A handbook for foreign teaching assistants (TAs) is presented by foreign graduate students with teaching experience and other educators who have worked closely with them. Language skills, teaching strategies, cultural issues, resources, and the environment at the University of California, Berkeley, are addressed in 16 articles. Article titles and authors are: "English and the Foreign-Born TA" (Jacqueline Hoeppner-Freitas); "Overcoming the Language Barrier" (Jia-Yush Yen); "Listening Comprehension and Accent Problems" (Dong-Gyom Kim); "How Do Americans Speak?" (Bonnie Burns); "Getting To Know the System" (Stephen Small); "How To Teach without Talking" (Eyal Naveh); "Leading Sections in the Sciences" (Rajesh Gupta); "Grading Humanities Students" (E. Naveh); "Grading Options in the Sciences" (Prabhakar Raghavan); "Student Evaluations of TAs (Ron Robin); "Foreign TAs from the Undergraduate Perspective" (David Pickell); "A Woman, A Foreigner, a TA" (Jyoti Sanghera); "Advantages of Foreign TAs" (John Quansheng Zhao); "Oral Communication Resources" (Barbara Gross Davis); "Peer Counseling and Support for Foreign TAs" (Ron Robin, Alan Cox); and "Advisers to Foreign Students and Scholars Office (AFSSO)" (Ted Goode). (SW)