Teaching Wiki
Plain-language explanations of education terms, curriculum concepts, and teaching strategies - written for US teachers and parents.
What is the Teaching Wiki?
335 plain-language definitions of the terms that turn up in elementary classrooms, report cards, curriculum guides, and parent-teacher meetings. Phonics terms like digraph and blend, math terms like regrouping and place value, and teaching terms like formative assessment and guided reading.
Each entry answers the same three questions: what the term actually means, which grades it applies to, and what it looks like in practice with a real example. Where a term maps to a skill children practise, the entry links straight to matching printable worksheets.
It is written for people who need a straight answer quickly. No jargon defined using more jargon, and no assumption that you trained as a teacher. Browse alphabetically using the letter index, search by term, or filter by subject.