Today's classrooms have gone through major changes. You might not recognize them if you haven't been in one for decades. And teachers must also adjust which includes learning new technology. Here are some of the new educational words.
Acadormant - Students who have stopped making any academic progress.
Assessmental - The idea that high standards for education are possible when assessment testing takes precedence over real learning in the classroom.
Bookstache - The facial hair added by students to every portrait in the American history textbook.
Colate - Two students who arrive tardy to class at the same time.
Corroborative learning - When all the students in a class agree to stick to the same excuse for why their work is not done.
Coverage-based instruction - Instruction based on the idea that what is taught is much more important than what is learned.
Digital disorganizers - Fascinating electronic organizers that distract students from paying attention to assignments, instructions, and due dates.
Dispedefflent - The aroma that fills the air when students remove their shoes during class.
E-fail - Electronically sent failure notices.
Erasivot - The divot that you get in your paper if you erase too hard.
Fontics - Literacy training through the use of wacky computer type fonts.
Handoubt - To wonder if the students even looked at the important papers you just passed them.
Hydropendant - Student who requests permission to get a drink of water every ten minutes.
Hyper-critical thinking - Higher level thinking evidenced by such questions as, "What kind of a haircut is that?!" And, "Why do we have to do this stupid assignment?!"
Interconversations - The office conversations you overhear when someone forgets to turn off the intercom after an announcement.
Letter of recondemnation - A letter of reference from the wrong person.
Magnetic schools - Special schools in which students are either attracted to or repelled by the other students.
McDone - Students unable to participate in the afternoon's learning activities because they consumed large amounts of fast food for lunch.
Meview - A class review of material in which the only one really reviewing is the teacher.
Multiple unintelligences - A variety of ways of not knowing something. Includes, but is not limited to: resistive unintelligence, disinterested unintelligence, distracted unintelligence, unconscious unintelligence, and absent unintelligence.
Pager-turner - A reading so enthralling that the students turn off their pagers so they can finish it uninterrupted.
Plausea - The nauseous feeling a teacher gets while trying to figure out if a student's excuse is believable or not.
Powerpointless - A wonderfully executed, high tech presentation completely devoid of meaningful content.
Repedementia - Repeatedly telling the same joke to the same class because you can't remember which of your classes you've told it to.
Seatables - The little pieces of school lunch that hide on the seats of school lunchroom chairs waiting to adhere to the next unsuspecting sitter.
Shmudgle - The rainbow of color on the heel of your hand from using it as an eraser on the marker board and on overhead transparencies.
Signotsure - The signature that comes back on a mid term report that looks more like the student's than the parent's.
Strobed - Feeling you have after spending all day in a classroom with florescent lights that do that flicker thing.
Substandardization - Standardizing a system of education down to the lowest common denominator.
Teacherscreen - The student who stands in front of you to purposefully block your view of the rest of the class as he asks you a question.
Telesubbies - Substitute teachers who only show videos.
Torigami - Assignment papers folded and unfolded so many times that they are turned in as sixteen separate pieces.
Vistamized - A student so fascinated with the view from the classroom window that he has completely lost touch with what's going on inside the classroom.
Assessmental - The idea that high standards for education are possible when assessment testing takes precedence over real learning in the classroom.
Bookstache - The facial hair added by students to every portrait in the American history textbook.
Colate - Two students who arrive tardy to class at the same time.
Corroborative learning - When all the students in a class agree to stick to the same excuse for why their work is not done.
Coverage-based instruction - Instruction based on the idea that what is taught is much more important than what is learned.
Digital disorganizers - Fascinating electronic organizers that distract students from paying attention to assignments, instructions, and due dates.
Dispedefflent - The aroma that fills the air when students remove their shoes during class.
E-fail - Electronically sent failure notices.
Erasivot - The divot that you get in your paper if you erase too hard.
Fontics - Literacy training through the use of wacky computer type fonts.
Handoubt - To wonder if the students even looked at the important papers you just passed them.
Hydropendant - Student who requests permission to get a drink of water every ten minutes.
Hyper-critical thinking - Higher level thinking evidenced by such questions as, "What kind of a haircut is that?!" And, "Why do we have to do this stupid assignment?!"
Interconversations - The office conversations you overhear when someone forgets to turn off the intercom after an announcement.
Letter of recondemnation - A letter of reference from the wrong person.
Magnetic schools - Special schools in which students are either attracted to or repelled by the other students.
McDone - Students unable to participate in the afternoon's learning activities because they consumed large amounts of fast food for lunch.
Meview - A class review of material in which the only one really reviewing is the teacher.
Multiple unintelligences - A variety of ways of not knowing something. Includes, but is not limited to: resistive unintelligence, disinterested unintelligence, distracted unintelligence, unconscious unintelligence, and absent unintelligence.
Pager-turner - A reading so enthralling that the students turn off their pagers so they can finish it uninterrupted.
Plausea - The nauseous feeling a teacher gets while trying to figure out if a student's excuse is believable or not.
Powerpointless - A wonderfully executed, high tech presentation completely devoid of meaningful content.
Repedementia - Repeatedly telling the same joke to the same class because you can't remember which of your classes you've told it to.
Seatables - The little pieces of school lunch that hide on the seats of school lunchroom chairs waiting to adhere to the next unsuspecting sitter.
Shmudgle - The rainbow of color on the heel of your hand from using it as an eraser on the marker board and on overhead transparencies.
Signotsure - The signature that comes back on a mid term report that looks more like the student's than the parent's.
Strobed - Feeling you have after spending all day in a classroom with florescent lights that do that flicker thing.
Substandardization - Standardizing a system of education down to the lowest common denominator.
Teacherscreen - The student who stands in front of you to purposefully block your view of the rest of the class as he asks you a question.
Telesubbies - Substitute teachers who only show videos.
Torigami - Assignment papers folded and unfolded so many times that they are turned in as sixteen separate pieces.
Vistamized - A student so fascinated with the view from the classroom window that he has completely lost touch with what's going on inside the classroom.
Wired classroom - Any classroom in which the teacher has had more than five cups of coffee and each student has had more than two cans of Mountain Dew.
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