Abstract:

The teaching assistant system in North American universities is well developed. It has been proved very effective, which has clear development objectives and evaluation system mechanisms. It provides a pretty good guide for improving the graduate student teaching assistant system in China. The paper introduces the graduate student teaching assistant system in North American universities and their positive experiences, analyzes the current status and problems of the graduate student teaching assistant system in China, and gives some suggestions on training of graduate student teaching assistants.

Key words: graduate student education;teacher training;teaching assistant;evaluation