Teaching Assistanships

TA Hours Required
TA Rates of Pay & Health Care Spending Account
Payment of TA
Chemistry Job Postings

TA Hours Required

Students are required to complete teaching assistantship relative to the scholarship support they hold. The prescribed number of hours is assigned to students usually within 10% (i.e., where 200 hours is required, the student may be assigned 180 to 210 hours).

Students may also be asked to take a TA appointment during the summer to complete their required hours. Positions and hours are generally limited at the St. George campus but there are options either at the UTSC or UTM campus.

• Teaching assistant positions are generally first assigned to students who are funded mainly from a UT fellowship.
• Students who are awarded a Teaching Reduction UT Fellowship are required to complete no more than 100 hours of teaching assistantship throughout the academic year (September 1 to August 31 of the following year). Those who complete more than 100 hours will be required to repay the full amount of TR-UT fellowship instalments.
• Major scholarship holders with more than $15K in funding are not required to TA and therefore do not need to file an application. However, if a student wishes to take up at least a 50 hour contract then an application must be submitted to the Chemistry Graduate Office by the deadline.
• Students may also take up teaching assistant positions at other departments at University of Toronto in all three campuses to fulfill the required hours. A copy of the contract to the Chemistry Graduate office will confirm that the TA requirement has been fulfilled. For other TA postings, please visit the CUPE3902 website.
• (Only applicable to doctoral students) Although a graduate student's preference as to the campus location of his or her TA appointment will be taken into account, both the initial TA appointment and the subsequent appointment obligation related to that appointment may be met through position(s) on any one of the three University of Toronto campuses (UTM, UTSC or St. George) in courses in the same discipline within the Department. The timing of the subsequent appointment may not necessarily be assigned in the same session as the initial appointment but inclusive within the academic year, ie. September to August.
• Students beyond the funded cohort (ie. MSc year 2, PhD years 5+, Direct/Transfer PhD years 6+) are recommended to apply to all three campuses and other departments.
• Students who wish to TA more than their required hours are strongly recommended to obtain their supervisor's approval to avoid miscommunication over hours being spent in the lab. This includes assignments obtained from other departments.

TA Rates of Pay & Health Care Spending Account

Rates are based on the CUPE3902 Collective Agreement. Master's and doctoral students receive the current hourly rate of pay (noted as T4 pay on your monthly paystub) + 4% vacation pay less legal deductions and union dues.

Students who have an appointment of fifty hours or more during the academic year (September 1 to August 31 of the following year) are eligible for the Health Care Spending Account.

For more information on rates and the HCSA, please visit the Human Resources & Equity Office.

Payment of TA

Teaching assistantship (T4) is paid in equal monthly installments based on the total hours and over the period of the contract. Appointments are based on the length of the course. The pay is payable on the 28th of each month, or the closest Friday if the 28th falls on a weekend.

Chemistry Job Postings

The Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, is hiring teaching assistants for courses to be offered during the 2009-2010 academic year. The number of positions available/required for each course, and the hours allocated to each position, will ultimately be determined by enrolment and are subject to budgetary constraints.

Teaching Assistantship postings for the 2009-2010 academic year.

UT St. George postings
Applications were due on July 3. Applications are no longer being accepted.

UT Scarborough postings
Applications are due on July 21.
Application Procedure

UT Mississauga postings
Applications are due on August 4.
Application Procedure