A handbook for teaching assistants (TAs), teaching fellows, and graduate student assistants at the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) is presented. After a brief history of the university and an overview of the school's organization, the teaching assistantship role is considered. The official Policy Statement for TAs is included, along with information on the appointment, benefits, reappointment, responsibilities, early termination, and the appeals procedure. The income tax status of TAs is also covered. Guidelines on academic integrity and the university's policy statement on sexual harassment are provided. Additional contents cover: teaching style, planning a course, lectures and discussions, workshops, science and language labs, classroom aids such as the chalkboard and audiovisuals, class discipline, advice for non-native English-speaking TAs, assigning paper topics and helping students to write successfully, developing quizzes and exams, the university's grading policy, responding to students' work, academic dishonesty, writing letters of recommendation, evaluating and improving teaching, and information on the university's academic and personal resources for the TA as an advisor. An annotated bibliography is appended. (SW)