Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act, practice, occupation, or profession of a teacher.
- n. Something taught.
- n. A precept or doctrine. Often used in the plural: the teachings of Buddha.
- adj. Of, involving, or used for teaching: teaching materials; teaching methods.
- adj. Working as a teacher or in teaching: teaching assistants.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or business of instructing.
- n. That which is taught; instruction.
- n. Synonyms Training, Education, etc. See instruction.
Wiktionary
- n. Something taught by a religious or philosophical authority.
- n. The profession of teaching.
- v. present participle of teach.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or business of instructing; also, that which is taught; instruction.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the profession of a teacher
- n. the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
- n. a doctrine that is taught
Examples
“Diary Entry by Alan MacDonald (about the author) yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Let\'s use the Health Care bill as an Obama "teaching moment"'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Let\'s use the Health Care bill as an Obama \'teaching moment\' --- not him \'teaching us\ 'but us \'teaching him\'! ”
OpEdNews - Diary: Let's use the Health Care bill as an Obama "teaching moment"
“Such omissions may have been plausible in the first blush of enthusiasm for reform, but they seem indefensible after many decades of evidence that adventurous teaching is rare. quoted from 《teaching practice: plus que ca change》, p38”
“The greatest advancement in teaching is to have players see their swings.”
“So much of what we think of as “waste” in teaching is actually a diamond in the rough.”
“The schools performance in teaching is judged by how its graduates perform in their next academic stage (university, college, etc.) compared to other schools.”
“Dolphins off the western coast of Australia have been known to teach their young to use sponges to help them gather food, so this kind of dolphin-to-dolphin teaching is not undocumented.”
“In fact, his teaching is a rejection of experience, of his and of ours alike.”
“Informed by the imperatives of human dignity and solidarity, the spirit of this teaching is avidly communitarian and runs against the grain of the unchecked individualism championed by right-wing groups such as the Tea Party.”
The Huffington Post: Donald P. Kommers: Catholic Social Thought and the 2010 Election
“As a professor, one of the ways I measure the success of my teaching is the “news article frequency”: the frequency with which my students send me links to news stories that relate to something we talked about in class.”
2010 January 25 « This is what a computer scientist looks like
“This is what we call a teaching moment," says Richard Roth, who teaches both graduate and undergraduate journalism students at Northwestern University's Medill School.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘teaching’.
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PHIL - vocabulary of thinking
philosophy, Socratic, dialogue, philosopher, Athenian, philosophical, politic, Greek, method, death, ancient, believe and 243 more...
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Words related to knowledge
Words that relate to learning, knowing, being enlightened...
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AFCO - fundamental rights
as enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
academic freedom, access, asylum, bargaining, citizen, cloning, cohesion, collective agreement, collective bargai..., confidentiality, conflict of interest, constraint and 357 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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Things Eilonwy Loves
coaching, art, teaching, friends, libraries, books, reading, computers, stage management, history, writing, learning and 7 more...
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Get Schooled
education, school, student, pupil, college, university, classroom, teaching, public school, private school, parochial school, catholic school and 52 more...
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