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Originally Posted by Florian1980
Gives you nothing? I think teaching experience and communication skills are as valuable as research experience, both for your personal development (confidence etc.) and for your career (esp. if you want to pursue an academic career).
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I agree. TA gives you:
i) money
ii) develops your presentation skills and adds in your resume
I consider it highly unlikely to be give you teaching duties the first year. Most probably you will just grade multiple choice tests and supervise exams and deliver the mid-term and end-year evaluations. maybe they will give you some office hours too.
When I was doing a PhD I was paid as a TA but I had more duties of a RA and I had to take a 3 week orientation course and a two-semester coure "Oral communication in Teaching" which had also a lab (!) component where giving presentations which were videotaped and examined by a commitee (!).
Go for RA without second thoughts.
