Writing Effective Teaching Statements for the Academic Job Market: Getting Started
May 8, 2025
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location
Teaching Excellence Building (TEB), Room 201
Address
924 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL, Select
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Drafting a Teaching Statement can be a challenging process, particularly for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who may have limited teaching experience.
In this workshop, participants will learn about the characteristics of successful teaching statements and engage in the Generative Knowledge Interview process, which uses key moments as learners and teachers to help frame the value of teaching in their teaching statements.
This is a highly interactive workshop. Writing and discussing with peers is expected of all participants.
Participants will leave the workshop with a deeper understanding of the conventions of strong teaching statements and generated content for a teaching statement draft.
The workshop is open to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from all departments and disciplines, at all stages of drafting their teaching statements.
Please complete the pre-work assignments prior to the start of the workshop. You will receive the pre-work assignment and workshop meeting link with your registration confirmation email.
Because there is pre-work assigned for this workshop, registration will close 30 minutes before the start of the workshop.
EVENT FORMAT: This workshop will be held on-campus, in-person in room 201a in the Teaching Excellence Building (TEB) located on 924 S. Morgan Street.
EVENT LEAD: Lauren Woods, lmwoods@uic.edu
EVENT CO-FACILITATOR: Emily Potratz, epotra2@uic.edu
Inclusion and Accessibility Information: CATE is committed to making events accessible. CATE’s in-person events typically involve a combination of presentation and discussion-based activities. We welcome ASL interpreters, note-takers, and accompanying assistants to in-person CATE events. The TEB is wheelchair accessible with an elevator to the second floor space. The TEB space is equipped with fixed-height tables that are moveable and can be reconfigured. There are single-occupancy, all-gender, accessible bathrooms on the second and basement levels of TEB. If you have any accessibility questions, requests, or to coordinate accommodations, please contact the CATE team at teaching@uic.edu.
Date posted
Aug 5, 2024
Date updated
Apr 11, 2025