Graduate Teaching Assistant Job Description
Graduate Teaching Assistant Job Profile and Description
Upon graduation from college, it is not uncommon to find students proceeding to work in the university as a college teacher while pursuing a post graduate education. But many become Graduate Teaching Assistants which offers a better alternative since you can’t become one unless you’re enrolled in a graduate masteral course. Graduate Teaching Assistants provide academic and logistical support to graduate professors, performing teaching and non=teaching tasks. They are often found assisting professor in field or lab research work, depending on the subject as well as conduct classes in lower undergraduate classed as a substitute teacher or in grading students thesis and test papers.
Graduate Teaching Assistant Duties and Responsibilities
- Observe work hours as assigned by the professor and the college timekeeping rules and regulations.
- Perform tasks as may be assigned by the professor relevant to teaching and non-teaching work as agreed.
- Assist the professor as a substitute teacher in undergraduate courses
- Assist the professor in laboratory or field research or in assignments related to the furtherance of the course requirements.
- Assist the professor in paperwork such as grading student thesis, term papers and exams.
- Review journals and textbooks that have the potential to be part of the curriculum’s reading requirements.
Graduate Teaching Assistant Skills and Specifications
- Must have excellent communications in both oral and written media.
- Must have excellent organizational, analytical and reasoning skills.
Graduate Teaching Assistant Education and Qualifications
- A BS degree in the relevant course is basic
Graduate Teaching Assistant Salary
The annual median salary of a Graduate Teaching Assistant in 2009 stood at $31,600 with the middle 50% receiving from $22,700 to $41,000. The bottom 20% earned about $16,600 while the top 10% got $50,300. This salary varies between graduate schools and between states.