The season for academic job hunting is upon us. It’s a time when graduate students sweat the details of their applications. It’s also a time when they all become philosophers—well, philosophers of ...

The Philosophy of Education Statement is an important piece in your educator portfolio. It may be requested by hiring personnel at schools to be included with a cover letter and resume. Your teaching ...

Teaching is a major component of almost all faculty positions. Surprisingly, then, even an almost complete lack of experience and training–in teaching and student learning–will probably not prove to ...

This info session discusses how to construct a teaching philosophy statement, which is the grounding element for the entire teaching dossier. The session will guide participants through key ...

Most teaching statements are written by people who—let’s be honest—don’t really know that much about teaching. Usually the writers are first-time job seekers with, at best, a year or two as a graduate ...

It was gratifying to read Paul Hanstedt’s January 9 guest blog post in IHE. He succinctly summarizes some of the most important tenets of writing instruction and learning to write: The problem isn’t ...

In Robert Plath’s classrooms, students do not write with a pen, pencil or keyboard; they write with an ice pick. It is a riff ...

Teaching Writing is designed for K-12 teachers, paraprofessionals, instructional coaches, and other school-based educators. Building on the research of Professor Emerita Maria Brisk, the workshop ...

Menu Distinguishing Between the Conceptual Versus the Empirical Distinguishing Between Descriptive Versus Normative Statements Thought Experiments Annotated Sample of Writing from Philosophy A ...