Peer Teaching Assistant

The Success Course Peer Teaching Assistants are responsible for providing leadership, information, and resources, and fostering a learning environment for all students enrolled in the UN Success Courses in the fall & spring semesters.

• Develop a positive relationship with the students in your section. Meet weekly with your section instructor to help create lesson plans for the course, deliver class material, grade, and create interactive activities.
• Deliver weekly announcements about campus events, activities, and academic deadlines.
• Be a supportive role model for the students in your section.
• Maintain the confidentiality of grading information, as well as student issues and concerns.
• Be available to spend two hours per week on success course-related work. This includes your weekly class meeting time, instructor meeting time, and any outside preparatory time.
• Willing and able to complete summer training modules in Canvas, and
• Fall Training on Monday, August 31, 2026.

• Enrolled as a full-time undergraduate student for the fall semester.
• Have completed two semesters of academic work at Michigan Tech by the time the appointment begins.
• Must have a minimum cumulative and semester grade point average (GPA) of 2.50 at the time of application and maintain it throughout his/her time as a staff member.
• Must be free of any disciplinary sanctions imposed through the Office of Academic and Community Conduct at the time of application and remain free while employed with the Waino Wahtera Center for Student Success.
• Must have satisfactory academic progress towards their degree. 

• Knowledge about, or experience with, the ExSEL program, living-learning communities, or academic probation process at Michigan Tech.
• Have taken UN1000, UN1010, and/or UN1011 in a previous semester.
• Demonstrated understanding of the skills and habits necessary to be academically successful.
• Experience with CANVAS.