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. See classroom assistant
   another name for classroom assistant

Other Words From

• teaching assistantship noun

Example Sentences

Nor does it acknowledge how the power of student teaching evaluations over instructors’ job prospects can make teaching assistants hesitant to report sexually inappropriate behavior.

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In this situation, the teaching assistant has power over the students but not vice versa.

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Yet teaching assistants rarely labeled behavior by students “sexual harassment,” no matter how galling it was.

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Yet we found that these teaching assistants remain largely silent.

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