teaching assistant

Frequency: 7.413.1 per million words

An assistant who helps a teacher in a classroom, often in a university or school.

assistantADJECTIVE + assistant

Categories:

teaching

Examples (10)

  • He works as a teaching assistant at the local primary school.
  • In my first year of grad school, I was a teaching assistant for an introductory biology course.
  • The teaching assistant is responsible for grading homework and leading discussion sections.
  • The department is looking to hire a new teaching assistant for the spring semester.
  • Did you get any help from the teaching assistant with that difficult assignment?
  • Being a teaching assistant gave her valuable experience for her future career as a professor.
  • While the professor delivers the main lectures, the teaching assistant provides more direct support to students.
  • The professor has three teaching assistants to help manage the large class size.
  • I'm going to my teaching assistant's office hours to ask some questions.
  • If you become a teaching assistant, you might get a tuition waiver.