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teaching assistant
teacher's classroom helper
A teaching assistant helps a teacher or lecturer with lessons and students.
This vs that
The teaching assistant helped individual pupils.
The lecturer taught the whole group.
Hear it in real life
Who helped you set up the experiment?
The teaching assistant did. She also checked our safety equipment.
The teaching assistant worked with two pupils who needed extra support.
Which sounds natural?
Psst — which one would you actually say?
'Teaching assistant' is the standard job title; the longer version sounds bureaucratic.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: She works like a teaching assistant at a primary school.
Say: She works as a teaching assistant at a primary school.
Use 'work as' for someone's job or role.
Say it together
Whole chunks natives use with it.
work as a teaching assistant
I worked as a teaching assistant during my gap year.
She wants to work as a teaching assistant before training as a teacher.
Phrases to borrow
More for talking about school people.
have a word with ___
I'll have a word with the teacher tomorrow.
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Your turn: say it out loud
The teaching assistant helped the pupils.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
teaching assistant
teacher's classroom helper
“The teaching assistant worked with two pupils who needed extra support.”
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