-oriented culture in one institution (Texas A&M) can inspire a fantastic culture in a totally different and separate organization (Rackspace)?

2013, Bill Schley, The UnStoppables: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial Power, page 143:

Detractor two percenters diminish momentum. Wet blankets can put fires out! True Aggies are all Twelfth Men and learn the importance of yelling for the team instead of (like most other schools and some “two percenters”) mainly yelling at them.

2016, Barry Bauerschlag, Aggie Spirit 101: Greater Love:

She’s an Aggie, but she never got into any of the lore there, not even a little bit. She’s a proud “two percenter,” as they call such people in College Station.

2017 October, “An Oral History of Watching (and Not Watching) the Last Three Innings of That Crazy Astros Game”, in Texas Monthly:

(US, education, informal) A student of Texas A&M University who only attends classes and does not participate in student activities or traditions.


gut course

(education, slang) An easy, unchallenging course.


NCS

(Hong Kong, education) Initialism of non-Chinese speaking.


SEND

(UK, education) Acronym of special educational needs and disability.


academy chain

multi-academy trust
multi-academy trust#English

(UK, education) Synonym of multi-academy trust


multi-academy trust

multi-academy trust (plural multi-academy trusts)

(UK, education) A trust that operates more than one academy school.


IBI

IBI (countable and uncountable, plural IBIs)

(education, uncountable) Initialism of inquiry-based instruction.


STh

(education) Abbreviation of student in theology.


detrack

en-verb

detrack (third-person singular simple present detracks, present participle detracking, simple past and past participle detracked)

detracks (present singular third-person)
detracking (participle present)
detracked (participle past)
detracked (past)

(transitive, education) To eliminate a system of tracking, where pupils are taught separately according to perceived ability level, from (a school).


destream

destream (third-person singular simple present destreams, present participle destreaming, simple past and past participle destreamed)

destreams (present singular third-person)
destreaming (participle present)
destreamed (participle past)
destreamed (past)

(transitive, education) Synonym of detrack (“eliminate separate teaching based on pupils' ability level”)


progressive education

(education) A pedagogical movement that began in the late 19th century and replaced classically-based rote learning with hands-on experience, critical thinking, and social skills.


backward design

Backward design can be applied to medical education by beginning with the national standards or competencies for medical education, defining outcomes and assessment methods, and then defining curricular content.

2016, Jill Stefaniak, Advancing Medical Education Through Strategic Instructional Design:

(education) A method of designing an educational curriculum by setting goals before choosing instructional methods and forms of assessment.


VAP

en-noun

VAP (countable and uncountable, plural VAPs)

assistant professor
assistant professor#English

(education) Abbreviation of visiting assistant professor.


ball and stick

The handwriting sense derives from the resemblance of the circular and linear elements of the letters to a ball and a stick.

(education) A style of handwriting in which the letters are not joined and feature straight lines and circular arcs; block letters.


ADDIE

instructional design
instructional design

instructional designer
instructional designer

(education) Acronym of analysis, design, development, implementation, evaluation: an instructional design framework that many instructional designers and training developers use to develop courses.


IIIT

w:International Institutes of Information Technology

(education, India) Initialism of International Institutes of Information Technology (one of a group of nationally recognized autonomous engineering institutes of India.)


PTM

(education) Initialism of parent–teacher meeting.


tasksheet

(chiefly education) A list of tasks to be performed or exercises to be completed.


ERIC

(education) Acronym of everybody reading in class (“a session in which pupils read books”).


student voice

This suggests that using digital technologies to facilitate feedback in Student Voice contexts might prove to be highly effective.

2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1082:

(education) An educational philosophy which encourages student participation and engagement in the teaching and learning process, rather than having learning wholly guided by the educator.


in-class

The teacher checked digital feedback when students were doing reading tasks, group discussions, or other in-class activities.

2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1083:

(education) Occurring while a class or lesson is taking place.


grid-in

(education) A mathematical question on a test in which the answer must be placed on a grid that is preprinted on the answer sheet.


answer sheet

You must write your name at the top of each answer sheet.

(education) A sheet of paper supplemental to an assessment onto which the answers to the questions must be written.


E&G

E&G funds

(education) Initialism of educational and general.


