teacher assistant

collocation in English

meaningsofteacherandassistant

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teacher
noun[C]
uk
/ˈtiː.tʃər/us
/ˈtiː.tʃɚ/
someone whose job is to teach in a school ...
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assistant
noun[C]
uk
/əˈsɪs.tənt/us
/əˈsɪs.tənt/
someone who helps someone else to do ...
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(Definition ofteacherandassistantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Serving as an on-campus intern,teacherassistant, and media assistant does not count as a class for eligibility.
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All primary classes have a full-timeteacherassistantto support learning programmes.
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Specialist teacher assistants help qualified teachers to give primary pupils a good grounding in the core national curriculum skills of reading, writing and arithmetic.
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It says that more trained teacher assistants should be employed, and that class sizes should be reduced.
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It is not replacing teacher assistants when they leave.
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Teacher assistants are not available at borough council level.
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We have stated that we shall also be providing more teacher assistants to work in classrooms with them.
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We are recruiting many more teacher assistants, and a jolly good thing too.
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The authority declined to take the matter to the police, so a parent did so and three teachers or teacher assistants have been convicted in the courts.
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States with quality standards built into their licensing programs may have higher requirements for support staff such as teacher assistants.
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There are also six teacher assistants to assist the classroom teachers.
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They are assisted by twelve teacher assistants who also provide supervision outside the classrooms.
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They heard terms like team teaching, teacher assistants, media center, closed-circuit television instruction, and programmed instruction.
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Many teacher assistants work primarily or exclusively with students who have special educational needs.
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Instead of primary caregivers carrying out these interactions it will be the responsibility of the teachers, teacher assistants, or peers.
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