IV.L   Instructional Opportunities for Yale Graduate and Professional School Students

Instructional appointments for graduate and professional school students are not faculty appointments, and individuals holding them must remain registered students of their schools.

Part-time Acting Instructor. Yale graduate and professional school students who are appointed as part-time acting instructors are responsible for teaching one or more courses, seminars, or sections of a multi-section course, subject to department guidance and supervision. No one may teach more than one course in any semester at the rank of part-time acting instructor. Graduate students in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences are first eligible for this appointment at the beginning of the term after they have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. except the dissertation. In certain departments, however, students are expected to teach as PTAIs in their third year, prior to advancing to candidacy, according to a standard teaching schedule.

Teaching Fellow and Teaching Assistant. Teaching fellows are students registered in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences who have formal teaching duties assisting members of the faculty and involving regular classroom or laboratory contact with students. Students registered in one of the professional schools who perform these duties are appointed as teaching assistants. Teaching fellows may have responsibility for teaching sections of a multi-section course if supervision is provided by a regular member of the faculty. Supervision by the faculty will be expected to include assistance both in planning the work of the sections and in helping teaching fellows and teaching assistants improve their teaching.

Appointments will ordinarily be made at various levels according to policies established by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Instructional appointments for graduate and professional school students are not faculty appointments, and individuals holding them must remain registered students of their schools.

Part-time Acting Instructor. Yale graduate and professional school students who are appointed as part-time acting instructors are responsible for teaching one or more courses, seminars, or sections of a multi-section course, subject to department guidance and supervision. No one may teach more than one course in any semester at the rank of part-time acting instructor. Graduate students in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences are first eligible for this appointment at the beginning of the term after they have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. except the dissertation. In certain departments, however, students are expected to teach as PTAIs in their third year, prior to advancing to candidacy, according to a standard teaching schedule.

Teaching Fellow and Teaching Assistant. Teaching fellows are students registered in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences who have formal teaching duties assisting members of the faculty and involving regular classroom or laboratory contact with students. Students registered in one of the professional schools who perform these duties are appointed as teaching assistants. Teaching fellows may have responsibility for teaching sections of a multi-section course if supervision is provided by a regular member of the faculty. Supervision by the faculty will be expected to include assistance both in planning the work of the sections and in helping teaching fellows and teaching assistants improve their teaching.

Appointments will ordinarily be made at various levels according to policies established by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.