Glossary
Education Professor Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential education professor terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key education professor vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in education professor training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- CAEP
- Educator preparation accreditation.
- Classroom management
- Keeping classes orderly.
- Differentiation
- Adapting instruction.
- Ed.D.
- Doctor of Education.
- Edtpa
- Teacher performance assessment.
- Equity
- Fairness in education.
- Formative assessment
- Checks during learning.
- Lesson study
- Collaborative lesson improvement.
- Licensure
- Teaching license.
- Literacy
- Reading and writing skills.
- Methods course
- Course on teaching a subject.
- Pedagogy
- Teaching methods.
- Student teaching
- Supervised teaching practice.
- Summative assessment
- Final evaluation.
- Tenure
- Permanent status.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Education Professor practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Education Professor training.
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