teaching fellow
- noun
- /ˈtiːtʃɪŋ ˈfɛloʊ/
- US
- As a teaching fellow, I assist the professor in leading discussion sections and grading assignments.
I'm a teaching fellow at the museum and heritage studies program at Victoria University of Wellington.
- I'm a teaching fellow at the museum and heritage studies program at Victoria University of Wellington.
- We have two teaching fellows, Lauren Mancia sitting at this end and Anjeshka Reitz standing in that corner.
Examples
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Using examples from her own teaching, Merryl Goldberg, a teaching fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, explores some techniques that teachers can use.
Academic text (1992) -
And again, you will be able to talk to me and your teaching fellows about the paper topic.
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And this one I will give you, not one that I myself have made, but a former teaching fellow of the course.
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And many of these, almost all of these teaching fellows have taken this course last year.
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So I was just talking to some of the teaching fellows about how the sections went.
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I'm a teaching fellow at the museum and heritage studies program at Victoria University of Wellington.
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He is currently a teaching fellow and PhD candidate in English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Fiction book (1999) -
One of these teaching fellows, Suzanne Camilli, has stayed with us as a head teaching fellow.
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Bonhoeffer came to Union as a post-doctoral student and teaching fellow for the 1930-31 academic year.
Academic text (2000) -
While working at MIT, he served as a teaching fellow in Harvard University's Afro-American Studies.
Blog text (13)
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'teaching' + 'fellow' make it clear the phrase refers to a person involved in teaching who holds some academic status, so a learner can infer a teacher-like role. However, 'fellow' is polysemous (could imply a senior academic, a society member, or a funded researcher), so the precise institutional meaning 'graduate student with teaching duties' is not fully predictable from the parts alone.
Etymology
Teaching fellow comes from older university life, where a fellow was a college member who lived and worked with professors and often helped run classes. So the name shows someone who both teaches and is a fellow, which is why today it means a 'graduate student' who teaches or helps lead classes.