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Teaching Assistants

Teaching Assistants (TAs) are required to:

  • attend all lectures;
  • meet with discussion section(s), if applicable.
  • hold two office hours/week. The offices available for this will be the graduate student's own office or, for PLA (PSYC 195P) students, 1503 Mandler Hall;
  • duplicate appropriate course work as needed (see Copying Policies);
  • proctor quizzes, exams, and finals (Instructor must remain present);
  • grade as requested, and
  • perform any pertinent teaching duties; full-time TAs within their first four years are responsible for one lecture. Instructor must remain present.

Make contact with your TAs prior to the beginning of the quarter. More specific information on the duties of TAs are listed in "A Guide for Teaching Assistants."

TA Training and Supervision

When a TA is assigned to a course, the faculty member in charge of that course is expected to provide TA training and supervision. At the beginning of the quarter, the faculty member should meet with the TA to explain his/her duties and responsibilities. After the initial meeting, regular weekly meetings with the TA are highly recommended. (First time TAs are also provided a Mentor TA who will work with them through the quarter.) The professors must evaluate TAs at the end of each quarter as a stipulation of the TA union contract.