How to write a great teaching statement for a faculty job application

A teaching statement is a part of your application for a faculty position. While at research-intensive universities this will generally be less important than your research accomplishments, this is still document is still important. This video explains how you can write a compelling teaching statement!
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[@mrillig]

This video deals with the teaching statement; if you're also interested in the research statement, I have a video for this as well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eamxpXqaqc1pptE

[@fatmaguler2638]

Awesome advice! I will apply my teaching statement. Until you mentioned diversity, I hadn't realized that I taught migrant students from Syria. Sometimes we forget the efforts that we put in and the experience since it is considered like a default. Thank you very much Prof. Rilling!

[@mrillig]

Thanks, this is great! Good luck with your job applications.

[@aminbagheri1409]

Your videos are absolutely brilliant. I watched the teaching and research statements videos and learned so much from you. Many Thanks.

[@mrillig]

Thank you so much!!!

[@ako524mobilegaming7]

I will start my initial screening interview for a faculty job tomorrow. This is my first application and also the first interview. Cheat sheets are stuck everywhere around my screen.😂

[@mrillig]

Good luck!!

[@thetokyodrafts813]

Thank you so much!!

[@mrillig]

Thanks!!

[@BlackSakura33]

Hello professor, do you have any teaching tips for newly hired faculties?

[@mrillig]

Thanks, I will think about this as a topic for a future video.

[@BlackSakura33]

Thank you 😊

[@mitey136]

Need suggestion on submitting an online application for teaching position at university. I filled this information as part of application questionnaire but did not find any information to upload teaching statement document. Online application only had option to upload cv, cover letter, list of publications and supporting documents. Please advice.

[@mrillig]

Can't help with individual applications, sorry. But if this is a teaching position, not research, I would probably put the gist of the teaching statement in the cover letter.

[@petarjovanovic1481]

In a year from now, I am leaving academia and my postdoc position by any means necessary, even to scrub toilettes, because teaching is not what universities focus on nowadays. As a result, universities are full of puffed-up, selfish, ego driver people which have poisoned many young minds and deterred them from pursuing their passion for teaching and bringing up new classes of students, which is what happened to me.

[@mrillig]

Thanks for writing and sharing your thoughts. I am sorry you have such a negative impression; and I also believe you're not wrong. Perhaps universities need people like you that bring a passion for teaching as well as research. I know other people like this. My focus is research, but I also get a major kick of motivation from teaching. And: there are focused academic institutions in many countries.