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Online Instructional Resources
Documenting and Evaluating Teaching: Teaching Philosophy Statement
Introduction
General Resources
A statement of teaching philosophy documents a professor's beliefs, values,
and approaches to teaching. Writing this reflective statement helps a professor
articulate the philosophy and goals that underly his or her approach to the
classroom, which can then be shared with students, colleagues, and administrators.
The following links provide guidelines and examples for writing a teaching statement.
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Developing a Teaching Portfolio (University of Washington
Center for Instructional Development and Research)
Guidelines, suggestions, writing prompts, and tips for writing your teaching
statement, plus links to other useful sites, including one with sample philosophy
statements.
http://depts.washington.edu/cidrweb/resources/portfoliotools.html
Writing a Philosophy of Teaching Statement (Ohio State University)
Another site with guidelines and examples of philosophy statements.
http://ftad.osu.edu/portfolio/philosophy/Philosophy.html
"Statements of Teaching Philosophy" by Gail E. Goodyear
and Douglas Allchin (The Center for Effective Teaching and Learning at the U.
of Texas at El Paso).
Discussion of the roles, composition, and evaluation of teaching philosophy
statements.
http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=32483
Document Teaching/Teaching Portfolios (Boston University Center
for Excellence in Teaching)
Prompts for brainstorming a teaching philosophy statement.
http://www.bu.edu/cet/portfolios/philosophy.html
Engineering Teaching Portfolio Program (sponsored by the National
Science Foundation)
A group process for developing a teaching statement. Contains useful links to
strategies for writing your own statement and a sample teaching philosophy statement.
http://www.engr.washington.edu/caee/etpp-sessions.htm
"How to Write a Teaching Philosophy for Academic Employment"
(American Chemical Society)
Although this site is written for scientists, this article (in PDF format) provides
an in depth discussion of approaches to developing a teaching statement, setting
goals, and selecting practices for achieving these goals. It is liberally interspersed
with excerpts from teaching statements.
http://portal.acs.org:80/portal/fileFetch/C/CTP_005351/pdf/CTP_005351.pdf
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