Occasionally, experienced TAs have the opportunity to teach science and engineering calculus, differential equations, or linear algebra on their own. Graduate students who have passed the Ph.D. qualifying exams might also get to grade advanced graduate courses. Throughout their careers as TAs, graduate students are offered support, guidance, and feedback. Most courses have organizational meetings every semester where the course structure and policies, as well as the role the TAs play in the course, are explained. All courses provide detailed assignment sheets which tell instructors how much time to spend on each topic and what homework problems to assign.
Most courses also have coordinators who deal with the administrative aspects and with problems.
Teaching workshops and micro-teaching sessions are offered each semester on a wide variety of topics. These workshops are usually a couple hours long and use the participants' experience, questions, or problems as starting point. They are scheduled to accommodate the participants' schedules. TA peer mentors are available to provide help and encouragement. The department also has an open classroom program that facilitates and encourages TAs to visit other TAs' classrooms.