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  2. Profession - Wikipedia

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    A 19th century etching of a farmer consulting with his doctor, vicar and lawyer. A profession is a field of work that has been successfully professionalized. [1] It can be defined as a disciplined group of individuals, professionals, who adhere to ethical standards and who hold themselves out as, and are accepted by the public as possessing special knowledge and skills in a widely recognised ...

  3. Emergent curriculum - Wikipedia

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    For emergent curriculum, classrooms are often organized into core curriculum areas, where activities may have a curricular theme while following student interest (Crowther, 2005). For example, while students are demonstrating an interest in restaurants, the literacy area may allow opportunity to write customer orders while the math area may ...

  4. National Council of Teachers of English - Wikipedia

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    The committee on global citizenship's charge is "to promote interest and knowledge of global connections and issues across the Council, including convention sessions, publications, social media, and Council projects; To promote discussions of the learning needs of students in schools and colleges who come from global contexts and of ...

  5. Higher Education Act of 1965 - Wikipedia

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    The law was intended "to strengthen the educational resources of our colleges and universities and to provide financial assistance for students in postsecondary and higher education". It increased federal money given to universities, created scholarships, gave low-interest loans for students, and established a National Teachers Corps.

  6. Community of interest - Wikipedia

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    Participation in a community of interest can be compelling, entertaining and create a community where people return frequently and remain for extended periods. Frequently, they cannot be easily defined by a particular geographical area. In other words, "a community of interest is a gathering of people assembled around a topic of common interest.

  7. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

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    The teacher is seen more as a facilitator or helper than the dominant figure in the classroom. Structure See “language content”. Student-generated material Teaching material to which the students have made a major contribution; the language experience approach, for example, uses student-generated material. Survey

  8. Academic freedom - Wikipedia

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    Academic freedom is the right of a teacher to instruct and the right of a student to learn in an academic setting unhampered by outside interference. [1] It may also include the right of academics to engage in social and political criticism.

  9. Statistical parameter - Wikipedia

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    Suppose that we have an indexed family of distributions. If the index is also a parameter of the members of the family, then the family is a parameterized family.Among parameterized families of distributions are the normal distributions, the Poisson distributions, the binomial distributions, and the exponential family of distributions.