Reflective Teaching Statements

This archived teaching guide from Vanderbilt University’s Center for Teaching provides an overview of teaching statements, including their purposes, general guidelines, exercises to get started writing, and links to other articles and resources.

This handout from UVA’s CTE describes the components of Reflective Teaching Statements, provides some suggestions on how to structure them, and offers some prompts to jump-start your thinking.

This rubric describes five aspects of teaching that Reflective Teaching Statements ought to address. You can use this rubric to evaluate how well your teaching statement addresses these elements, and to guide your writing and revision process.

Review sample statements by author type (graduate student or faculty) and from various disciplines.

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) can be used as a feedback partner when writing a reflective teaching statement. This guide provides sample prompts to help you get started.