student teacher

1. 1.

   a college student who is teaching under the supervision of a certified teacher in order to qualify for a degree in education

   Synonymspractice teacher

   Broadercollege student

Questions about student teacher

What does student teacher mean?

student teacher means "a college student who is teaching under the supervision of a certified teacher in order to qualify for a degree in education".

What is another word for student teacher?

Close synonyms include practice teacher. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is student teacher a common word?

student teacher is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.