These are a variety of statements of "Teaching Philosophy" by college teachers...mostly in Sociology, although there are also links to non-sociology teachers. The first group are from teachers who responded to my invitation to submit their own statements, including my own. The second group, all urls, were found online by myself. Most of them go directly to the statement, but some go to a website where you can click on the appropriate link. Also, some are pdf files and some are Word documents you can either save or just open.
If you'd like to submit a statement of your own, just send it to me at socshop@yahoo.com and I'll put it here for you.
By way of introducing these, I'd like to begin with a short statement by Kathleen McKinney (Illinois State University) from her email sending me her own Teaching Philosophy. I believe it captures very well the purpose of having them and the purpose for putting some here.
I would love to see others' teaching philosophies! This can be very helpful and should lead to great discussion. It is always a work in progress. But, I hope others will post theirs too. We might also discuss why do one and their uses? Mine is part of my teaching portfolio. I often include it as an appendix to my syllabi for students. Doing one and redoing it now and then is a great formative, self-development task. They can be used when on the job market. You might be asked for one when up for an award, etc. etc.
The Teaching Portfolio
by Doug Wellman, Director
Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning
at North Carolina State University
STATEMENTS OF TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
Submitted by the Teacher
Dan Brook (Revised July 2002)
Statements found Online
Rex R. Campbell
My Philosophy of Graduate Education
Michelle Janning
pdf file
Michael S. Ofsowitz
----Homepage is here
Larry Pahl
----Reflections on My Teaching Philosophy Drawn from Actual Practice in My Various Teaching Contexts
Andreas Schneider
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