Assistant lecturer vs laboratory teaching assistant

Differences between assistant lecturer and laboratory teaching assistant duties and responsibilities

Assistant lecturer example responsibilities.

• Develop and lead ELA lessons at the 8th grade level, with an emphasis on critical reading and literary analysis.
• Complete weekly and semester reports to help enhance the math department curriculum.
• Direct weekly student-run seminar in math, mentoring students on topics and moderating talks.
• Provide economics lectures, assist professors with research activities, guide students with homework and research activities.
• Design additional PowerPoint lectures and writing activities to supplement the regular curriculum to help students in their learning.
• Lecture on government ethics, legal ethics, corporate ethics and professional responsibility.
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Laboratory teaching assistant example responsibilities.

• Lead and instruct college level students in the fundamentals of astronomy through experiments design to teach basics to non-engineering majors.
• Manage and develop the instruction of anatomy and physiology labs.
• Lead discussion sections for students to understand concepts including introductory quantum theory and statistical thermodynamics as well as their applications.
• Operate laboratory equipment including IR spectrometers, NMR spectrometers and mass spectrometers.
• Plan lessons for laboratory, split grading responsibilities with other TA, assist students with weekly laboratory experiments.
• Head laboratory instructor for general physiology, comparative physiology, comparative morphology, anatomy and physiology, and herpetology.
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