asistente de catedra

English translation: teaching assistant

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Spanish term or phrase:asistente de catedra
English translation:teaching assistant
Entered by: Marian Greenfield

19:49 Oct 12, 2005
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Spanish term or phrase: asistente de catedra
El termino es para un CV, una persona que fue asistente de catedra a nivel universitario. Se dice professor's assistant? no estoy segura, cualquier sugerencia es bien recibida...gracias de antemano
Maria Milagros Del Cid
Panama
Local time: 04:26
teaching assistant
Explanation:
Teaching assistants are enrolled into the course with a combination of development responsibilities. This includes the ability to develop test questions, verify grades, manage users, and many others. The role of a Teaching Assistant is assigned by the course instructor.
www.blackboard.niu.edu/blackboard/glossary.htm

A Teaching Assistant is a registered graduate student in full-time residence, chosen for excellent scholarship and for promise as a teacher, and serving an apprenticeship under the active tutelage and supervision of a regular faculty member.
gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/old/support/tadefinitions.htm
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Marian Greenfield
Local time: 05:26
Grading comment
Gracias Marian !
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4 +6teaching assistant
Marian Greenfield
4Assistant Professor
Lindsey Crawford


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
teaching assistant


Explanation:
Teaching assistants are enrolled into the course with a combination of development responsibilities. This includes the ability to develop test questions, verify grades, manage users, and many others. The role of a Teaching Assistant is assigned by the course instructor.
www.blackboard.niu.edu/blackboard/glossary.htm

A Teaching Assistant is a registered graduate student in full-time residence, chosen for excellent scholarship and for promise as a teacher, and serving an apprenticeship under the active tutelage and supervision of a regular faculty member.
gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/old/support/tadefinitions.htm

Marian Greenfield
Local time: 05:26
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 24
Grading comment
Gracias Marian !

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Joanna Drzewieniecki
5 mins
  -> thanks.

agree  Refugio: Supports instructional activities within department. Responsibilities can include grading problems & quizzes; assisting professors to conduct large lecture & television classes or laboratory courses; or teaching refresher/ lower-level undergrad classes.
11 mins
  -> yes, thanks exactly... thanks again... I ought to know... I put in my two years as a teaching assistant (teaching my own classes) at Indiana U when working on my Masters...

agree  Fabiana Yampolsky: what about: chair teaching assistant?
1 hr
  -> thanks... I've never seen that here in the U.S.

agree  Muriel Vasconcellos
2 hrs
  -> thanks Muriel

agree  Graciela Guzman
11 hrs
  -> thanks

agree  Hattie Hill: You call also say "graduate assistant" at some universities in the States. It really depends. Some schools call them "TAs" and others "GAs"
12 hrs
  -> absolutely.... thanks
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Assistant Professor


Explanation:
That's the commonly used term

Lindsey Crawford
Local time: 05:26
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Marian Greenfield: this is a commonly used term, but it does not mean an assitant... it's one of the levels before reaching full professor, above associate professor... for ex., I'm an Adjunct Assistant Professor at NYU...
24 mins

neutral  Muriel Vasconcellos: I agree with Marian.
2 hrs
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