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

He played in an informal basketball league, went to classes, did his coursework and worked as a teaching assistant without drawing too much attention to himself, according to students who knew him.

From The Wall Street Journal

Armoa, even with his three salaries and income from his wife, a teaching assistant, often struggles to get by.

From Reuters

At Harvard, he studied astronomy and education, serving as a teaching assistant to Carl Sagan and earning a master’s degree in 1967 and a doctorate in 1969.

From Washington Post

He studied architecture, briefly worked as a construction worker and landed a job with Zaha Hadid in 1995, eventually becoming her teaching assistant at the Yale School of Architecture.

From New York Times

He also had been investigated for his conduct around female students while working as a teaching assistant at Washington State University, including one complaint of following a woman to her car.

From Washington Times