<p>how many of your classes are taught by TA's?
it would be great to get an answer from someone whose pre-med</p>
<p>bump im interested too. I’m also premed!</p>
<p>I’ve never had a class taught by a TA. I have had one class taught by a grad student though, but he knew his stuff, and he graduated at the end of the year he taught the class. </p>
<p>What TAs have done for some of my classes are have review sessions before exams, grade homework, and grade the exams themselves.</p>
<p>For the two pre-med class I took, physics and chem, we had TA’s, but they didn’t play a very active role in the class. For chem there were weekly discussion sections where we had quizzes, which were led by TA’s (in addition to the class lecture obviously). For physics, I think each class had a TA who graded hw and had weekly helproom hours, but didn’t have any scheduled class time. That’s also how it is with almost all math classes, office hours and HW grading but nothing much beyond that. Also a lot of TA’s will hold review sessions for midterms and finals and all that (which you should be sure to thank them for because they don’t get paid any extra for doing so, and most of them do it simply out of kindness).</p>
<p>Thats what I was hoping. I’m fine with a class having TA’s as long as professors are doing most of the actual teaching. Thanks to both of you</p>
<p>So who teaches the labs? At some of the schools I visited, the TAs taught lab. And the TAs were still undergrads…</p>
<p>All the EE labs I’ve had, there have mostly been grad students running the labs with undergrads who help. They just walk around and answer questions.</p>
<p>Yea labs are taught by TA’s (usually grad students) pretty much everywhere for almost all classes that have labs.</p>