The Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures hires advanced language students to work as undergraduate teaching assistants (T.A.s'). After a brief training program, these teaching assistants will lead 50-minute drill sessions in the target language for our first-year students either in Chinese, French, German, Italian, or Spanish. These T.A. sessions complement the 3 hours led by the court instructor.

T.A.s' lead recitation sessions for groups of no more than 13 students to reinforce material introduced in class by the instructor. T.A. responsibilities include:

• Meeting weekly with the course instructor in charge to discuss material to be drilled and coordinate appropriate exercises.
• Organizing and preparing all exercises to be presented in the drill session.
• Presenting drills and maintaining a vital classroom atmosphere.
• Taking attendance at all drill sessions and report the attendance record to the court instructor (either weekly intervals or at the end, as agreed).
• Communicating any concerns to either the course instructor (firstly) or to Annette Levine, the T.A. Program Director.

The Program is explicitly designed to (1) help T.A.s' be comfortable in their role in front of the classroom; and (2) provide healthy and vital drill sessions for our first-year students.

Pay Rate: $15.00

Instruction to Applicants 

Interested applicants must apply online at ithaca.edu/jobs and attach a resume and cover letter. Questions about online application should be directed to the Office of Human Resources at humanresources@ithaca.edu. Screening of applications will begin immediately.

Preference will be given to students with Federal Work Study (FWS) eligibility. For questions, please contact Student Employment at StudentEmployment@ithaca.edu.