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Must maintain full-time status to maintain TA status. There were no interview questions, I was hired solely because of my status as grad student and 2+ years of nursing experience. Because of the lax requirements for becoming a TA, many graduate teaching assistants were severely unfit for their teaching roles.
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Graduate Teaching Assistant

Interviewed at Washington State University

3.8
Jan 28, 2015

Must maintain full-time status to maintain TA status. There were no interview questions, I was hired solely because of my status as grad student and 2+ years of nursing experience. Because of the lax requirements for becoming a TA, many graduate teaching assistants were severely unfit for their teaching roles.

On the 2nd year interview, the tough question she asked: Given that I would be teaching multiple sections, I wouldn't be able to spend an exorbitant amount of time critiquing one student's essay. How would I balance giving effective feedback with the fact that I had 30 student papers to grade. (She said my response to the student was spot-on, but it was long. I remember trying super hard on it to at least show that I knew what the student's problem was.)
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Graduate Teaching Assistant

Interviewed at The University of Massachusetts Amherst

4.3
Apr 29, 2015

On the 2nd year interview, the tough question she asked: Given that I would be teaching multiple sections, I wouldn't be able to spend an exorbitant amount of time critiquing one student's essay. How would I balance giving effective feedback with the fact that I had 30 student papers to grade. (She said my response to the student was spot-on, but it was long. I remember trying super hard on it to at least show that I knew what the student's problem was.)

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