Teaching Philosophy Statements

16: A ResearchBased Rubric for Developing Statements of Teaching Philosophy

Despite itsubiquity asthewaythat instructors represent their views on teaching andlearning, the statement of teachingphilosophy can be afrustrating document to write and theresults are often uneven. This chapter describes a rubric created at the University ofMichigan's Center forResearch onLearning andTeaching to help faculty andgraduate students craft teaching statements. We describe theresear...

Teaching philosophies reconsidered:A conceptual model for the development and evaluation of teaching philosophy statements

Increasingly, the requirements of applicants to academic faculty positions, promotion and tenure procedures, nominations for teaching awards, or other application processes for innovative teaching grants worldwide include a teaching portfolio or dossier or a statement of teaching philosophy. Current literature provides a spectrum of approaches to constructing a teaching philosophy statement. Wh...

Research and Teaching Statements

Legal compliance in software systems is one of the most important problems in the field of software engineering. Laws, regulations, and organizational policies describe societal values that impose serious challenges and requirements to software engineers building systems. My dissertation examines how software engineers can ensure software requirements comply with relevant laws, regulations, and...

Teaching Philosophy

Teaching Philosophy

When I was actively taking classes as an undergraduate, one of my biggest concerns was that project courses typically lacked a fundamentally challenging problem; the challenge was typically in learning the details of tools used to solve some problem with an obvious solution, but not in finding a unique solution to the problem itself. My personal approach attempts to remedy this deficiency, sinc...