student teaching

noun

Examples of student teaching in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web There are many university students, such as graduate student teaching assistants and college students, who have on-campus jobs and who are union members. Chris Isidore, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024 Interns worked with their mentors on research projects, observed graduate classes, shadowed graduate student teaching and research assistants, participated in disciplinary activities and explored their futures. Richard Cherwitz, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024 At Hunter, where lots of my classmates hold down jobs in addition to pursuing graduate studies, unpaid student teaching is a major source of financial stress. Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023 Juggling class, tuition and student teaching while also meeting personal needs can put a strain on prospective educators, the dean said. Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 7 Aug. 2023 Peterson wants to teach her students about art, and about life When Peterson teaches art to students at Waukesha West High School as part of her student teaching role, Acker ― now her cooperating teacher ― is amazed at how Peterson connects with the students. Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2023 Tom Carroll worked at Orange Glen for a season while doing his student teaching, spent three years as defensive coordinator at San Marcos under Jason Texler, took two seasons off while raising a young family, and was on the Carlsbad staff last season. John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2021 Divers completed the requirements — which included 20 additional credit hours, two stints of student teaching and, for Black teaching candidates from the South, a speech class so that they could be understood in the classroom — at Cass Tech and Jefferson Intermediate School. Scott Talley, Detroit Free Press, 26 Feb. 2023 No doubt the union would seek to upend traditional work rules, wherein faculty evaluation of grad-student teaching performance would be constrained, as has been the case at UCLA, where the Teamsters became the bargaining agent for history graduate students. WSJ, 5 Jan. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1902, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of student teaching was in 1902

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“Student teaching.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/student%20teaching. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.

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