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The evidence you choose, and the way you showcase that evidence, matters. The strongest applications we see are…

1. Current, meaning that most of the teaching evidence is recent and that it demonstrates  knowledge of up-to-date pedagogical research. You may include teaching artifacts that are a little older or that originated in previous teaching experiences at other institutions. But keep in mind that recent evidence is more compelling than older evidence.
2. Original, meaning that the teaching evidence you include demonstrates use of creative or innovative pedagogical methods in addition to more traditional ones. The particular combination of classroom approaches you choose to highlight should be unique to you.
3. Concise, meaning that your application communicates a lot of information about your teaching in a little package. Less is more. Resist the temptation to include dozens of pages of material, and focus on a few strong pieces of evidence that showcase your teaching most vibrantly.
4. Varied, meaning that, where possible, you include evidence of different kinds. Strong applications typically include a combination of original teaching materials and a sense of both students’ and colleagues’ perceptions of the applicant’s teaching.
5. Easy to read, meaning that you provide notes or signposts to help judges navigate and interpret included materials. For example, you might consider including a table of contents for particularly lengthy applications or writing a few sentences before each piece of evidence that signals what the artifact is and/or how it was used in your teaching.

Typically, this means one document: one syllabus, one assignment sheet, one letter of support, one observation report, etc. Other types of evidence we leave at the discretion of the applicant. If, for example, you’d like to include a set of several photographs from a course or student evaluations from multiple classes as one “piece” of evidence, that’s fine.

Just keep in mind that the best applications are concise, and that if you include more than three pieces of evidence in your application, judges will consider only the first three.

Because every applicant’s student evaluations will look different, we leave this up to you. But we encourage you to think about how to convey the information in your student evaluations most efficiently.

Specifically, we ask that you limit the student evaluations section of your application to 10 pages or less. Our judges have a lot to read and won’t be able to process dozens of pages of student rankings and comments. They’re more likely to appreciate a concise snapshot of student views on your teaching.

Feel free to include some summaries of, or representative selections from, evaluations in lieu of entire evals. If you have multiple university-administered evaluations you’d like to share, consider including a summary of results from each course and/or selected student comments.