T Level
A two-year technical qualification at 18, equivalent to three A Levels, with a substantial industry placement.
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27 terms filed under T, showing 1–10 (page 1 of 3).
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Talking to school about a worry
How to raise something early, before it becomes a complaint.
Teaching assistant
Also called TA, LSA, Learning support assistant, HLTA
Support staff working alongside teachers. Not a substitute for teaching, and often deployed as one.
Team around the family
Also called TAF, TAC, Team around the child
A meeting of everyone working with a family, with the family in the room. Co-ordination rather than assessment.
Tectonic hazards
Earthquakes and volcanoes: why they happen where they do, and why the effects differ so much.
Tenses in a modern language
Past, present and future. Using three tenses accurately is the single biggest lift in a language grade.
Term dates and holidays
Who decides when school is open, and why leave in term time is refused.
Testing and debugging
Checking a program works, and finding out why it does not.
The carbon cycle
How carbon moves between the atmosphere, oceans, rocks and living things.
The Earth's atmosphere and resources
How the atmosphere formed, what pollutes it, and how we use up finite resources.
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