A back-to-school vocabulary trip you didn’t know you needed
Ah, September. The pencils are sharpened, the lunchboxes are mispacked, and parents across Sonoma County are trying not to weep tears of joy at the return of structure. While the kids dive into math and reading, we, dear readers, shall plunge into something far juicier: the secret, strange, and slightly ridiculous vocabulary of education.
These are not your run-of-the-mill “syllabus” or “curriculum” words. These are the dusty, half-forgotten linguistic relics that hide in the footnotes of academia — or should be there, if they ever made it to print.
Let’s begin our tour.
Pedagoguery
When teaching gets too theatrical…