CEFR

w:Common European Framework of Reference

(education) Initialism of Common European Framework of Reference.


thirteenth grade

thirteenth grade (plural thirteenth grades)

(US, education) The year in school that comes after twelfth grade in some schools in the US, and that came after twelfth grade before 1988 in Ontario, Canada.

kolmastoista luokka

does not technically exist in Finland, but sometimes used of the third year in lukio

You went to community college? That's nothing but the thirteenth grade

secondary education
secondary education#English

(US, education, derogatory, humorous) A reference to college as nothing more than a continuation of high school, since secondary education typically ends after the twelfth grade.


zeroth grade

zeroth grades (plural)
0th grade (alternative)

(US, education) A hypothetical year of grade school before first grade.


first grader

first graders (plural)
1st grader (alternative)
first-grader (alternative)

(US, education) A pupil who is in first grade.


second grader

second graders (plural)
2nd grader (alternative)
second-grader (alternative)

(US, education) A pupil who is in second grade.


fourth grader

fourth graders (plural)
4th grader (alternative)
fourth-grader (alternative)

(US, education) A pupil who is in fourth grade.


fifth grader

fifth graders (plural)
5th grader (alternative)
fifth-grader (alternative)

(US, education) A pupil who is in fifth grade.


sixth grader

sixth graders (plural)
6th grader (alternative)
sixth-grader (alternative)

(US, education) A pupil who is in sixth grade.


seventh grader

seventh graders (plural)
7th grader (alternative)
seventh-grader (alternative)

(US, education) A pupil who is in seventh grade.


eighth grader

eighth graders (plural)
8th grader (alternative)
eighth-grader (alternative)

(US, education) A pupil who is in eighth grade.


ninth grader

ninth graders (plural)
9th grader (alternative)
ninth-grader (alternative)

(US, education) A pupil who is in ninth grade.


tenth grader

tenth graders (plural)
10th grader (alternative)
tenth-grader (alternative)

(US, education) A pupil who is in tenth grade.


eleventh grader

eleventh grader (plural eleventh graders)

eleventh graders (plural)
11th grader (alternative)
eleventh-grader (alternative)

(US, education) A pupil who is in eleventh grade.


twelfth grader

twelfth graders (plural)
12th grader (alternative)
twelfth-grader (alternative)

(US, education) A pupil who is in twelfth grade.


thirteenth grader

thirteenth grader (plural thirteenth graders)

thirteenth graders (plural)
13th grader (alternative)
thirteenth-grader (alternative)

(US, education, rare) A pupil who is in thirteenth grade.


reduced isolation

(US, education, often attributive) In Connecticut, the status of a school meeting certain racial diversity quotas.


voc-ed

(education) Clipping of vocational education.


blended learning

(education) The combination of online educational materials and interactions with traditional classroom teaching.


self-blended

(education) Of or relating to a style of blended learning in which students opt to take online courses in addition to their traditional face-to-face learning.


all-boys

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-all-boys.wav

(education, of a school) Providing instruction for male students only.

男子的

providing instruction for male students only


all-girls

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-all-girls.wav

(education, of a school) Providing instruction for female students only.

女子的

providing instruction for female students only


parents' evening

parents' evening (plural parents' evenings)

(UK, education) An evening consisting of short meetings between a parent and their child's teachers to discuss the child's academic progress.


RCEP

continuing education
continuing education#English

(education) Abbreviation of registered continuing education provider.


twice-exceptional

autism spectrum disorder
autism spectrum disorder

(education, psychology) Being a gifted student with some form of disability (dyslexia, autism spectrum disorder etc.), thus considered exceptional both because of one's giftedness and special needs.


twice-exceptionality

twice-exceptionality (countable and uncountable, plural twice-exceptionalities)

(education, psychology) The condition of being twice-exceptional.


EQAO

w:Education Quality and Accountability Office

(Canadian politics, education) Initialism of Education Quality and Accountability Office, a government agency in the province of Ontario that provides accountability of the province's public education system by means of standardized testing.


Evil Questions Attacking Ontario

Evil Questions Attacking Ontario pl (plural only)

Evil Questions Attack Ontario (alternative)

The admittedly 'nervous’ Maneesha Johal, top, and classmates Lee-Anna Maharaj, right, and Amanda Ibe, left, prepare for ‘Evil Questions Attacking Ontario.’

