Graduate Teaching Assistants
Assist faculty or other instructional staff in postsecondary institutions by performing teaching or teaching-related duties, such as teaching lower level courses, developing teaching materials, preparing and giving examinations, and grading examinations or papers. Graduate teaching assistants must be enrolled in a graduate school program. Graduate assistants who primarily perform non-teaching duties, such as research, should be reported in the occupational category related to the work performed.
Also called: Graduate Assistant, Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA), Instructor, Teaching Assistant (TA)
Knowledge:
- teaching and course design
Engineering and Technology
- computers and electronics
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Skills:
- reading work related information
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- come up with lots of ideas
- create new and original ideas
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need
- Integrity
- Dependability
- Attention to Detail
- Concern for Others
- Self Control
- Leadership
Technology:
Computer based training software
- Blackboard Learn
- Desire2Learn
- Google Docs
- Microsoft Word
- Email software
- Microsoft Outlook
