Overview
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Baskin Engineering hires its Teaching Assistants quarter.
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The BE Graduate Student Affairs team facilitates the TA hiring process in collaboration with the department's Graduate Directors approximately ten weeks before the start of the quarter.
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See their Teaching Assistant Information web page for more information.
Position Description
A Teaching Assistant is a registered graduate student chosen for excellent scholarship and promise as a teacher and serving an apprenticeship under a faculty member's active tutelage and supervision. A Teaching Assistant is not responsible for the instructional content of a course, for the selection of student assignments, for the planning of examinations, or the final approval of the term grade for a student. Neither is the Teaching Assistant to be assigned responsibility for instructing the entire enrollment of a course or for providing the entire instruction of a group of students enrolled in a course. The Teaching Assistant is responsible only for the conduct of recitation, laboratory, or quiz sections, and grading, under the active direction and supervision of a member of the faculty to whom responsibility for the course’s entire instruction, including the performance of Teaching Assistants, has been assigned.