GSI - ASIANLAN ; Fall
Listed on 2026-07-03
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Education / Teaching
Tutoring, University Professor, English Teacher / ESL TEFL, Academic
Graduate Student Instructor Positions
Graduate Student Instructor positions are only open to current or matriculating University of Michigan graduate students.
Responsibilities include teaching up to three hours of recitation sections a week, attending lectures twice each week, implementing teaching plans, grading assignments, proctoring exams, attending weekly meetings with a supervising faculty member, holding office hours, and preparing class materials.
Students who have not previously been a GSI for the College of LSA will be required to complete the online CRLT GSI Teaching Orientation. Students who have not previously been a GSI for the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures will also be required to attend a departmental orientation. Date will be announced.
Students whose undergraduate degree is from an institution where the language of instruction is not English must have already taken or be currently enrolled in the English Language Institute's ELI 994. The student must have a passing score of 4 on the Oral English Test (OET).
Students who have not previously been a GSI for the College of LSA will be required to attend the online CRLT GSI Teaching Orientation as an online program. GSIs who are new to teaching in ALC are required to attend the ALC New GSI Orientation at 10:00-11:30 a.m. on Friday, August 28. GSIs are expected to be on campus and available to work no later than Monday, August 31, 2026, the first day of classes.
Required qualifications include being a Japanese native speaker or a non-native speaker with Japanese Proficiency Test N1 level holder with advanced-high speaking proficiency, a serious career interest in language teaching, good computer operations skills, and good penmanship.
Desired qualifications include speaking standard Japanese with good pronunciation and intonation, an organized and reliable personality, punctuality, prioritizing GSI work as well as own study, being cooperative and flexible, and being an LSA student enrolled in a graduate program.
Students who apply to this posting will be considered for one of the following positions: up to three 25-50% GSI teaching or grading positions in ASIANLAN 125:
First-Year Japanese I, and up to two 25-50% GSI teaching or grading positions in ASIANLAN 225:
Second-Year Japanese I.
Course descriptions and additional course information for each course can be found on the LSA Course Guide:(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..
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