teaching fellow

American  

noun

1. a holder of a teaching fellowship.

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teaching fellow British  

noun

1. a postgraduate student who is given tuition, accommodation, expenses, etc, in return for some teaching duties

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Other Word Forms

• teaching fellowship
  noun

Example Sentences

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teaching fellow

Min Zin studied for a master’s degree in journalism at Berkeley and later became a teaching fellow there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Claire Wilkes, a teaching fellow in audiology at Aston University, spoke to the BBC about the damage defective equipment can have on hearing when someone is exposed to high levels of noise.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025

Back in the 1980s, as a graduate student at Harvard, I served as a teaching fellow in a course on Weimar and Nazi culture, taught by Richard M. Hunt.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024

And he certainly didn’t expect to be studying — or teaching fellow students — about community organizing.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2024

Vickers was the teaching fellow in the chemistry department whom Professor Maddox had planned to assign to help the boys when they first suggested atmospheric analysis.

From The Year When Stardust Fell by Raymond F. Jones