For Graduate Students in Physics 8. Duties and Evaluation of Graduate Appointees Graduate Assistants and Teaching Fellows who are involved in the teaching of undergraduate students in laboratories, recitations, or classroom lectures have an important task in the education of undergraduate students.
Students have every right to expect each class to meet as scheduled.
Each instructor has the responsibility for seeing that all classes are covered in the event of an excused absence. The duties will generally vary from term to term. A Teaching Fellow usually has primary responsibility for the teaching of introductory courses or recitations in physics, lectures in physical science, upperclass laboratories, or equivalent responsibility. A half-time Teaching Fellow is required to teach 3 or 4 semester credit hours which amounts to one lecture course preparation or equivalent. The student's advisor will expect the student to contribute considerably more hours than this depending on the student's course load for the term.