Caroline Alphonso (2013 May 31) “The debate over standardized testing in schools is as divisive as ever”, in The Globe and Mail, archived from the original on 2020-12-17

School boards have said that without the co-operation of teachers, there’s no way they can administer the tests, which teachers have dubbed “evil questions attacking Ontario.”

Kristin Rushowy (2015 May 14) “EQAO standardized testing cancelled over teacher job action”, in Toronto Star, Torstar, archived from the original on 2020-12-17

(Canada, informal, education, derogatory) Standardized tests conducted by the Education Quality and Accountability Office in the province of Ontario.


half blue

half blues (plural)
half-blue (alternative)

(education, athletics) Sporting colors that are awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement at a lower level, or in a more minor sport, than that required to receive a full blue, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge University in England.


discipline-specific

en-adj

discipline-specific (comparative more discipline-specific, superlative most discipline-specific)

more discipline-specific (comparative)
most discipline-specific (superlative)

The extent of a general academic vocabulary has been questioned by previous research that has found vocabulary and lexical bundles vary so much by discipline that a discipline-specific approach to vocabulary instruction should be adopted.

2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 1:

(linguistics, education) Relating to, or forming part of, the typical language used in a particular field of study.


open classroom

Coordinate term: open corridor

(education) A single large room used for teaching a large group of pupils of varying ability, who are typically divided into smaller groups.


transfer test

(UK, Ireland, education) An examination administered to some students in their last year of primary education, governing admission to grammar schools and other secondary schools that use academic selection.


tripartite system

(UK, Ireland, education, historical) The division of state-funded secondary education into three types of school: grammar school, secondary technical school, and secondary modern school; used between 1945 and the 1970s in England and Wales, and from 1947 to 2009 in Northern Ireland. Performance in the 11-plus examination determined which type of school a student would attend.


evening class

I'm doing evening classes in woodworking. Here's a bowl that I made.

(education) A tuitional class held in the evening, typically for adults, and teaching a vocational or academic subject, practical skill, or recreational pursuit.


EFTSL

(education) Initialism of equivalent full time student load.


conditional unconditional

en-noun

conditional unconditional (plural conditional unconditionals)

(UK, education) An offer of a place at a particular university for a student, regardless of their performance in examinations, on the condition that they agree to choose that university over any other.


higher arithmetic

Arithmetic should overlap algebra, because the simpler parts of Algebra are easier than higher arithmetic; and some knowledge of algebra would conduce to a more intelligent appreciation of such topics as proportion, evolution, application of percentage, etc.

1895, Report, Mississippi State Department of Education, page 10:

1898, John Henry Walsh, Mathematics for Common Schools: Part III: Higher Arithmetic, D. C. Heath & Co.:

With division higher arithmetic naturally begins, and for the more advanced pupil it will be proper here to insert a short course on that subject.

1976, Charles S. Peirce, The New Elements of Mathematics, Volume 1: Arithmetic, Mouton Publishers, page 95:

(education, obsolete) A loosely defined range of topics in arithmetic, distinguished from elementary arithmetic by the more advanced nature of the methods and concepts.


access day

(education) A day on which an institution (such as a farm or a university) hosts visitors who come to learn about it.


VET

VET (countable and uncountable, plural VETs)

(education) Initialism of vocational education and training.


teachable moment

teachable moment (plural teachable moments)

(education) The time at which learning a topic becomes easiest.


Stanford-Binet

Named after French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857–1911) and Stanford University, where the technique was further revised (1916).

named-after

Stanford-Binet scale

I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, […] lost a certain touching faith in the totem power of good manners, clean hair, and proven competence on the Stanford-Binet scale.

1968, Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:

Historically, the Stanford–Binet and gifted children have been linked, largely because of the relationship of Lewis Terman to both the Stanford-Binet and his epic longitudinal study of the gifted (Terman, 1925).

1995, Judy Genshaft, Marlene Bireley, Constance L. Hollinger, editors, Serving Gifted and Talented Students, Pro-Ed, →ISBN, page 53:

(education, also attributive) A cognitive ability and intelligence test primarily designed to assess children.


minor in

en-verb

minor in (third-person singular simple present minors in, present participle minoring in, simple past and past participle minored in)

minors in (present singular third-person)
minoring in (participle present)
minored in (participle past)
minored in (past)

(Canada, US, education) To study as or qualify in a subsidiary subject at college or university.


pupil premium

(UK, education) A grant awarded by the government to schools in England for the benefit of disadvantaged students.


core course

...their cooperation should be secured in order to include the subject as a core course in the program of studies.

