teaching assistant

noun

1. a graduate student in a college or university who is the recipient of a teaching fellowship. TA

teaching assistant

noun

1. another name for classroom assistant

Other Word Forms

• teaching assistantship noun

Example Sentences

The word “try” is banned—if a student says it, Lee lets out a squeal so loud that the teaching assistant on the other side of the wall can hear it.

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The inquest heard that Maria Morris, who worked as a teaching assistant, had bi-polar affective disorder.

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Now he is trying to find a teaching assistant job to make up for losses.

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Ms Young, a teaching assistant, struggled for years with mental health issues and was under stress from marriage breakdown and relocation, according to a coroner's Prevention of Future Deaths Report.

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Last year a former teaching assistant from Sussex who quit the profession described her experiences.

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