• Staff home
• IT and online services
• Learning and teaching
  • Community Engaged Learning (CEL)
  • Learning Design and Technology
  • Quality assurance
  • Academic Practice
    • Lecturing staff
    • Graduate teaching assistants
      • University Policy on GTAs
    • Research staff who teach
    • Teaching leaders
    • Supervising Dissertations and Projects workshop
  • Inclusive-Learning@York
  • Student learning support
  • Contacts and committees
• Administrative hub
• Research
• Supporting students
• Project and change management
• Working at York
• Finance
• Legal Services
• Leisure and culture
• Support, health and wellbeing
• Policies and strategies
• External relations

8. Managing GTA performance

Principle: departments must deal effectively with any concerns about GTA performance. 

80. GTAs fall within the scope of the University of York Statement on Teaching Performance Expectations.

81. Departments are responsible for ensuring a high quality student learning experience and GTA Coordinators and module leaders should deal swiftly and robustly with any concerns about a GTA’s performance (whether this arises from student reporting, observation, evaluation forms, or other forms of monitoring). 

82. Where it is felt that there is potential for a GTA to improve their performance to an acceptable standard within an appropriate timeframe, action should be taken to facilitate this (eg through the provision of further training, or asking the GTA to team-teach alongside an academic member of staff or more experienced GTA). If it is felt that the GTA is not in a position to improve their performance to an acceptable standard within an appropriate timeframe, the GTA should be suspended from their position and offered development opportunities. GTAs should only be redeployed if their performance has been judged to be satisfactory.