teaching assistant

American  

noun

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

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teaching assistant British  

noun

1. another name for classroom assistant

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Other Word Forms

• teaching assistantship noun

Example Sentences

The former teaching assistant and her husband found themselves out of work because of ill health and were on benefits.

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Kimberly credits nursery manager Katie Unsworth and teaching assistant Shelley Marston with helping her him to overcome the challenges he faced.

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I learned that Carr, then 25, had worked as a teaching assistant in Holly and Jessica's class at Soham junior school and knew them well.

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Carr said she was a teaching assistant in the girls' class and the children were taught about "stranger danger".

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Penny Hesselgrove, who has worked as a teaching assistant in a mainstream primary school for over 22 years, says staff are currently "stretched beyond capacity".

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