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

Steve Brice, a teaching assistant at St Werburgh's Primary School in Bristol, was among them.

From BBC

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From BBC

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

From Los Angeles Times