Glossary

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CEART

Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the 1966 Recommendations concerning the Status of Teachers and the 1997 Recommendation Concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel, charged with monitoring and promoting the implementation of the recommendations.



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.



Cluster

See School cluster



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.



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.



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.



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.