Results Key: Oral Language Assessment
The International Teaching Assistant Program (ITAP) reviews the evaluations and assigns a language-proficiency level between 4 and 0. This result is sent to the candidate and to the candidate's teaching academic program and college.
Please note that language assessment results do not guarantee a TA/RA/GI position, they only determine eligibility.
Oral Language Assessment Scores Key
| Level |
Examples of Appropriate Activities |
Examples of Inappropriate Activities |
|---|
| 4-Graduate Instructor |
- Independently lecture
- Prepare lecture and course materials
- "Guest lecture" in another instructor's class
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| 3-Advanced Laboratory Assistants, Recitation, Review or Discussion Section leaders |
- Receive teaching materials and information from the coordinating faculty member
- Review information previously introduced in lecture
- Facilitate discussion and problem solving
- Help students apply previously learned information to specific problems and/or cases
- Conduct pre-lab orientations including relevance to previously introduced theory and principles
- "Guest lecture" when the course instructor is present
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- Develop teaching materials
- Introduce new course information/ideas
- Present for more than 50 minutes
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| 2-Foreign Language Instructor |
- Independent lecture in native language with brief explanations and clarifications in English
- Prepare lecture and course materials
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- Present for extended periods of time (10 minutes) in English
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| 2-Basic Laboratory Assistants |
- Inform undergraduates of safety protocols and maintain a safe environment throughout the laboratory experience
- Explain actions that students must take to complete a laboratory when relevance to theory and principles was previously explained in lecture
- Give explanations that are reinforced by visual representations or models
- Hold office hours to answer individual questions
- Work with students individually and in small groups to answer questions and assist with equipment or calculations
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- Introduce theory and principles
- Present for no more than 10 minutes
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| 1-Supervised, Individual Assistants |
- Assist an instructor or TA in a classroom, laboratory or office (ex: assist students with lab equipment, proctor tests, handout/collect papers, verify attendance)
- Work with students individually and in small groups assist in answering questions when supervised by an instructor or TA
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- Interact with undergraduates without another instructor/TA present
- Make classroom/laboratory presentations of any kind
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