Questions tagged [teaching-assistant]
Questions concerning the use of graduate students as course instructors, usually under the supervision of a faculty member.
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Should I accept an offer of being a teacher assistant without pay?
At my last statistics II class, the teacher said told all the students that, if one of us wanted to be his teacher's assistant for this course, they could send an email or arrange a meeting to talk ...
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Does Being a TA for an Irrelevant Course Benefit My Resume?
Would having experience as a TA for a course outside my field be seen as a positive on resume?
How might this experience be perceived by potential employers or academic committees, especially when it'...
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Does a Teaching Assistantship get counted as Teaching Experience when applying for teaching position in India?
In the Indian academic system, does one's teaching experience such as being a teaching assistant count towards one's application for an Assistant Professorship? My TAship involved everything from ...
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Is there generally a relationship between a dept's research grant numbers and the teaching loads they give PhD students?
To me, one of the most important factors that differentiates a good PhD program in the US and a bad one is the teaching expectations placed on the student. In some departments, PhD students are ...
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Does TAing the same course repeatedly help your academic career path?
I'm a PhD student specializing in computer vision, with a previous Master's degree.
Until now, I have TAed the 5xx course "Introduction to Computer Vision" twice, and 4 other courses (...
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Feasibility and Legality of Simultaneously Being a TA and RA During a PhD Program in Different Countries
I am currently exploring the possibility of undertaking a PhD and have a query regarding the roles of Teaching Assistant (TA) and Research Assistant (RA). I am particularly interested in understanding ...
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Ethical and Normative Aspects of Unpaid TA Positions with High Workload for Recommendation Letters
I'm facing a situation at my university that I'm not sure is standard or ethical, and I'd like some outside perspectives. In certain courses, we have about 60 teaching assistants (TAs), all of whom ...
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Having a relationship with one my students as TA? [duplicate]
I'm a teaching assistant and the semester is almost over. I might be a TA next semester too. I like one of my students, but I think it's not professional to tell her. Is it wrong to ask her out, or ...
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Is It appropriate for students to express interest in becoming a non-funded TA for a specific course?
I am an undergraduate student and along with some of my peers, we are interested in the possibility of becoming teaching assistants (TAs) for a particular course taught by a professor in the US whom I ...
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What should I do if my professor is selectively favouring natives for TA positions?
I'm a third year graduate student pursuing a PhD in Europe. My field of work is computational chemistry (mostly involving developing software packages). In addition to that I have a masters in Physics....
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Feasibility of a Makeup Exam
I'm currently a TA for a first-year math course (at a US university), and one of my students wasn't feeling well on the day of the midterm exam for this course. They emailed the instructor their ...
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Advice on class teaching as a beginner with public-speaking anxiety
I am a first year PhD student in Mathematics and I am teaching a first year undergraduate tutorial-style class. I have done lots of one-on-one tutoring before and quite enjoyed it, but I am struggling ...
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How to move forward after microaggression allegations against my TA
Context: I am an associate professor of mathematics at a small liberal-arts college in the US.
I am teaching multiple sections of a general-education mathematics course this fall, and I have an ...
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Decreasing the workload of Teaching Assistants
I am a teaching assistant auditor at my university and my duty is to assess the working conditions of the TAs in my department (Physics & Astronomy). To do this, I send out surveys towards the end ...
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Should a TA position which requires teaching a class offer more money than one that doesn't?
I am currently a PhD student (international) at a University in the US (TX). I was offered a TA position, however the position requires me to work as an instructor of the course. I worked before as ...
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