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Teacher education

Teacher education is the formal preparation of people to teach, spanning preservice and continuing development; it evolved from normal schools into university-based programs that vary widely by jurisdiction.

Teacher Eligibility Test

The Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) is India's mandatory licensing examination for teachers of classes I to VIII, introduced under the RTE Act 2009 and first held in 2011.

Teacher in role

Teacher in role, a drama education strategy created by Dorothy Heathcote in 1973 and developed with Gavin Bolton, has the teacher adopt a fictional role inside process drama or Mantle of the Expert to guide learning from within the fiction.

Teacher in Space Project

The Teacher in Space Project, announced by Reagan in 1984, was a NASA program to fly a schoolteacher aboard the Shuttle; Christa McAuliffe died on Challenger in 1986.

Teacher's Pet (1958 film)

Teacher's Pet (1958) is a Paramount romantic comedy directed by George Seaton, starring Clark Gable as editor James Gannon and Doris Day as journalism professor Erica Stone; Oscar-nominated screenplay and Gig Young supporting role.

Teacher's Pet (2025 film)

Teacher's Pet (2025) is Noam Kroll's American psychological thriller, also known by its 2026 VOD release, starring Michelle Torian and Luke Barnett as a student and predatory teacher; distinct from the 2025 Vivamax and Indian films of the same name.

Teachers College, Columbia University

Teachers College, Columbia University: graduate school of education, psychology, and health in New York City; founded 1887 from Grace Dodge's kitchen garden school, affiliated with Columbia, first US PhD in Education (1893), Carnegie R2.

Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America

Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, known as TIAA, is a New York life insurance company founded in 1918 by the Carnegie Foundation, serving education and nonprofit workers.

Teaching assistant

Teaching assistant (TA; also learning support assistant, paraprofessional, paraeducator): a school support employee who helps teachers deliver individual and small-group instruction, with Level 3 UK standards, US median pay of $36,780, and about four months' average attainment impact.

Teaching Hospitals

Teaching hospitals, also called academic medical centers or university hospitals, combine patient care with accredited training of medical students, residents, and fellows plus research; over 1,000 exist in the US, employing 2.7 million people.

Teaching method

Teaching method: organized ways of delivering instruction, including direct instruction, inquiry-based learning, active learning, guided play, and differentiated teaching, with meta-analytic effectiveness evidence.

Teaching Mrs. Tingle

Teaching Mrs. Tingle, originally titled Killing Mrs. Tingle, is a 1999 American comedy-thriller and Kevin Williamson's directorial debut, starring Helen Mirren and Katie Holmes. Three students kidnap their history teacher; it grossed about $9 million and was retitled after Columbine.

Teaching of international relations

Teaching of international relations (IR) covers how universities organize, deliver, and quality-assure education in world politics, spanning curricula, textbooks, theoretical debates, and degree frameworks, with curricula set department by department.

Teaching of Welsh history

Teaching of Welsh history in Welsh schools: mandatory in the Curriculum for Wales since 2022 via the Humanities Area; shaped by the 2013 Elin Jones review, 2019 Senedd inquiry, Estyn findings, the Welsh History Timeline, and the new GCSE History from 2026.

Teaching Practice: Idiot Girls and School Ghost 2

Teaching Practice: Idiot Girls and School Ghost 2 (교생실습) is a 2025 South Korean satirical comedy horror film by Kim Min-ha, a standalone sequel to School Anniversary, starring Han Seon-hwa as a student teacher confronting a black magic club that tops national mock exams via a spirit world; premiered at BIFAN 2025, released May 13, 2026.

Teaching quantum mechanics

Teaching quantum mechanics is the practice, and field of study, concerned with how students learn quantum mechanics, documenting persistent difficulties such as classical thinking, wave-particle duality, and superposition.

Teaching–learning-based optimization

Teaching–learning-based optimization (TLBO) is a population-based metaheuristic that mimics classroom teaching and peer learning, proposed by R. V. Rao and colleagues in 2011 and used mainly for engineering design.

Teachings and philosophy of Swami Vivekananda

Teachings and philosophy of Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902), Ramakrishna's disciple: Practical Vedanta, divinity of the soul, oneness as the ethical test, the four yogas, and the 1897 Ramakrishna Mission.

Teachmint

Teachmint Technologies Pvt Ltd is a Bengaluru-based Indian edtech company founded in 2020 by Mihir Gupta and three co-founders, known for its live-class software and TeachmintX smart-classroom hardware.

Teachta Dála

Teachta Dála (TD, plural Teachtaí Dála) is the Irish title for a member of Dáil Éireann, Ireland's lower house, meaning "Deputy to the Dáil"; TDs are elected by PR-STV in 3-5 seat constituencies, 173 serving in the 34th Dáil since 2024.

Teacup (TV series)

Teacup is a 2024 Peacock horror-thriller series created by Ian McCulloch and executive produced by James Wan, adapted from Robert McCammon's 1988 novel Stinger; eight episodes, starring Yvonne Strahovski, cancelled January 2025.

TEAD1

TEAD1, also known as TEF-1, is a human transcription factor that partners with YAP and TAZ in the Hippo pathway; mutations cause Sveinsson's chorioretinal atrophy.

TEAD4

TEAD4 (TEA domain transcription factor 4, TEF-3), human gene at 12p13.33 encoding a Hippo pathway transcription factor for YAP1/TAZ; required for trophectoderm specification and a pan-cancer prognostic biomarker, unlike TEAD1-3.

Teads

Teads is an omnichannel digital advertising platform, created in 2011, best known for the inRead outstream video format that plays video ads inside editorial articles rather than before video content.

Teahouse

Teahouse (茶馆, chaguan; 茶室, chashitsu): an establishment where tea and refreshments are served, central to East Asian social life. Chinese teahouses date to the Song Dynasty as information and leisure hubs; Japanese chashitsu host the tea ceremony; British tearooms emerged from 1894.

Teahupoo Reef

Teahupoo Reef (Teahupo'o), off Tahiti Iti, French Polynesia, is the shallow coral reef producing the legendary left-hand "wall of skulls" surf break, with depth dropping from 45 m to centimeters; venue of the Billabong Pro Tahiti and Paris 2024 Olympic surfing.

Teak

Teak (Tectona grandis), also called sagwan, djati or kyun, is a valuable deciduous tropical hardwood tree native to India, Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, famous for durable, weather- and termite-resistant timber used in shipbuilding, furniture and decking, and grown in about 2.25 million ha of plantations.

Teal

Teal is a blue-green tertiary color of equal parts blue and green, named for the stripe on the teal duck's head and used in design since the 1700s.

Teal Swan

Teal Swan, born Mary Teal Bosworth in Utah, is an American spiritual teacher, author, and YouTuber known for her trademarked trauma-healing method, the Completion Process.

Tealium Inc.

Tealium Inc. is a privately held San Diego software company founded in 2008 that sells a customer data platform unifying customer data across web, mobile, and offline channels.