Your teaching dossier's first/landing page must introduce you along with your profile picture or a catchy classroom image. The other SIX tabs must contain reflective accounts for each of the following sections, including evidence of excellence. It is essential to label your evidence and cross-reference it in the reflective note.
Teaching (including, where applicable, clinical teaching) Philosophy/Statement [Max. 750 words]:
State your teaching philosophy (teaching statement). Make reference to your teaching beliefs and practices, your professional values, your assessment approaches, quality assurance practices, the role of technology in your teaching (as applicable), and evaluation of your teaching effectiveness.
Evidence of Excellence for Teaching (including, if applicable, Clinical Teaching) [Max. 500 words]:
Address the following points in this section of your account
1. The role of your subject knowledge in relation to student learning.
2. The main ways in which you teach and/or support learners.
3. The activities, techniques, and technologies you use and why; how you came to use them, and why do you think they were successful in supporting student learning? Give reasons for your choice of activities and techniques and how they relate to developing the learners' understanding of the subject.
4. Which professional values are particularly relevant to your teaching and why?
5. How do you evaluate your teaching and its effect on the improvement of practice?
This must be supported by evidence/examples of recognition of your teaching effectiveness such as awards, invitations as keynote speaker, panel discussion member, media appearance; course leader, academic team leader; selected lesson/session plans (evidencing significant change in teaching)-a reflective note on them; reflective commentary on teaching innovation/ newly adopted teaching strategies.
Evidence of Excellence for Educational Leadership, including Mentorship [Max. 500 words]:
Summary of your contribution to achieving excellence in educational leadership, including mentorship
This must be supported by providing evidence/examples such as: mentorship activities; engagement with other QTL_net and other faculty/professional development activities including reflection of experience and impact on teaching (self and others); supporting colleagues in their professional development (supervision, publication, orientation, grant applications etc.); leading academic/teaching teams and learning with and from peers (e.g., teaching squares, reflective circles, COPs, partnerships).
Evidence of Excellence for Curriculum Development or Programme Design [Max. 500 words]:
Address the following in this part of your account
1. The main ways in which you design and plan programmes of study or curriculum.
2. The reasons for your choice of subject material; activities and techniques; and the particular learning technologies included in your plan.
3. How your choices facilitate your students’ learning in general and within their subject area.
4. Demonstration of your considerations of subject knowledge, quality assurance, and professional values in developing the curriculum.
This must be supported by the evidence/examples of course materials such as: course outlines, selected lesson/session plans (evidencing significant change in plan) and a reflective note on them, curriculum development or revisions and students’ feedback or need analysis.
Evidence of Excellence for Learner Assessment [Max. 500 words]:
Address the following points in this section of your account
1. The assessment approaches and strategies that you use with learners.
2. The reasons for your choice of particular approaches and methods.
3. How you employ assessment to facilitate learning of content and understanding of progress and development of learners.
4. The feedback strategies you use and why.
5. How assessment of your teaching practice helps to improve your understanding of self, practice, and learners.
This must be supported by the evidence/examples of evaluations such as: students’ evaluation, self-evaluation, and peer-review (colleagues and supervisors).
Evidence of Excellence for Scholarship [Max 500 words]
Address the following in your account:
1. Your main strategies for updating and developing your capability as a teacher/supporter of learning. Refer here to any activities you have undertaken to update yourself on aspects of teaching and learning, for example, staff development activities or conferences on learning and teaching or participation in projects to develop learning methods.
2. How you used the outcomes from the above CPD strategies to improve the student learning experience and your own working practice?
3. How do you ensure that your practice is evidence-informed i.e. using the outcomes from research, scholarship, and continuing professional development?
4. How you considered your subject discipline and professional values in your own professional development? This must be supported by evidence/examples of SoTL activities such as: research, publication, conferences, seminars, and professional development.
This must be supported by evidence/examples of SoTL activities such as: research, publication, conferences, seminars, and professional development.
3. Letters/Documents of support:
Dean/Chair of the department
Peers (two letters). Your peers may include a colleague you may have co-taught a course with, co-facilitated a professional development program with, co-planned a programme/course with etc.
A teaching expert external to AKU (She/He must be familiar with your teaching but is not currently a member of AKU)
