The term "teaching accident" as mentioned in these Measures refers to the acts or events that affect the normal teaching order, teaching process and teaching quality and cause adverse consequences and influences due to the responsibilities of teachers, teaching administrators, teaching assistants, teaching service personnel and management departments at all levels.

According to the circumstances and consequences of accidents, teaching accidents can be divided into three types: general teaching accidents, serious teaching accidents and major teaching accidents. Acts or events that cause adverse consequences due to the responsible person belong to general teaching accidents; Acts or events that cause serious consequences due to the responsible person are serious teaching accidents; Acts or events that cause adverse effects due to the responsible person belong to major teaching accidents.