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A reflective teaching statement is a short narrative that describes your beliefs, goals, and practices regarding teaching and learning in your field. This collection offers guidelines for writing teaching statements, examples from several disciplines, and a rubric to assess your teaching statement.

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is the systematic study of teaching and learning made public, such as through publication in an education research journal or at a conference. This collection will introduce you to this type of classroom-based research.

Developing a strong research question is a critical first step in conducting a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project. This collection offers guiding frameworks and practical strategies to help you move from a general topic of interest to a well-defined SoTL inquiry.

Whether you're new to SoTL co-authorship or refining your approach, this collection offers resources to help you navigate collaborative writing. You'll find resources on authorship expectations, productive workflows, and models for structuring your work together.

Teaching with others can enrich student learning and instructor joy, but the challenge of aligning vision and methods may surprise new co-teachers. Use the resources here to support smoother collaborative teaching. Note: we use 'co-teaching' to mean shared teaching responsibilities.

Navigating ethical considerations and institutional review board (IRB) processes is a critical part of SoTL. This collection offers practical guidance and examples on what qualifies as research, how to prepare an IRB application, and how to uphold ethical standards in classroom-based research.

A teaching portfolio is a curated set of materials paired with reflective statements that represents your teaching practices and your development as a teacher. This collection advises you on how to select materials and how to organize them into a compelling narrative about your teaching.

Conducting a literature review is essential to any SoTL project, but it can be challenging to know where to begin. This collection offers practical tools and strategies to help you search for, organize, and engage with SoTL literature—whether you're using traditional methods, AI tools, or both.

Demonstrating care, empowering TAs, and cultivating opportunities for peer connections are just a few ways that relationships show up in your large-enrollment courses. Use these resources for a clearer view on how to make the most of human interactions in large courses.

This collection contains resources for educational developers interested in supporting faculty engagement in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).

The Making Teaching Matter for Civic and Intellectual Life project started in 2024 at UVA's School of Education and Human Development. This collection features essays from students involved in the project with advice for instructors on cultivating civic engagement, ethical decision-making, and more.

First time teaching your own course? In this collection, you'll find foundational resources to begin your teaching journey. Each resource is from my own bookshelf that I use over and over again!

Gathering evidence in SoTL requires careful choices about what kinds of student learning to make visible. This collection offers practical resources—from survey design tips to a compendium of validated scales—to help you plan for and collect the right data to answer your SoTL research questions.

Research shows that text-to-speech (TTS) is a prominent use of generative AI by students with disabilities. This collection features ideas for using AI to support students with disabilities in a variety of educational contexts and points to two AI-powered TTS tools.

Designing a SoTL study requires thoughtful decisions about study design, methods, and disciplinary approaches to inquiry. This collection introduces a range of accessible resources to help you choose a study design that aligns with your research questions and scholarly goals.

In pedagogical partnerships, students and teachers contribute collaboratively “to curricular or pedagogical conceptualization, decision-making, implementation, investigation, or analysis” (Cook-Sather et al., 2014). This collection explores the question: Why do pedagogical partnerships matter?