Teaching Strategies: Teaching Philosophies from U-M
"U-M graduate students and postdocs created these examples as part of the Rackham-CRLT Preparing Future Faculty Seminar. They are published here with the authors' consent. These examples represent the many different approaches to writing a teaching philosophy. According to CRLT's rubric for evaluating teaching philosophy statements, we consider each example to be "excellent" in at least one rubric category (e.g., goals for student learning, teaching methods, assessment of student learning, teaching inclusively, and structure, rhetoric and language)."
CRLT Occasional Paper No. 23: Writing a Statement of Teaching Philosophy for the Academic Job Search
Engineering
Anonymous (Biomedical Engineering)
Anonymous (Industrial and Operations Engineering)
Anonymous (Industrial and Operations Engineering)
Anonymous (Materials Science and Engineering)
Anonymous (Mechanical Engineering)
Ruba Borno (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Neal Patwari (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Diane Peters (Mechanical Engineering)
Alireza Tabatabaeenejad (Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science)
Steven Zalek (Naval
Architecture and Marine Engineering)
Humanities
Anonymous (American
Culture)
Anonymous (American
Studies)
Anonymous (Asian
Languages and Cultures)
Anonymous (Ethnomusicology)
Anonymous (Communication Studies)
Anonymous, (Theatre Studies)
Laura Ambrose, (English
Language and Literature)
Tyler Cornelius, (American Culture)
Jesse Johnston,
(Musicology)
Olivier Delers (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Colin Roust (Musicology)
Daniel Mrozowski (English Language and Literature)
Corine Tachtiris (Comparative Literature)
Urmila Venkatesh (Fine Art)
Natural and Physical Sciences
Anonymous (Geological Sciences)
Anonymous (Microbiology and Immunology)
Rachel
Adams, (Cellular and Molecular Biology)
Eileen Rillamas-Sun (Epidemiology)
Corrinne
Richards, (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Lesley
Sefcik (Natural Resources and Environment)
Craig
Spencer, (Mathematics)
Lindsey
Waddell, (Geological Sciences)
Andrea
Walther, (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Social Sciences
Anonymous (Natural
Resources and Environment)
Anonymous (Natural
Resources and Environment)
Anonymous (Psychology)
Anonymous (Psychology)
Anonymous (Psychology)
Anonymous (Social Work/Political Science)
Carrie Beyer (Education)
Debra Burns Melican, (Communications)
Yolanda Covington-Ward, (Anthropology)
Katherine Fiori (Psychology)
Tiffany Joseph (Sociology)
Shanna Kirschner, (Political Science)
Jonathan Lanning (Economics)
Christopher Odato (Linguistics)
Carla Pfeffer, (Women’s Studies and Sociology)
Amy Trahan (Psychology)