1934, The Balance Sheet - Volumes 16-17, page 113:

What specifically is a core course? Over the answer to this advocates and the opponents of general education have waged bitter battles.

1948, Earl James McGrath, Social Sciences in General Education, page 77:

As mentioned previously, this is a core course with a relatively large annual enrollment.

1993, CASCON '93: Software engineering, page 130:

(education) An academic class that is one of a subset of mandatory classes required to complete a degree program.


xMOOC

Coordinate term: cMOOC

(education) A MOOC (massive open online course) structured like a traditional course, with a clear syllabus of recorded lectures and self-test problems.


cMOOC

Coordinate term: xMOOC

(education) A MOOC (massive open online course) taking a connectivist approach, focusing on student collaboration and the evolution of teaching materials over time.


NPQH

w:National Professional Qualification for Headship

(UK, education) Initialism of National Professional Qualification for Headship.


SEL

en-noun

SEL (countable and uncountable, plural SELs)

In a March interview conducted over email, Mr. Rufo stated that while social-emotional learning sounds “positive and uncontroversial” in theory, “in practice, SEL serves as a delivery mechanism for radical pedagogies such as critical race theory and gender deconstructionism.”

2022 April 22, Dana Goldstein, Stephanie Saul, quoting Chris Rufo, “A Look Inside the Textbooks That Florida Rejected”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Social–emotional learning
w:Social–emotional learning

(education, uncountable) Initialism of Social–emotional learning.


EHCP

(UK, education) Initialism of education, health and care plan.


STAAR

(US, education) Acronym of State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness.


TEKS

(US, education) Acronym of Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.


pre-AP

en-adj

pre-AP (comparative more pre-AP, superlative most pre-AP)

more pre-AP (comparative)
most pre-AP (superlative)

She signed up for pre-AP classes.

(US, education) Heightened difficulty in preparation for higher learning.


JBHS

James Bowie High School
w:James Bowie High School

(US, education) Initialism of James Bowie High School.


AISD

Austin Independent School District
w:Austin Independent School District

(US, education) Initialism of Austin Independent School District.

w:American International School of Dhaka

(Bangladesh, education) Initialism of American International School of Dhaka.


distributive education

(education) A vocational scheme combining classroom teaching and part-time employment.


wet break

(UK, education) A school playtime when pupils are kept indoors because of rain.


open admission

en-noun

open admission (countable and uncountable, plural open admissions)

(US, education) An unselective and noncompetitive college admissions process, where the only entrance criterion is a high-school diploma or a certificate of attendance or General Educational Development (GED) certificate.


opportunity class

opportunity class (plural opportunity classes)

(Australia, education) A separate primary-school class for teaching gifted children.

Opportunity classes. — These are classes for retarded overgrown pupils. Many of these children come to our city from rural areas where their education has been irregular.

1944, United States. Congress. House, Hearings, volume 9, page 361:

Mildly retarded children, who are usually termed "educable mentally retarded" formed the largest group of handicapped children in Alberta. Most of them attended "Opportunity Classes".

1969, Alberta. Dept. of Education, Annual Report of the Department of Education, page 78:

(historical, education) A separate class for teaching backward children.


opportunity room

opportunity room (plural opportunity rooms)

opportunity class
opportunity class#English

(historical, education) Synonym of opportunity class (“a separate class for teaching backward children”)


JMI

(UK, education) Initialism of junior mixed infant. (designating a school that teaches both infant and junior age ranges)


T Level

(UK, education) A two-year technical course taken after GCSEs and equivalent to three A levels, developed to meet the needs of industry.


A++

(education, sometimes humorous, rare) An academic grade better than one hundred, usually due to extra credit. Better than an A+.


bossy r

(education) The letter r (in certain English words, such as bird and sort) that modifies the pronunciation of the preceding vowel.


SDC

(US, education) Initialism of State Dual Credit.


