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art teacher

art teacher

14 1.1
A person who helps students learn art like painting, drawing, or sculpture
  • noun
  • /ɑrt ˈtiːtʃər/
translation icon : profesor de arte
  • Ms. Johnson is an art teacher who inspires her students to explore their creativity through painting.
  • language arts teacher
  • school art teacher
  • secondary art teacher

I wanted to capture that electric moment when a great art teacher and eager students connect.

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Examples

  • Has everyone met our new art teacher, Sheba Hart?

  • My, my father is a visual artist and he made his living as an art teacher primarily.

  • And then my mom was the art teacher or art director at a summer camp.

  • Yeah, she was talking about an opening... for an art teacher at your school, next term.

  • I wanted to capture that electric moment when a great art teacher and eager students connect.

  • Did you tell Tyler what your art teacher said about your portrait?

  • I'm an art teacher at the Haluki-liki Junior High.

  • That's what I was going to do before I met Frankie: be an art teacher.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • I'm the art teacher.

  • National Board Certification will provide recognition to nationally certified art teachers individually and to art education collectively.

    Academic text (1996)

How Senior

art teacher
14 1.1

Surface Forms

art teacher singular
art teachers plural

Morphology

art + teacher

The meaning 'a teacher who instructs students in visual arts' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'art' (visual artistic practice) with 'teacher' (someone who teaches); it follows a regular noun–noun compound pattern. This compositional structure is cross-linguistically common and contains no idiomatic or metaphorical shift, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand the MWE.

Etymology

Art teacher combines art and teacher. Think of a person with a paintbrush showing students how to draw, paint, or make small sculptures. So art teacher means 'a teacher who teaches visual arts'.