UP Teaching Assistantship Program
Rationale
While the existing scheme for Teaching Associates and Teaching Fellows allows departments or colleges to hire non-regular academic personnel as the need arises, the proposed establishment of Teaching Assistantships recognizes the need to yet improve the supply side. It aims to give the finest students of UP the opportunity to share their knowledge and skills through teaching even while they are studying. It also aims to ease the process of hiring staff who can teach or assist in teaching (lecture and laboratory courses).
As the quality of the supply increases and the process becomes easier, the demand should also increase. This is envisioned to result in more departments making use of teaching assistants to unload their regular faculty members of teaching duties.
About the Program
The UP Teaching Assistantship (Teaching Fellows and Teaching Associates) Program has been implemented since AY 2015-16.
Teaching Assistants are either Teaching Associates (TAs) –Master’s students, or Teaching Fellows (TFs) – Ph.D. students, who are pursuing their studies half-time and are assisting in classes half-time. They are postgraduate student scholars who have been instrumental in reducing the teaching load of the faculty, giving them more time to conduct research or pursue postgraduate studies.