Decoding Teaching Statements

This workshop is intended for early career and pre-tenured faculty, including those faculty composing teaching statements for fourth-year review and their OSU dossiers.* The session briefly reviews the key elements of successful statements and then convenes participants into small working groups to describe, “decode,” and analyze sample teaching statements. The session closes with 30-minute guided writing and small group consultation breakout sessions.

*Priority registration is available to individuals attending the February 2, 2021, “Documenting Teaching” workshop. A recording of the first session and all session materials will be distributed to registrants in advance of this second session. Although this session is open to the OSU community, it will focus on statements written as part of the promotion and tenure process at Ohio State. 

Facilitators:
Kay Halasek, PhD, Director, Drake Institute
Melinda Rhodes-DiSalvo, PhD, Associate Director, Drake Institute

After this workshop, participants should be able to

• Describe the key elements of a strong teaching statement
• Identify those same elements by “decoding” and analyzing sample teaching statements
• Assess the effectiveness of sample statements relative to their key elements
• Translate their decoding and analysis into application as they draft their own teaching statements

You may register here.

You will receive Zoom link 24 hours prior to the start of the session.

If you have registered for this event, or are on the waitlist and require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate, please contact drakeinstitute@osu.edu. Requests should be made at least two weeks prior to the event, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

All members of the university community are welcome in Drake Institute activities, programs, services, and employment —regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, HIV/AIDS status, military status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other bases under the law.

Institute for Teaching and Learning programming is offered in accordance with university guidelines associated with in-person and remote activities. The Institute will inform registrants of delivery modifications should those guidelines change.