FAQ – Teaching Assistant

Once the TA Assignment is completed for the term, you will receive an email from the TA Coordinator advising if you have received an assignment or not. Once the assignment has been finalized, you will also be able to check Carleton Central for your offer. Priority Graduate TAs can find this in Carleton Central by clicking the “Graduate TA Management System” link found under the Student Support Services menu. Outside Priority TAs can find this in Carleton Central by clicking the “TA Outside Priority Applications” link under the TA Management menu.

• Fully-funded Priority graduate students in Math and Stats
• Full-time graduate students in any department who do not have a priority TA
• Full- or part-time undergraduate students in any department, who are in 2^nd year or higher with a CGPA greater than 9.0

Yes, the School reserves the right to cancel any course tutorial section or replace or reassign teaching assistants for any reason, at any time prior to the third scheduled class, in which case your “Assignment of Duties” contract is thereby ended.

There is no need to contact the School, your application will be kept on file and you may be selected if the schedule is revised. Please continue to check the online TA assignment list daily for revisions.

At the beginning of your contract, you will have to provide documentation to HR. Payments will be made by direct deposit to your bank account. You can check the pay dates here. Your first pay cheque or the term will be on the last pay date in September for the Fall term, January for the Winter term, and May for the Summer term.

Tutorials are typically 55 hours of work, and labs are typically 32.5 hours of work. In total, a TA can only be assigned a maximum of 130 hours in a term which works out to approximately 10 hours a week.

Under the supervision of the course instructor (faculty or contract instructor ), you may be assigned duties related to marking, tutorial attendance and participation, office hours and similar duties depending on your particular assignment.

• Keep in touch with your course instructor during the term.
• Make sure your instructor has your email address and telephone number.
• Be on time for all meetings with your instructor.
• Be prepared for and attend your assigned tutorial section and office hours.
• Promptly return marked assignments as required by the instructor.

An orientation will be held for new TAs in the beginning of September during orientation week.

You must contact your instructor as soon as you are made aware that you won’t be able to attend your scheduled tutorial. If you are unable to contact your instructor, please e-mail the Math and Stats TA Coordinator Matt Paslawski at mattpaslawski@cunet.carleton.ca. Time-permitting, it is your responsibility to find coverage for a missed tutorial. You will get an email address to reach out to other TAs to find coverage.

If unable to contact your instructor, contact Tracie Grisim (tracie.grisim@carleton.ca, 613-520-2155) in the main office as soon as possible.

Tutorials begin on the second week of classes and end on the last week of classes.

All TAs can hold their office hours in the Addleman-Semple Resource Centre HP4317, or in the lobby in front of the Math Tutorial Centre HP4322. Graduate TAs can hold their office hours in the PhD Student offices, HP4250, HP4260 and HP4270.

Once per academic year the TA Coordinator will sit in on a tutorial and observe your teaching. This is meant to provide feedback on your teaching and classroom management and is not an evaluation or assessment of your performance.

No, you will need to reapply each term.

Matt Paslawski – Teaching Assistant Coordinator
mattpaslawski@cunet.carleton.ca
(613) 520-2600 x5093