Glossary
You can use the course glossary to help with any unfamiliar terminology.
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Certification (teacher certification or licensing)
The process of earning qualifications or credentials and the recognition by the relevant education authority of such achievements that allows a teacher to teach in certain subject areas at a specific educational level.
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Cluster
See School cluster
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Collective agreement
A written agreement regarding working conditions and terms of employment concluded between one or more employers or employers’ organizations, on the one hand, and one or more representative organizations of teachers or other education workers or their duly elected representatives, on the other.
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Collective bargaining
All negotiations which take place between one or more employers or employers’organizations, on the one hand, and one or more organizations of teachers or other education workers or their duly elected representatives, on the other, for determining working conditions and terms of employment or for regulating relations between employers and teachers or other education workers.
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Contract teachers (also known as “para” or paraprofes- sional, auxiliary, contractual or community teachers)
Teachers recruited on a temporary, contractual basis, often as a response to difficulties in recruiting sufficient numbers of qualified teachers, or to meet budgetary restraints. They are almost always less well-trained and paid, and have less job security, than permanent or civil service teachers.
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CPD: Continuing/continual professional development
The ongoing professional learning process, by which teachers reflect upon, maintain and develop their professional knowledge, skills and practices. CPD is both a right and an obligation of all professions, including teaching, and may include formal, structured and informal, self-directed learning.
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