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In every profession there are terms, phrases, and abbreviations that are common knowledge only to insiders. For the rest of us, the lingo can be very confusing. This glossary is intended to offer simple explanations of what are sometimes complex issues in education. It is far from complete, but may help you better understand important trends and topics. Bear in mind that the meaning of many of these terms may vary, even from school district to school district.

Click on a term to see what it means.

• Alternative Assessment
• Anecdotal Reports
• Assessment
• At Risk
• Attention Deficit Disorder
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Auditory Discrimination
• Auditory Processing
• Authentic Assessment

• Balanced Reading
• Basal 
• Bilingual Education

• Cluster Teaching
• Cognitive
• Collaborative Education
• Cooperative Learning
• Core Knowledge
• Criterion-Referenced Test 
• Curriculum

• Decodable Text
• Decoding Skills 
• Direct Instruction
• Dyslexia

• Enrichment
• ESOL

• Fine Motor Skills

• Gifted
• Grade Level
• Gross Motor Skills

• Hands-on Activities 
• High Stakes Tests

• IEP (Individual Education Plan) 
• IQ (Intelligence Quotient)
• Inclusion 
• Inference

• Learning Styles
• LEP

• Mainstreaming
• Manipulatives

• Norm-Referenced Tests

• Open-ended Activities

• Pedagogy
• Phonics 
• Portfolio Assessment 
• Professional Development 
• Progress Reports

• Remediation
• Resource Room
• Rubric

• Scope and Sequence
• Sequencing
• Sight Words
• Special Education 
• Special Needs
• Standardized Tests 
• Standards

• Visual Discrimination 
• Visual Processing

• Whole Language
• Writing Process