Student Jobs with ECE

We are no longer accepting applications for Fall 2009. Please watch for an announcement on when to apply for Spring 2010 positions.

*OSU requires that ALL Teaching Assistants for Lab Courses and courses where there
is contact with students pass the SPEAK and ITA exams if necessary.

You can find more information at english.okstate.edu/ita.

Please submit your application only one time as multiple sending will cause your application to be removed.

1. Typically, first semester/transfer students will not be awarded TA positions.
2. A recommendation from a faculty member is generally expected in order for you to be considered for a TA/RA position, but is not a guarantee of a position.
3. The School is responsible for all TA appointments; individual faculty members are responsible for all RA appointments on their own research projects.
4. If you are hired, you will be contacted by this office to complete payroll sign up paperwork.
5. You will be required to bring a social security card, and various other forms of identification, a blank voided check (for payroll direct deposit), and a work clearance (if needed).
6. Download the Assistantship Application. Once you have filled out the needed information, email it to Lory Ferguson at lory.ferguson@okstate.edu. Please attach an unofficial transcript to the email.

If you have any problems or questions please email Lory at: lory.ferguson@okstate.edu.

Download Assistantship Application Form here.

* Oklahoma state law, Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education policy and institutional policy (catalog p. 180) require that all instructors, including graduate teaching assistants, be proficient in speaking the English language so that they may adequately instruct students. Instruction includes both classroom and laboratory assignments.

Demonstration of an “acceptable level of spoken English” for students at OSU proceeds in several steps:

1. The international student whose native language is not English must present a score of at least
   
   • a.    50 (out of 60) on the Test of Spoken English (TSE); or
   • b.    26 on the Speaking section of the internet-based TOEFL (ibT); or
   • c.    50 (out of 60) on the OSU-administered SPoken English Assessment Kit (SPEAK).
   
   
2. The student must complete a two-session orientation workshop.



3. International students who have successfully completed items (1) and (2) must then pass the OSU-administered International Teaching Assistant (ITA) Test. This test consists of a 5-minute presentation before a group of faculty and students, ideally from the department in which the student wishes to teach, followed by a 5-minute question-and-answer period. Students who
• pass the ITA test are permitted to be deployed in a classroom or laboratory instructional setting;
• make a “provisional pass” may be deployed in an instructional setting, subject to concurrent enrollment in GRAD 5990, a one-credit course;
• do not meet the requirements for a provisional pass may not be employed in an instructional setting. Further, they may retake the ITA examination only after enrolling in the GRAD 5990 course.