Post by Ashley Anderson on Nov 12, 2006 22:15:09 GMT -5
Teaching Assistant Contract
By signing below, you are agreeing to the terms of being a Teaching Assistant (TA) at Elvenstein. Being a TA at elvenstein is an important job as you are the ones who are assisting those who mold the students into the well rounded adult witches and wizards of the future. To be a Teaching Assistant, you are REQUIRED to do the following...
- Have a lesson ready to post at a moments notice. Since you will be filling in for Professors that are unable to post a lesson, or fail to post a lesson, it would be VERY helpful to yourself to have a lesson, if not a few, ready to use. You can either think up your own or get in touch with your class professor and discuss what you could teach in the event they are unable to post.
- If your Professor doesn't post a lesson by Tuesday at 3am Eastern Standard Time (EST), please post a lesson by Tuesday 12 Midnight EST (going into Wednesday). Sometimes, the administration is so busy that they don't get to check if a Professor has posted a lesson. Since you are the teaching assistant, you should take the initiative to check the class on Tuesday, if on Monday there was no new lesson.
- Take the initiative and post a lesson when you are required to. Unless otherwise notified, you are required to take initiative for your duties as Teaching Assistant. If the professor fails to post their lesson on time, as stated above, you are to post your lesson on that Tuesday of the new week.
- Be fair and unbias in grading and point awarding. If you are a Proud Gryphone and your character hates Unycorne's, you cannot be biased and deduct from Unycorne's and award to Gryphones UNLESS there is a reason. We must provide a fair and unbias environment where everyone is equal and there is NO FAVORITISM. This also includes those whom you are having problems with at anytime, IC or OOC. You cannot be biased to ANYONE, no acceptions!
- Allow students a whole week (seven days) to complete the homework.You must allow students a week to do the homework, if you do not post the homework on the same day you created the lesson. Sometimes students are unable to attend during certain days due to school, parents, etc. so we must allow them the time to complete it.
- Post the homework in a place that can be seen by all students.If you do not give the homework for the lesson right away, please also repost the assignment in your first post so that it is easier to find and students won't have to search through pages and pages of posts to get to it. If you did not create the first post of the lesson (in other words the professor started the lesson but cannot finish it) and cannot modify the first post, please PM the administration for help or even post a new thread with the title "Homework for Lesson #" so that students know that is the homework and will have an easier time finding it.
- If you have any problems with your assigned Professor, contact the Administration. Since you are taking up an important task of teaching someone else's class, if there are any problems please notify us, making sure to save all PMs or the communications that were shared between the two of you.
- You do not take up the rest of the class duties, just creating a lesson and grading the homework. You are the teaching assistant, not the professor. Your main duty is to post a lesson and run it for that week the Professor is unavailable, nothing else. You do not control the sign up sheet or any other part that is normally the Professor's responsibility. Your job is to do the lesson.
- Once you post a lesson, you are in control of that ENTIRE lesson. Since the Professor you were assigned to failed to post a lesson, you are in control of that class for that lesson till it is over. If the Professor hassles you about this, and they should not, please contact us. Their failure to show up caused you to have to take over for that time so you are in control till that lesson is over.
- Please remember that this is a game. Elvenstein is only a RP site and not real life. We all have real lives outside this site and we don't want to suck the fun out of roleplaying a class and doing the work for it by making it as hard as it would be in real school.
If you fail to follow these requirements, then you may be removed from your position as Professor and the class given to someone else who will uphold the said requirements.
NOTE:As a TA you are just that..an assistant to the teacher for a certain lesson. A TA will not receive any benifits besides the teaching experience. The only benifit the TA will get for teaching a class is full credit for that lesson IF they are a student in that class, and if you are a student in that class, since you are teaching you do not have to do that lesson but still receive credit.
Also when a TA is in charge, they must make clear that each student still PM their homework to that classes Professor as well as TA for proof incase and problems arise.
The Professor must post each lesson by Monday, if by Tuesday the lesson isn't posted and there is no notice from an Admin then the TA will take over and is in charge of that lesson for the remainder of that week...no questions asked!
ANOTHER NOTE:You are required to read entire whole contract. You will not be excused from not following the guidelines here once you have agreed to the stated terms.
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If you agree to the following terms, please fill out the following...
I, (name here) , agree to the terms listed above. I will uphold my duties as Teaching Assistant to the best of my ability and understand that if I fail to uphold those duties, I will be stripped of my position.
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