AQA

(UK, education) Initialism of Assessment and Qualifications Alliance.


e-module

(education) A module (unit of education covering a single topic) delivered and assessed by means of computer technology.


race-norming

(education) In the United States, the practice of adjusting test scores based on the race of the person taking the test.


combined school

combined school (plural combined schools)

The phrase, and the type of school, were originally proposed in the Plowden Report in 1967.

(UK, education) A school accepting pupils from age 4 to 12.


SELT

(education) Acronym of secure English language test (one taken under special conditions to prevent cheating).


extraclassroom

funding for extraclassroom activities


book report

(education) A student's written reflection of a book they have read.


Waldorf education

The first school based upon Steiner's ideas was opened in 1919 in response to a request by Emil Molt of the Waldorf-Astoria Cigarette Company.

(education) A humanistic approach to pedagogy based on the educational philosophy of the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner.


reform mathematics

(mathematics, education) An approach to mathematics education, particularly in North America, that de-emphasizes the strict rote following of algorithms.


RSHE

(UK, education) Initialism of relationships, sex and health education.


wow word

If they think of a wow word, they look it up in a thesaurus and then add it to their own digital text and the poster of wow words on the classroom wall. These words give access to all students to improve and extend writing.

2015, Jane Hunter, Technology Integration and High Possibility Classrooms, page 73:

Identify a WOW word that can be used in the place of nice. Brainstorm several and then settle on one to use as you rewrite the sentence.

2017, Richard Gentry, Getting to the Core of Writing, page 191:

(education) A more interesting or vivid synonym for an everyday word.


contract cheating

(education) The submission of assessment work, such as an assignment or report, that has been ghost-written by someone else.


acquisitionism

Coordinate term: participationism

(education) An approach to learning that focuses on the individual learner acquiring knowledge.


participationism

Coordinate term: acquisitionism

(education) An approach to learning that focuses on the individual learner interacting with other people.


acquisitionist

(education) A proponent of acquisitionism.


participationist

(education) A proponent of participationism.


WALT

(education) Acronym of we are learning to....


WILF

(education) Acronym of what I'm looking for: the teacher's desired outcome when students are set an exercise.


HUMSS

(Philippines, education) Abbreviation of humanities and social sciences.


ECF

error carried forward
error carried forward#English

(education) Initialism of error carried forward.


student hour

student hours (plural)
Student Hour (alternative)

(education, US) A time-based unit of measurement used in American colleges and universities to track student educational attainment. Each unit represents approximately 12 hours of class or contact time with an instructor over the course of a semester.


nonpromotion

nonpromotion (countable and uncountable, plural nonpromotions)

The first group consisted of the Black teachers who expressed ambivalence and concern that students would be emotionally hurt by nonpromotions. The second group consisted of gregarious, highly spirited teachers.

1990, Kofi Lomotey, Going to School: The African-American Experience, page 62:

(US, education) The holding back of a pupil instead of advancing them to the next year of studies.


essay mill

(education, derogatory) An organization that sells prewritten papers to students.


S level

(UK, historical, education) A public examination taken by the most able A-level students and typically used to support university applications, particularly to Oxbridge.


mark-making

(education) Activities by which young children produce physical marks or drawings, such as scribbling with crayons or making patterns in sand.


PBL

Coordinate term: CBL

problem-based learning
w:problem-based learning

(education) Initialism of problem-based learning.


Ask a Stupid Question Day

From the phrase there's no such thing as a stupid question.

(education, chiefly US) A holiday that is sometimes celebrated, usually by school students and teachers, observed on either September 28th or the last school day of September. The purpose of the holiday is to encourage students to ask more questions in the classroom.


continuation school

continuation school (plural continuation schools)

If a boy enters mercantile life, he must for three years attend a continuation school organized by the Merchants' Association […]

1913, United States. Office of Education, Bulletin, numbers 50-58, page 25:

(education, dated) A school offering additional education to young people who have previously left school in order to work.


pen licence

(UK, Australia, education) Permission to use a pen for schoolwork instead of a pencil, granted to a child whose handwriting has reached an acceptable standard.


movable alphabet

movable alphabet (plural movable alphabets)

movable alphabets (plural)
moveable alphabet (alternative)

(education) A set of usually wooden or plastic letters of the alphabet, with the vowels and consonants in different colors, used to teach reading and writing in the Montessori system.


Gratin

(UK, education) A course of study at secondary level in which Ancient Greek and Latin are combined into a single timetabled subject.


