Full-time tutors are expected to work an average of 35 hours/week for the entire four month work term. Tutors have some control over setting their hours (e.g marking time and office hours). Due to the nature of the tutoring position, tutors may be asked to work some evenings or weekends.
TAs are expected to work an average of 5 hours/week for 16 weeks (per TA unit). The period of employment is from the first day of classes until the last day of the examination period.
Some weeks require more time (e.g. the weeks containing the midterm and final exams) and other weeks require less (e.g the first week of the term when there are no assignments to mark). Pay is based on an average work week. If you feel that you have consistently have too much to do in your allotted time, please discuss the matter with your IS Coordinator before your work begins to suffer. Similarly, if you feel that you have too little to do, please approach the IS Coordinator.
Staff members are not normally expected to work on official University holidays (e.g Christmas, Thanksgiving, Canada Day, etc.). However, people often confuse University Holidays with non-lecture days. Frosh Week, Study Week, and the days in between lectures and examinations are non-lecture days, but they are not University holidays. Thus, tutors and TAs can expect to work on these days unless explicitly told otherwise. Neither tutors nor TAs should make end-of-term travel plans without first contacting their supervisor.
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Tel: 519-888-4567 x33293
Fax: 519-885-1208
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