Laboratory teaching assistant vs teaching & research assistant

Differences between laboratory teaching assistant and teaching & research assistant duties and responsibilities

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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Teaching & research assistant example responsibilities.

• Evaluate patients' study eligibility via medical history, obtain informed consent, enroll patients, and achieve enrollment quotas.
• Design and teach workshops on serial communication, basic python, and open computer vision library.
• Guide and monitor classroom lab activities involving SPSS software, research analysis, and data compilation.
• Assemble, correlate and analyze research outcomes using SPSS, and synthesize data and findings graphically using charts.
• Prepare and teach lab sections for undergraduate-level cartography and spatial statistics courses, and graduate-level raster GIS course.
• Design questionnaire for tobacco study, collect data by going on fields, enter data, create SAS databases.
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