GTA Assignments

When employed as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, you are contracted to work 140 hours per term. As a GTA you may be hired as a grader, tutorial leader or section instructor for a Philosophy undergraduate course. GTA assignments are finalized during the summer months once undergraduate online registration has closed and course enrolment numbers are fairly certain for the upcoming academic year.

Please be advised that unless your GTA contract letter says otherwise, the department reserves 10 of your 140 term hours for mandatory supplemental duties, including proctoring exams in December and April. This leaves 130 term hours for duties internal to the course for which you are hired as a GTA. These proctoring assignments are established immediately following the publication of the final undergraduate exam schedule.

As a GTA tutorial leader/grader, you are required to keep yourself available for proctoring during the December and April exam periods. Please do not make alternate arrangements for your time until the proctoring assignment schedule has been finalized. If you are unable to proctor any of the exams to which you are assigned, then you must find a fellow GTA who is willing to switch assignments with you and must also receive approval from the Graduate Affairs Assistant for any changes that you make.

Finally, you cannot assume that you will proctor for the course to which you are assigned as a GTA. The department sometimes has to move GTAs around between different courses to satisfy proctoring needs from term to term.

Required Paperwork:

Late in the summer term, you will receive a GTA contract letter outlining the details of your employment and also a GTA Duties Specification Letter for each assignment you will hold during the upcoming academic year.

Your signed GTA contract and completed GTA Duties Specification Letter must be submitted to the Graduate Affairs Assistant by the start of your contract term. Once submitted, the Graduate Affairs Assistant will activate your contract and you will be set up for payroll through Human Resources.

The 10 hours reserved by the department for mandatory supplemental duties must be accounted for in your GTA Duties Specification Letter under "proctoring of exams." The workload in the Letter must be in line with both the GTA Collective Agreement and with your contract with the department. It cannot exceed 140 hours per term.

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