Assistant teachers are additional teachers assisting a primary teacher, often in the same class room. An example for the use of assistant teachers is the German Assistant teacher programme of the Educational Exchange Service

Assistant teacher programme of the Educational Exchange Service

A Foreign Language Assistant is an assistant teacher, usually a native speaker, assisting a teacher of modern foreign languages in another country in lessons about the native language of the assistant....

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British schools employ teaching assistants

Teaching assistant (United Kingdom)

A teaching assistant or educational assistant in schools in England and Wales is a person who supports a teacher in the classroom...

, who are not qualified teachers, and as such, are guided by teachers but may supervise and teach groups of pupils independently. The Japanese education system employs Assistant Language Teacher

Assistant Language Teacher

Assistant Language Teacher is a term that was created by the Japanese Ministry of Education at the time of the creation of the JET Programme as a translation of the term 外国語指導助手 or literally "foreign language instruction assistant." The terms AET , ELT and NESA Assistant Language Teacher (ALT)...

s in elementary, junior high and high schools in Japan.

Learning by teaching

Learning by teaching

In professional education, learning by teaching designates currently the method by Jean-Pol Martin that allows pupils and students to prepare and to teach lessons, or parts of lessons...

 (LdL) is a method which allows pupils and students to prepare and teach lessons or parts of lessons.

See also

• Bell-Lancaster method
  Bell-Lancaster method
  The Monitorial System was an education method that became popular on a global scale during the early 19th century. This method was also known as "mutual instruction" or the "Bell-Lancaster method" after the British educators Dr Andrew Bell and Joseph Lancaster who both independently developed it...
  
  
• Teaching assistant
  Teaching assistant
  A teaching assistant is an individual who assists a professor or teacher with instructional responsibilities. TAs include graduate teaching assistants , who are graduate students; undergraduate teaching assistants , who are undergraduate students; secondary school TAs, who are either high school...
  
   (University)
• Tutor
  Tutor
  A tutor is a person employed in the education of others, either individually or in groups. To tutor is to perform the functions of a tutor.-Teaching assistance:...