Many graduate students at Cornell are supported through teaching assistantships. With a teaching assistantship, you are expected to perform duties associated with the teaching of one or more university courses. These duties may include grading, teaching one or more recitation sections, or teaching laboratory sections.
Cornell offers variety of opportunities to get formal training in teaching and has resources dedicated to educational issues and research on campus. The following programs offer excellent professional development opportunities and we think everyone -- whether you are interested in teaching as a career or not -- should review what these programs have to offer.