The topic should be an elementary concept that can be explained in five minutes and is appropriate for beginning students. Topics can include defining a key concept in the discipline, comparing and contrasting two concepts, providing examples to explain a concept and explaining why a concept is important. The department should have a bank of 8-10 topics and rotate them so that ITAs cannot know in advance of receiving the topic what it will be. Explain sign, cosign and tangent and give examples of each. This score is sent to the ITA, the department and the dean of the college.
Proficiency is described as a numerical score ranging from four to zero.
A score of 4L indicates that the ITA's English is sufficient for teaching as a GI in a language course only, but not sufficient for teaching as GI in a non-language courses in that department or another department on campus. A score of 3 indicates that the ITA communicates effectively with only minor problems, using grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation that do not significantly interfere with intelligibility. These ITAs are qualified for leading discussion or review sections of a course taught by a professor. An ITA who receives a score of 2 is generally comprehensible, but makes occasional grammar, vocabulary or pronunciation mistakes. The ITA in these cases is in charge of the laboratory experiments and is assisting an instructor who has primary teaching responsibility for the course.