MUN

(education) Abbreviation of model United Nations.


HTS

Borrowed from Afrikaans HTS, from hoër + tegniese + skool.

technical high school
technical high school#English

(South Africa, education) Abbreviation of technical high school.


Lent term

(education) The second academic term of the University of Cambridge, and other educational institutions, running from January to March; equivalent to Hilary term at the universities of Oxford and Dublin.


TVL

(Philippines, education) Initialism of technical-vocational livelihood, a track in senior high school.


hidden curriculum

hidden curriculum (plural hidden curriculums or hidden curricula)

hidden curriculums (plural)
hidden curricula (plural)

(education) Knowledge and beliefs that are not explicitly taught in school but which pupils acquire in the school environment.

مَنْهَج خَفِيّ

what is plannedly but inexplicitly taught at an educational institution


VLE

virtual learning environment
w:virtual learning environment

(education) Initialism of virtual learning environment..


weedout

weedout (countable and uncountable, plural weedouts)

a weedout class

a weedout course

(education, informal, attributive) A class that is difficult or requires great effort, and thus may cause less able or less dedicated students to withdraw.


national school

national school (plural national schools)

My immediate inclination was to send her to the nearby Sekolah Kebangsaan - or National School.

2016 November 25, Dharm Navaratnam, “Thank you to everyone in the SK Seri Hartamas community”, in Malaysiakini:

So, physically place a national school next to vernacular schools, join them by physical link-ways, and then they share a common playing field – unity is expected to be generated over time.

2020 April 27, Shamsul Amri Baharuddin, “Urgent task of new National Unity Ministry”, in New Straits Times:

Teo Nie Ching said remove classes were meant to aid students who were not fluent in Malay, which is the medium at national schools.

2022 March 29, Jananey Ramachandran, “Ex-deputy minister, educationist explain need for remove classes”, in Free Malaysia Today:

medium of instruction
medium of instruction

(Malaysia, education) A type of primary school where Malay is the medium of instruction.


vernacular school

vernacular school (plural vernacular schools)

The medium in vernacular schools is either Tamil or Chinese.

(Malaysia, education) A type of primary school where either Mandarin or Tamil is the medium of instruction.


SWBAT

(education) Initialism of student(s) will be able to.... (used in defining learning objectives)


WASL

w:Washington Assessment of Student Learning

(US, education) Initialism of Washington Assessment of Student Learning.


testbank

From test + bank, analogous to databank.

Meronyms: MCQs, multiple-choice questions, word problems, essay questions

The chemistry department hired me to write batches of questions for a testbank.

(education, publishing) A collection of test questions and/or tests; a databank full of such items.


athletocracy

athletocracy (countable and uncountable, plural athletocracies)

(derogatory, education) The situation where students involved in sports are treated better than those who are not.


Nai Talim

(India, education) A principle of basic education for all, with an appreciation for handicrafts and communal self-reliance, promoted by Mahatma Gandhi.


back-to-school night

back-to-school night (plural back-to-school nights)

(US, education) An informational event in the evening where students' guardians meet their students' teachers and are introduced to the routine, curriculum, policy, etc.


closed campus

(education) A campus that forbids unauthorized entry or exit during the school day.


AIIMS

w:All India Institutes of Medical Sciences

(education, India) Abbreviation of All India Institutes of Medical Sciences.


part-whole model

part-whole model (plural part-whole models)

(education) A simple tree-like diagram showing the relationship between a whole and its parts, used in teaching mathematical concepts such as fractions.


numberness

Fluent reading and fluency in numberness are analogous.

2014, Steve Chinn, The Routledge International Handbook of Dyscalculia and Mathematical Learning Difficulties, page 280:

(education) Competence in working with numbers and arithmetic; numeracy.


first school

For six months in 2015, a class of 9-year-olds from a first school in rural Northumberland (29 children) planned and planted a hay meadow in a local garden […]

2017, David Leat, Enquiry and Project Based Learning, page 171:

(UK, education) In the three-tier education system, a school for children until thee age of eight or nine.


platoon grouping

(education, historical) A system of children's education in which one group studied while another group carried out activities.


straight A's

He always gets straight A's; he must study a lot.

(education, chiefly US) Grades or marks that are consistently A's.