Teaching assistant vs graduate research assistant

Differences between teaching assistant and graduate research assistant duties and responsibilities

Teaching assistant example responsibilities.

• Lead well-received labs aim at students learning SAS including: data step, general regression models building and plots generating.
• Develop and lead ELA lessons at the 8th grade level, with an emphasis on critical reading and literary analysis.
• Assist classmates with developing positive study habits and strategies for managing classroom material.
• Lead discussion sections for students to understand concepts including introductory quantum theory and statistical thermodynamics as well as their applications.
• Develop expanded communication and teaching skills on explaining the human anatomy and its functions to achieve student understanding and patient education.
• Organize and run review sessions design to help students better understand concepts of animal anatomy and physiology.
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Graduate research assistant example responsibilities.

• Organize TA office hours, manage online gradebook, proctore exams.
• Create and lead exercises to teach linear algebra, calculus and statistics.
• Grade homework, quizzes and manage grades on online gradebook effectively as a lead TA.
• Foster cross laboratory collaboration between physics labs and between engineering, biology, and chemistry departments to accomplish share goals.
• Evaluate patients' study eligibility via medical history, obtain informed consent, enroll patients, and achieve enrollment quotas.
• Develop an RT-PCR SSCP analysis strategy for normal & tumor tissue RNA analysis.
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