Your role: Help design the course, construct tests, prepare materials, grade assignments, perhaps assume responsibility for teaching a class session.

Your responsibilities: Understand the objectives and goals the professor has set for the students so you can communicate course materials to them; know the professor's expectations of you.

Your role: Work with students one-on-one; learn about problems they are having with the course material.

Your responsibilities: Schedule and adhere to regular office hours; motivate students to see you during office hours; schedule office hours when students are available or right after class when students are most likely to have questions; provide your office phone number or e-mail address.

Your role: Grade tests, exams, essays, quizzes, lab notebooks.

Your responsibilities: Understand the course content and be able to follow a student's thinking to interpret answers that might not be complete; be consistent so your grading is fair and reliable; know your department's grading procedures and policies and work with your course supervisor to develop grading criteria; become familiar with your department's and the University's policies on academic integrity; develop strategies for dealing with angry or aggressive students.

Your role: Meet scheduled classes and lead discussions, answer questions, clarify materials.

Your responsibilities: Identify critical information from lectures or readings and then elaborate on it to help students understand the material; attend class lectures so you understand what the students need to know; in some cases, be responsible for testing and grading students' work.

Your role: Review experiments beforehand, ask and answer student questions, and evaluate students' lab work.

Your responsibilities: Know safety procedures and provide a safe environment in which students can work; prepare for lab experiments or assignments; learn how to guide students' thinking and deal with questions without giving away the answers.

Your role: Motivate students in a creative direction even though the end product is not clearly defined.

Your responsibilities: Know the expectations for studio projects and how you will communicate these expectations to your students; share a variety of visual examples with students; be aware of your department's resources to determine what teaching aids/tools are available and where you can find them.

Your role: Make independent decisions about the course including the course design, the types of tests you will use, and how you will grade your students.

Your responsibilities: Learn the basics of instructional design; develop a course syllabus based on learning objectives; plan individual class sessions; allow yourself time to plan and develop objectives for each class; check with your department secretary on administrative matters; for questions related to your course assignment, talk to the faculty member in charge of the course.