How to Improve Your Teaching-Philosophy Statement — Transcript

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1. 0:01[Music]
2. 0:07hi I'm Fernanda Zamudio Suarez breaking
3. 0:10news editor here at the Chronicle of
4. 0:12Higher Education and today I'm going to
5. 0:14give you six tips to help you write a
6. 0:17teaching philosophy okay
7. 0:19it's job search time you've sent out
8. 0:22your CV you've lined up all of your
9. 0:24letters of recommendation but you still
10. 0:27have to write a teaching philosophy
11. 0:29I know it's daunting but don't worry
12. 0:32yours will be good now let's get started
13. 0:34tip 1 do a little research know a little
14. 0:38bit about every different institution
15. 0:40that you're applying to because you'll
16. 0:41probably have to ride many different
17. 0:43teaching statements make sure to do
18. 0:45research on every institution and its
19. 0:48teaching culture
20. 0:49tip 2 begin at the end what do you want
21. 0:53your students to leave your course with
22. 0:55what are your eating objectives
23. 0:57tip 3 don't make empty statements be
24. 1:01specific
25. 1:02lots of teaching statements start with
26. 1:04sweeping philosophical declarations the
27. 1:07good ones anchor the general and
28. 1:09something concrete like an example that
29. 1:11you can visualize tip 4 who influenced
30. 1:15you explain where you got your idea
31. 1:17about pedagogy and why
32. 1:24tip five
33. 1:25keep your statements short and
34. 1:27well-written be yourself just don't
35. 1:30sound like a know-it-all tip six it's
36. 1:33about the students stupid if you're
37. 1:36going to mention technology or teaching
38. 1:39innovations make sure that you talk
39. 1:41about how the students reacted now
40. 1:45let's present teachers philosophy for
41. 1:49more advice on the academic workplace
42. 1:51check out the links below