1. Your Teaching Narrative
Professional Development Workshop FAST FELLOWS Michigan State University
Melissa McDaniels Assistant Dean, The Graduate School
Next Several Days, add other names

2.
Documentation

3. By the end of today …
Describe the uses and importance of a teaching narrative.
Identify formats and audiences for a teaching narrative.
Identify possible aspects of your teaching to discuss in your teaching narrative
Beliefs (JC)
Accomplishments
Give and provide feedback on teaching narratives

4. The rapidly changing environment of postsecondary education, combined with the increasing complexity of faculty work, makes it imperative that you are able to efficiently and clearly articulate your professional accomplishments and contributions.
The era of describing activities and uncritically handing in Evidence of your faculty work are over.

5. You will need to effectively and efficiently talk about the nature of your academic work across your career.

6. It is important to have a curated space – in this case a ‘base text’ - from which you can draw as you need to promote different aspects of your work as a teacher-scholar

7. Teaching Narrative: Uses

8. Teaching Narrative: Uses
Statement of teaching interests in job application
Centerpiece of teaching award application
Content for a pedagogy talk or grant proposal
Annual review or RPT process
Self-reflection
Model for others

9. Types of Teaching to Discuss in NarrativeMU
Research
Interdisciplinary
Land grant
UMKC
Community engagement
Urban
Student success & access
MST
Experiential learning
UMSL

10. Types of Teaching to Discuss in Narrative
Face-to-face classroom
Laboratory (‘bench’ or field)
Synchronous, asynchronous, or hybrid online
Research mentoring
Clinical teaching (nursing, medicine, law, clergy, other)
Athletic or musical instruction
Many other types MU
Research
Interdisciplinary
Land grant
UMKC
Community engagement
Urban
Student success & access
MST
Experiential learning
UMSL

11. Mishra & Koehler (2006)

12. Narrative Writing vs. Class Planning
Identify the Message
Identify Learning Outcomes
Determine Acceptable Evidence
Identify “Teaching Moments”
Plan Learning Experiences
Write Narrative
Are the components ALIGNED?
Are the components ALIGNED ?
Did you clearly communicate your contributions in teaching?
Did the students achieve desired learning outcomes?

13. Identify “Teaching Moments”
audience
audience
Identify the Message
Identify “Teaching Moments”
Write Narrative
audience
audience

14. Journal Club – Preparing to Write

15. PREPARATION: Download Your Teaching Experience
Tool: Preparing to Communicate Your Teaching Philosophy
You need to be able to rely upon all aspects of your teaching experience to develop ideas for your teaching narrative. Tools like this will help you remember different aspects of your teaching you might discount or forget. You want all to draw on all of your teaching history and knowledge when you generate content for your narrative.

16. PREPARATION: Download Your Teaching Experience
Contexts
Students
Teaching Practice
Teaching Knowledge
Beliefs about Teaching
Please take 5 minutes to review the tool and complete at least Section 1 (contexts of teaching experience).
“Data” for Teaching Component

17. Narrative will showcase:
Your beliefs about teaching
Your accomplishments in teaching

18. Narrative will showcase:
Your beliefs about teaching
Your accomplishments in teaching

19. GENERATE PIECES OF NARRATIVE: Beliefs About Teaching
Describe the moment
How did you respond (or not respond)?
If you didn’t respond as you had hoped, what might you do next time?
What beliefs about teaching emerge from these stories?

20. Other Questions What is the role of the student?
What is the role of the teacher?
Why do I teach the way I do?
What does learning look like when it happens in my classroom?
What is my approach to assessment?

21. Narrative will showcase:
Your beliefs about teaching
Your accomplishments in teaching

22. GENERATE PIECES OF NARRATIVE: Accomplishments in Teaching
Curricular innovations
Reflection on feedback you received about teaching
Leadership in teaching
Scholarship of teaching activity
Other

23. GENERATE PIECES OF NARRATIVE: Articulate Accomplishments
Write a series of strong statements asserting your core accomplishments (deductive approach)
Utilize action verbs as you would in writing learning objectives for your students
Consider Evidence to support your assertion

24. GENERATE PIECES OF NARRATIVE: Articulate Accomplishments
Think about your approach to writing concrete and measurable learning objectives for students.
Action verbs (Blooms Taxonomy)

25. ONGOING CONVERSATION & RESOURCES @insideteaching (Twitter)
Thank You!
ONGOING CONVERSATION & (Twitter)