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Spanish: 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
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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 Garrido
Panama
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
United States
Note from asker to answerer
Gracias Marian !
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Summary of answers provided
4 +6teaching assistant
Marian Greenfield
4Assistant Professor
Mariela Díaz-Butler


  


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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
United States
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 24
Note from asker to answerer
Gracias Marian !

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

agree Ruth Henderson: 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 FabianaY: 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

Mariela Díaz-Butler
United States
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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