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Below is a collection of resources to assist instructors in assessing their own teaching, engaging in peer assessment, and writing their teaching philosophy statements.

1. General Resources

Below, you will find a variety of teaching philosophy statements, most sorted by the subject and others authored by winners of Teaching Excellence Awards.

• These may be useful as models, exemplars, sources for language for your own teaching philosophy, etc.  

• I encourage you to examine models from a variety of fields as each brings something unique to the presentations of a teaching philosophy.

A. Teaching Philosophy Statements by Award Winners

“Writing Your Teaching Philosophy” (web page)  from the Center from Education Innovation, University of Minnesota, outlines the process of writing a personal statement of your teaching philosophy.

A. Creating a Draft

Once "you've written down your values, attitudes, and beliefs about teaching and learning, ... organize those thoughts into a coherent form." 

“Writing Your Teaching Philosophy” (web page)  from the Center from Education Innovation, University of Minnesota, outlines the process of writing a personal statement of your teaching philosophy.

A. What Is a Teaching Philosophy?

"Your teaching philosophy is a self-reflective statement of your [values and] beliefs about teaching and learning."