I think I know what you meant, the runway/pattern currently being used by you and others at the time. I used the word "active" just because that's a term many people understand and use, but whether it's a "real thing" in regulations seems the question. It may not be the "right" word, but it's commonly used. There have been some heated radio conversations in the past when someone has wanted to do something "opposite" or "not on the active" when flight and operations were already taking place on a particular runway. Hopefully common sense and compromise prevail.

Like I was saying before, this can be the most dangerous type of training, the task saturation and overload for the instructor can be overwhelming and they have to be able to shed teaching as necessary to do the basic things like make sure radio calls happen, configuration changes happen, coordination with other traffic and ATC, etc. Hopefully this guy fixes his issues and doesn't endanger anyone else in the sky!