Glossary: International Teaching Terms

Your school should have a comprehensive e-safety policy which outlines how you will keep all members of your school’s community safe when using online websites and resources and todays technology.  Simply blocking and filtering internet access will not keep you safe.  Knowing what to do when encountering something offensive or dangerous will keep you safe.  There are plenty of resources available that can be used in school or you can put together your own scheme of work and resources that meet the government's guidelines.  Here are some useful links that you can investigate further:

• UK Government Principles of E-Safety - http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/pupilsupport/pastoralcare/b00198456/principles-of-e-safety

• Think You Know (CEOP) - http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/

• Childnet - http://www.childnet.com/

• UK Internet Safer Internet Centre - http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/

• BBC Stay Safe - http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/topics/stay-safe

• Kidsmart - http://www.kidsmart.org.uk/

• Child Line cyberbullying - http://www.childline.org.uk/Explore/Bullying/Pages/CyberBullying.aspx

Digizen - http://www.digizen.org/

Learning done by internet.

E.L.E.C.T. stands for Early Learning for Every Child Today. This is an Ontario Ministry document that outlines a framework standard to guide educators in early learning and childcare programs.

Encuesta de Población Activa, realizada por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística, en el que se recogen entre otros datos, el número de desempleados, división por tramos de edad, sexo, o sector económico al que pertenecen.

Established in January 1987, the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) is Europe’s institutional network for open and flexible higher education. At present its membership comprises the open and distance teaching universities, national consortia which connect conventional universities and associate members from non-European countries. Its membership covers over 200 universities and  around three million students across Europe.

The objectives of EADTU address:

• the advancement of open and flexible education in  Europe in a lifelong learning perspective;
• the institutional development of the members;
• research and innovation of open and flexible education.

All this supported by new educational concepts, technologies and  environments within international cooperation in Europe and worldwide.

The EADTU strategies fit into the European Area of Higher Education (Bologna Declaration) and the Lisbon Strategy of the EU, the national and European policies with regard to lifelong learning, and into institutional strategies for the lifelong development of high quality competencies for European citizen

English as an Additional Language or Dialect

EAP stands for an Education Abroad Program.  Popular among college students.

An 8-bit character encoding used mainly on IBM mainframe and IBM midrange computer operating systems.

Evidence Based Training: Promote learning through discovery and collaboration.

Activities include making posters, market stalls and snowballing.

European Computer Driving Licence is a computer certification programme provided by ECDL Foundation. According to ECDL Foundation, the ECDL certification is recognized and supported by national governments, computer societies, international organizations and private corporations. The ECDL is known outside Europe as the International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL) and recognised as equivalent in these countries.