teaching assistant

American

noun

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

teaching assistant British

noun

another name for classroom assistant

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teaching assistantship noun

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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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Penny has worked as a teaching assistant in a mainstream primary school for over 22 years, supporting children with SEND, mostly on a one-to-one basis.

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Ms Shellis, who was born in Tywyn, was a teaching assistant at Rhyl High School.

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