TA Assignments, Responsibilities, and Pay Rates

TA:
An apprentice appointment is for 13 weeks, which includes the week before the quarter, 10 weeks of the quarter, finals week, and the week after finals. If you have a 50% appointment you should work no more than 20 hours per week (10 hours per week for 25%) during this period. Obviously, a teaching assistant’s responsibilities are not always the same from week-to-week, so some weeks you may work fewer hours and other weeks you may work more. However you should work no more than 220 hours during a one-quarter TA appointment. 

The 20 hours per week of a 50% appointment are intended to include time spent in preparation, teaching, office hours, reading, grading, attending lectures by the faculty member in charge of the course, and any other course-related work, such as responding to student emails or holding electronic office hours. If circumstances require you temporarily to work at a combination of academic appointments totaling more than 50% time, you must have your department petition the graduate division for an exception (go to http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/ for more information). In no circumstance is a graduate student permitted to hold academic appointments totaling more than 75% time.