Honors Teaching Assistants (HTAs) support HONS 1000H seminars in the fall and spring semesters. HTAs are peer mentors for first-year Honors students, introducing them to curricular, research, scholarship, travel-study, and internship opportunities within the Morehead Honors College, the UGA campus, and the community.

HTAs are responsible for a variety of tasks, including supporting weekly seminar classes; creating active, engaging lesson plans for class; providing prompt feedback on student assignments; attending HONS 4000H practicum sessions to prepare for their classes; answering student questions; and serving as a source of support for their students.

HONS 4000H

The HONS 4000H course serves as the practicum seminar for Honors Teaching Assistants. The dean of the Morehead Honors College oversees the course, which provides an introduction to pedagogical strategies and serves as a forum in which HTAs can ask questions, share experiences, and develop sound pedagogical practices. The Honors First-Year Experience Program Coordinator is the primary contact for the HTAs, answering questions, addressing issues, and liaising with the dean and staff to assist HTAs and their students fully.

All HTAs are required to attend a fall orientation and register for HONS 4000H in the semester(s) in which they teach. Fall and spring courses are typically taught on Wednesdays from 4:35-5:30 p.m (new 2026 class hours).

Application

Applications for the 2026-27 HTA application cycle are now open! Applications are due January 26, 2026 at 11:59pm. Those applicants selected will typically interview beginning in early February, with final fall HTA selections usually made by mid-March for the following academic year.

Application Link

The application includes:

1. General information
2. The names and UGA MyID email addresses of two UGA faculty or staff members to serve as references. The persons listed will be contacted and asked to complete a short reference form. NOTE: One must be a UGA faculty member 
3. A one- or two-page resume
4. A short response detailing any direct teaching or tutoring experience you may have or any tangential experience you feel aligns with teaching or coordinating a classroom or a group of students.
5. A response to the following two essay prompts in one to two pages total, single-spaced (three to four paragraphs each):
   1. Please identify three traits of a successful HTA. How would you embody these in your classroom?
   2. Describe in detail one prior experience that will make you an outstanding instructor in the classroom. In this response, feel free to explain your own approach to teaching and working with new students.

Please note that we ask all narrative responses to the above application questions be written without the assistance of generative AI tools.

A smaller number of spring HTA positions are available, chosen out of the pool of fall HTAs. No spring-only HTA opportunities exist.