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by jvano on Fri Feb 13, 2004 at 03:24:43 PM PDT

Some questions you might want to ask about TAing:

Will you be a teaching assistant (running discussion sections for a professor) or will you be teaching your own class?
For upper level graduate students, is there an opportunity for them to teach their own class?
How many "contact hours" with the students will you have (or be expected to have)?
How many students will you be TAing for (how many different discussion sections and how many students in each discussion section)?
How much grading are you expected to do as a TA?
Does the department have at TA training session (or more generally what, if anything, do they do for TA training)?
Is there a TA union on campus?

Another related question to ask:

How many students get research assistant (RA) positions where they can work on their dissertation without worrying about teaching?

I'm sure there are other important questions about TAing that I've forgotten here so please reply to this comment to flesh out what I've forgoten...

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