Teaching Guide

In this comprehensive University devoted to teaching, research, and service, teaching is a critical component of faculty activity. Whether you are joining us as a brand new Graduate Teaching Associate or as a tenured Professor, what you do in the classroom is the University as it is experienced by our students, their parents, and the citizens of Tennessee who support us. To excel in the classroom, you need an excellent infrastructure, which is what we are committed to providing you.

This guide is designed for those of you who are new to university teaching and for those of you who are moving to UT from teaching jobs elsewhere. Details about many processes ranging from how to find your classrooms, how to help students who want to drop or add courses, how to assign grades, to how to change requirements for degrees are all included. Not all of you will need to know about all of these processes. However, this guide will serve as a quick reference to help you find out what you need to know when you need to know it.