Teaching is an important part of graduate student education at Yale. It is a part of the program, contributes to funding, and to professional development. Graduate students typically teach one semester per year (exceptions include students with external funding who might teach less, and students beyond their fifth year who may need to teach in both terms for funding reasons).
Generally, first-year students work as coaches for calculus classes, where they may run discussions, small group sessions, reviews, and other support sessions for undergraduates.
Second-year students often work as teaching assistants for intermediate level courses, such as linear algebra (Math 2220, 2250, 2260), real analysis (Math 2550, 2560), or discrete mathematics (Math 2440). Duties may include holding office hours, leading discussion sections, and grading assessments.
In the Spring of their second-year, graduate students attend the Lang teaching seminar, which is listed as Math 8270. In this seminar, experienced faculty help graduate students prepare for leading their own calculus sections the following year.
Students in their third-year or above typically teach a section of a coordinated calculus course (differential, integral or multivariable), supported by a course director and a team of instructors teaching the course.
Graduate students who have already taught a section of calculus are invited to join the Math teaching certificate program. All graduate students (regardless of prior teaching experience) are welcome in the math Fall teaching lunch series, described on the certificate website.