Abstract
This article aimed to describe the experience of a nursing student as a Trainee Assistant in the discipline Human Histology, highlighting this task as a facilitating instrument in teaching and learning process at a public university. This is a descriptive, experience report-type study of classroom and laboratory activities with about 40 students. It was found that the presence of the Trainee Assistant in the classroom made the students more confortable to raise questions about the contents taught by the teacher, thus facilitating the interaction between students and mentor teacher. Thus, the presence of the monitor in the classroom demystifies the unquestionable figure attributed to the teacher, contributing to make students more comfortable, facilitate the application of active learning that aim to implement the horizontal model of teaching and allow a rich exchange of experiences, creating and reinventing ways to acquiring new knowledge.