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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The title is meant to be a play on words that parents should understand.  Even before I became a teacher, I knew what a cloze activity was.  Now there is Google so.....[/quote]

Good for you, but I certainly didn't know what a cloze activity was.  My spell checker doesn't know the word either because it keeps highlighting cloze as misspelled.

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My spell checker also doesn't recognize Latin and Greek medical terms. Guess my doctors are incompetent and careless.[/quote]

I take my child to a doctor instead of googling for expertise, they don't just know definitions but how to apply them. If they are professional they can also explain without the jargon and teach the necessary latin terms to me and my child.  If not they just throw around terms without regard for technical training or age of the patient.

Make the appropriate analogy to teaching.  First graders can benefit from a cloze activity without knowing that is what they are doing or learning the educational theory first.  A professional teacher has a deeper understanding of what is going on, recognizes a close activity in context and can explain the technique with or without jargon to students or parents as needed.

The issue with the worksheet seems settled--a cute pun that made sense when it was a page in a workbook, but jargon-y out of context.  No big deal, OP is satisfied, the title isn't wrong.  But you insist on saying the professionalism of teachers has been attacked.  Yet, as you belabor the point, I wonder if you understand professionalism.
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