TA Resources

TA Applications

The Department of Integrative Biology Has Teaching Assistantship positions in various courses in the department. Inclluding Zoo 151, 152, 101, 102 and much more.

We are now accepting TA applications for the Fall 2025 semester. If interested, please fill out the application form. Contact Nazan Gillie with any questions you may have.

Information for Teaching Assistants

Teaching Philosophy

As part of the University of Wisconsin System, we are dedicated to follow the Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP), a national public advocacy and campus action initiative of the Association of American Colleges & Universities launched in 2005. LEAP champions the importance of a twenty-first-century liberal education—for individual students and for a nation dependent on economic creativity and democratic vitality. LEAP responds to the changing demands of the twenty-first century—demands for more college-educated workers and more engaged and informed citizens. Today, and in the years to come, college graduates need higher levels of learning and knowledge as well as strong intellectual and practical skills to navigate this more demanding environment successfully and responsibly. To help students achieve this, we have the responsibility to aim for the Essential Learning Outcomes.

FERPA

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974, as amended – is a federal law that governs the privacy of student educational records, access to those records, and disclosure of information from them. These rules apply to TAs as graduate students but also to TAs as instructors. TAs need to be aware of what they can and cannot share about their students. Here are the key terms of FERPA.

TA Benefits Information

There are several benefits to being a TA. All benefits listed below can be discussed with your Department’s HR Generalist.

Graduate Student Benefit Information and Forms