eBulletin: ASSEMBLING YOUR TEACHING DOSSIER

2010 Workshop SeriesSpring

* Assembling Your Teaching Dossier: Getting Started
Wednesday 5 May 2010, 10:00am-12:00pm
Pamela Gravestock, Associate Director, CTSI
Megan Burnett, Assistant Director, Teaching Assistants' Training Program
Location: Robarts Library, 4th Floor, Room 4049

This session will provide an overview of the content and structure of an effective teaching dossier, with an emphasis on how to align this document with divisional and institutional expectations. Session participants will review the distinctive qualities of a teaching dossier, and will develop a plan for assembling and strengthening their own dossiers. They will also be led through the first steps of composing a Statement of Teaching Philosophy.

At the end of this interactive session, participants will be able to address the following questions:
• What is distinctive about my approach to teaching?
• What have been my major accomplishments as a teacher?
• How can I effectively present my teaching skills and knowledge to a review committee?

* Assembling Your Teaching Dossier: Dossier Clinic
Tuesday 18 May 2010, 10:00am-12:00pm
Megan Burnett, Assistant Director, Teaching Assistants' Training Program
Emily Greenleaf, Faculty Liaison & Research Associate, CTSI
Location: Robarts Library, 4th Floor, Room 4049

NB: The primary mandate of the Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation's workshop series is to provide teaching support for current UofT instructors. While we normally welcome graduate students to most of our events, at times due to high demand or a particular workshop focus, we must restrict attendance to current UofT faculty members, CLTAs and sessional instructors. At present, this event is not open to graduate students or PPIT participants.

Building on the overview of teaching dossiers provided in the May 5th workshop, “Getting Started”, this session will give faculty members the chance to “put it all together”. Participants will have the hands-on opportunity to literally assemble their own dossiers and receive feedback on their Statements of Teaching Philosophy.

Working in small groups with input from CTSI facilitators, participants will choose some of the evidence to be included in their dossiers and will review drafts of the Statements of Teaching Philosophy begun in the workshop on May 5th. PLEASE NOTE: While it will be helpful to have attended the May 5th session, participation in that workshop is not necessary to enroll in the May 18th clinic.

Participants in this session are asked to come prepared with the following:
• a draft of a Statement of Teaching Philosophy (maximum length: 1 - 2 pages, single-spaced; minimum length: a short paragraph or a few bullet points; information on how to prepare a Statement of Teaching Philosophy can be found here) - PLEASE BRING 3 COPIES OF YOUR STATEMENT
• representative course syllabi from University of Toronto courses taught in the past (choosing which courses to highlight will be discussed in the May 5th workshop)
- include syllabi for new courses that have been developed, if possible
- include syllabus for a core course that was significantly redeveloped, if possible
• sample teaching materials from University of Toronto courses taught in the past (this may include any sample examinations, tests, quizzes, study handouts, explanatory handouts, visual aids, or assignments prepared for past courses)
• course evaluations

PLEASE NOTE: The teaching dossier clinic is both practical and highly interactive. To ensure that all clinic participants have the opportunity both to provide feedback to colleagues about their dossier materials and to work with their own documents, only registrants who arrive with their own draft materials, as described above, will be invited to participate in the dossier clinic. Please contact CTSI at ctsi.teaching@utoronto.ca if you have any questions about which materials to bring with you to the dossier clinic.