pupil teacher—(UK hist.) a boy or girl preparing to be a teacher, whose time was divided between teaching in an elementary school and being taught by the head teacher:
- The pupil-teacher, as a rule, we fear, learns little and teaches less.
student teacher—a student of a training college teaching in a school for a certain period as part of the curriculum:
- A new attitude in the schools would encourage student teachers to take religious education as a subsidiary subject at colleges of education.