How Do You Be A Teaching Assistant In Grad School?
Many students who are in grad school are interested in being teaching assistants and these assistantships can be highly sought after. If you are lucky enough to have gotten a teaching assistantship in grad school, here’s how to be a good teaching assistant. Find out your teaching schedule. Typically, you will find this out from the head of the graduate department or there will be a coordinator for the teaching assistants. Meet with the professor for the class that you will be the assistant teacher. In this meeting, you will want to find out their expectations for the semester. You may have to teach laboratories, lecture, grade exams or proctor exams. Find out if you have to create your own materials and what textbooks you will need to use. Prepare any materials that you will need for the class you will be working on. Prepare a syllabus, laboratory exercises or lectures as needed. If you don’t have to prepare teaching material, review all course documents that your professor gave you to
