Undergraduate Teaching Assistant -- Summer 2008

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JOB TITLE: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

DEPARTMENT: Computer Science and Engineering

QUARTER: Summer 2008 (June 13 - August 22)

CLASSIFICATION DESCRIPTION:

Undergraduate Teaching Assistants provide administrative support for quiz, discussion, or laboratory sections and serve as class assistants. Undergraduate Teaching Assistants may not perform teaching duties that require full responsibility for a course.

Each appointment is classified as an Academic Student Employee (ASE) and is governed by a contract between the University of Washington and GSEAC/UAW, which is found at the following website: http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/laborrel/contracts/uaw/addons/index.html

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Undergraduate TA duties and responsibilities may include the following (specific duties and responsibilities will be provided by course instructor):

• Attend lectures
• Conduct quiz section meetings
• Facilitate discussions
• Prepare lectures for quiz sections
• Prepare review materials for quiz sections
• Hold extra review sessions for exams
• Obtain room for review sessions
• Request or acquire necessary equipment
• Hold regular office hours
• Tutor students
• Manage and respond to course-related e-mail
• Prepare webpage for course materials
• Maintain (update) webpage for course materials
• Develop and maintain electronic bulletin boards, discussion sites, etc.
• Prepare assignments
• Grade assignments
• Prepare test questions
• Proctor exams
• Score exams
• Maintain grading records
• Prepare course attendance records
• Maintain course attendance records
• Calculate quarter grades
• Request student assessments for course
• Coordinate with OEA for course evaluations
• Attend instructor/TA meetings
• Act as liaison/mediator between student and professor

HOURS: Variable, not to exceed 19.5 hours/week combined for ALL UW jobs. Undergraduate TAs generally work 10-15 hours per week.

WAGES: $10.50 –$14.00 per hour, depending on experience as undergraduate TA.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE:

Registration is a three step process done online--please be sure to complete all three! :

1) Registration is for entering whether you wish to TA for the current quarter plus additional information to identify you and your general areas of interest.

• Be sure to check the box that says "I wish to TA Summer, 2008"
• Please update your general areas of interest. New categories have been added and the combined Hardware/Architecture category has been split into separate areas.
  

2) Application is for updating data about your qualifications so that instructors can more easily find the best qualified TAs.

3) Edit/Establish Course Preferences is for entering your preferences of which courses you want to TA.  In order to enter course preferences, you must first register as described in step #1. Your preferences are ranked so that we can find the best match for your preferences and the instructors' preferences.

All students must apply each quarter they wish to be considered a TA.  Students who apply and are not appointed during a given quarter will remain eligible to fill any TA openings should they occur. 

Click here for the summer 2008 TA signup page

DEADLINES:

TA online registration opens:              May 12, 2008.

TA online registration closes:             May 19, 2008, 5:00PM

Appointments posted:                       May 23, 2008 (tentative)

HIRING CRITERIA:

Undergraduate TA appointments will be based on the following criteria:

* Academic performance and progress.
* Previous TA and lab consultant performance.
* TA/Instructor preferences as determined by the applicant and potential instructors.

REQUIREMENTS: UW Undergraduate Computer Engineering or Computer Science major--enrolled for 6 credits or more in SPRING OR SUMMER QUARTER.

APPLICATION CONTACT:
Pim Lustig
126 Allen Center for CSE
pl@cs.washington.edu
206-616-3225

The University of Washington is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact the Disability Services Office at 206.543.6450 / 206.543.6452 (tty) or dso@u.washington.edu.