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science teacher

science teacher

27 1.6
A person who helps students learn about science in school
  • noun
  • /ˈsaɪəns ˈtiːtʃər/
translation icon : profesor de ciencias
  • Our grade eight science teacher runs tech lab clinics for students to complete their design challenges.
  • math and science teachers
  • school science teacher
  • grade science teacher

It was Dougie Dwyer, my science teacher, who said if you're going to be a basketball player, you got to have converse.

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Examples

Synonyms

teacher
vsscience teacher
1.0

A person who gives lessons to students in a school or college

specialises in one academic subject rather than broad teaching roles
instructor
vsscience teacher
221 2.9

A person who teaches a subject or skill in a class

teaches an academic subject in lower levels rather than technical college training
educator
vsscience teacher
164 3.0

A person who teaches or helps others learn, often at school

is a role limited to teaching a single school subject rather than broad education work
school teacher
vsscience teacher
82 1.0

A person who helps children or teenagers learn at school

focuses on a single subject area rather than general classroom teaching
schoolteacher
vsscience teacher
61 1.0

A person who works at a school and helps children learn

focuses on one subject area rather than covering many subjects

How Experienced

head
2.2
science teacher
27 1.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

science + teacher

The meaning 'a person whose job is to teach science' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'science' (the subject area) with 'teacher' (a person who teaches). This noun+noun compositional pattern is common across languages and uses frequent, literal constituents, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.

Etymology

Science teacher comes from the simple picture of a teacher in a lab coat showing experiments and explaining how nature works. The word science names the subject and teacher the person who teaches, so science teacher means 'a person who teaches science'.