A handbook for University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) teaching assistants (TAs) is presented that includes information about university policy concerning TAs and their jobs. Contents cover: duties of TAs, teaching associates, and teaching fellows; appointment, reappointment, and duration of employment; salary; benefits; conduct, discipline, and grievances; the TA and the Graduate Council and the Graduate Division; the TA and the department; the TA and the Office of Instructional Development; the TA and instructional responsibilities; and the TA and teaching. Three major roles of the TA are considered: conducting one section of a course under faculty supervision, conducting discussion sections of a large lecture course, and assisting in laboratory sections of lecture courses. TAs as informal advisers and counselors are also addressed. Specific topics include: complaints against TAs, termination and campus appeal procedure, Graduate Students Association, the graduate adviser, videotaping services, English as a Second Language for TAs, and instructional media services. Information on TA mini-grants for instructional improvement for 1987-1988 is provided, along with an annotated bibliography of books and instructional media. (SW)