Sample Materials for TA Evaluation Spring 04

Spring 06Teaching Evaluations

All Experienced TAs must submit a teaching portfolio that includes the following:

• Statement of Teaching Philosophy
• Professional CV (for a teaching position)
• One Syllabus
• One Assignment
• An Explanation of the Assignment.

These printed materials must be submitted in a manila envelope by March 1st to Sheila Luna, Graduate Studies Program Coordinator. Your name and your teaching assignments for that year must be clearly printed on the outside of the envelope.

Statement of Teaching Philosophy: (Click to view samples) A teaching philosophy statement explains the values and theories which drive your teaching. It should be brief: 1-2 pages in length. As you prepare your statement, consider carefully the goals and objectives of the Writing Programs. You might also consider some of the following:

Statement of Teaching Philosophy: ( Click to view samples .) A teaching philosophy statement explains the values and theories that inform your teaching. It must be concise and clear: 1-2 pages in length, double-spaced. As you prepare your statement, consider carefully the goals and objectives of the ASU Writing Programs. You might also consider the following in constructing this statement:

How should/do college students learn to write?
What is the role of the teacher in student learning?
What pedagogical strategies do you use and why?
What theories inform your teaching of writing? Consider pedagogical theories and theories in rhetoric and composition.
What constitutes good teaching?

2. Professional CV (for a teaching position): ( Click to view samples ) The Committee for Experienced TA Professional Development (those doing this evaluation) is interested in your teaching expertise. Therefore, the CV you submit should foreground teaching-related material.

Name, office, phone, e-mail
Degrees earned and in progress
Teaching experience: courses taught and currently teaching, at ASU and elsewhere
Courses or workshops taken which influence your teaching
Teaching-related publications, presentations, or conferences attended
Employment or volunteer work related to teaching (i.e. tutoring, educational grant writing, substituting, interning, etc.)
Other experience or education that has directly impacted your teaching

3. One syllabus for an ASU Writing Programs course. If you are not teaching a course for the Writing Programs in the academic year, please submit a syllabus for one of the literature, linguistic, or creative writing courses you are teaching.

4. One essay assignment for the above course. Again, if you are not teaching a course for the Writing Programs in this academic year, please submit an assignment for the literature, linguistic, or creative writing syllabus you have included. Regardless of what you are teaching, this should be a developed, personalized assignment sheet. A Xeroxed copy, internet download, word-for-word transcription of a textbook assignment or reference to a page number in a textbook is insufficient.

5. A one-two page explanation of your assignment. In your explanation, please consider the following:

• How the assignment supports the core goals of the ASU Writing Programs, or the core goals for undergraduate program for which you teach (e.g. linguistics, literature, creative writing)

• The instructional activities you use to introduce the assignment (readings, in-class activities, key heuristic or homework activities)

• What makes the assignment effective

• Changes you would make to this assignment to improve its effectiveness and why