Open to: PhD students beyond prelims
Credit: 1, credit/no credit
Instructor: Hugh Crumley
Offered: Fall and spring. Instructor consent required.
Prerequisites: Previous training and/or experience in college teaching.
This course supports early-career academics in documenting and communicating their training and experience in college teaching. Students will develop a teaching statement, CV, and online teaching portfolio, while applying design principles that make these materials effective and accessible. Class activities emphasize peer critique, reflective practice, and evidence-based approaches to college teaching. While the primary focus is on preparing materials for U.S. academic job searches, the course also introduces the Professional Standards Framework (PSF 2023), enabling students to adapt their work if they later pursue international recognition.
Course Objectives
- Draft and refine a teaching statement that communicates your values, experience, and approach to college teaching.
- Assemble a professional teaching portfolio that integrates a teaching statement, CV, and evidence of teaching effectiveness in an accessible online format.
- Apply core design principles to teaching documents and portfolios to improve clarity, readability, and professional presentation.
- Provide and incorporate constructive peer feedback to strengthen teaching materials and reflective practice.
The portfolio developed in this course can be used to satisfy the online teaching portfolio requirement in the Certificate in College Teaching program.
To Enroll
Students in the Certificate in College Teaching program are given priority for this class. Each term, an online form is opened for students to express interest in this and other college teaching courses being offered in the following term, and seats in the courses are distributed based on need and the appropriate fit of the student (year of study, teaching experience, etc.) The online form is typically opened in October (for spring classes) and in April (for fall classes.) Watch for CCT Announcements emails for these links.
Sample Teaching Portfolios by Past GS760 Students
Biochemistry
Karly Forker (F 25)
Di (Lydia) Li (F 23)
Nichole Orench-Rivera (F 17)
Biology
Hannah P. Kania (F 25)
Katherine Henson (F 24)
Parsa Zareiesfandabadi (F 24)
Gongyuan Cao (S 24)
Alice Carter (S 20)
Calla Telzrow (S 20)
Songhui Zhao (F 19)
Jamie Wagner (F 18)
Jenn Coughlan (F 17)
Kate Thomas (S17)
Laura Bagge (S 16)
Biomedical Engineering
Pablo Cordero Alvarado (F25)
Meghan Reynolds (F 24)
Daniel Puleri (F 19)
Lisa Cervia (S 17)
Katheryn Rothenberg (S 16)
Cristina Fernandez (F 13)
Business Administration
Carman Fowler (S 23)
Yue Zhang (F 14)
Cell Biology
Liseth Orosco Barrionuevo (F 25)
Taylor Hinnant (F 22)
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Daniel E. Guyumus (F 25)
Kaya Fericy (S 24)
Boyang Zhang (F 23)
Tyler Waterman (F 22)
Joana Sipe (F 20)
Yueqian Cao (F 20)
Jake Ulrich (S 20)
Imari Walker Karega (F 19)
Nicholas Rogers (F 19)
Classical Studies
Mina Moon-Black (F 25)
Michael Freeman (S 22)
Cognitive Neuroscience
Matthew Bachman (F 20)
Eva Gjorgieva (F 20)
Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
Jameson Blount (F 24)
Jessica Leete (F 19)
Computational Media, Arts and Cultures
Evan Donahue (F 18)
Computer Science
Lesia Semenova (S 20)
Brittany Fasy (S 08)
Cultural Anthropology
Alexis Ligon Holloway (F 23)
Earth & Ocean Sciences
Margaret Zimmer (S 17)
Kendra Kaiser (F 16)
Ecology
Halina Malinowski (F 25)
Abi Human (S 25)
Camille Desisto (F 24)
Emily Ury (S 20)
Katie Grogan (S 13)
Economics
Peter Shum (F 24)
Ian Lee (F 22)
Eugene Tan (F 17)
Margaux Luflade (S 16)
Christopher Roark (F 15)
Rosen Valchev (S14)
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Yujie Zhang (F 24)
Adriana Stohn (F 23)
Greg Hernandez (F 23)
Craig Laboda (S 16)
Chris Tralie (F 15)
English
Olivia Joëlle DePue (S 25)
Victor Jeong (S 24)
Effie Harrington (F 23)
Hunter Augeri (F 22)
Michael McGurk (S 20)
Rebecca Evans (S 14)
Environment
Ankita Gupta (S 25)
Edgar Virgüez (F 19)
Jessica Brandt (F 17)
Megan Fork (F 16)
Daniela Miteva (F 12)
Environmental Policy
Dylan Munson (S 25)
Zachary Brecheisen (F 17)
Evolutionary Anthropology
Caroline L. Shearer (F 25)
Katherine McVay (F 25)
Tauras Vilgalys (F 18)
Experimental & Documentary Arts
Germán López Tirado (F 24)
Hareth Yousef (F 23)
Juan Velasquez (S 23)
Max Schulte (S 23)
Maddie Stambler (S 23)
Madison Cavalchire (S 23)
Mingyong Cheng (S 21)
Archer Boyette (F 20)
Lauren Henschel (F 19)
Laurenn McCubbin (S 13)
Wolfgang Hastert (S 13)
Genetics & Genomics
Kara Stark (S 25)
Cora Bright (S 23)
Rachel Hoffman (S 21)
Sarah Cunningham (F 20)
Emily McLean (F 16)
Germanic Languages & Literature
Sandra Niethardt (F 14)
History
Meghan Woolley (S 20)
Anderson Hagler (S 18)
Immunology
Kendra Smyth (F 15)
Literature
Annu Dahiya (F 18)
Marine Science & Conservation
Véronique Koch (S 25)
Dana Wright (S 21)
Jillian Wisse (S 21)
Dana Baker (S 17)
Mathematics
Ruby Kim (F 20)
Chen An (S 20)
Sarah Ritchey (S 18)
Michael Casey (S 16)
Henri Roesch (F 15)
Phillip Andreae (S 15)
Ben Gaines (S 14)
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Morgan Heckman (F 24)
Luisa Serafim (S 23)
Heer Majithia (F 22)
Michael Lee (F 19)
Medical Physics
Xinyi Li (S 21)
Justin Solomon (S 15)
You Zhang (S14)
Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD)
Jane Blackmer (F 25)
Lindsey Chew (S 24)
Molecular Genetics & Microbiology (MGM)
Aruna Menon (F 25)
Min Jin Lee (F 23)
Michael McFadden (S 20)
Hannah Brown (F 18)
Hannah McMIllan (F 18)
Kaila Pianalto (S 17)
Music
Ethan Foote (F 25)
Huijuan Ling (F 22)
Devon Carter (F 22)
James Budinich (S 22)
Johathan Henderson (S 21)
Dayton Kinney (F 19)
Meredith Graham (F 19)
Scott Lee (F 17)
Nursing
Jewel Scott (S 20)
Ashlee Vance (S 18)
Neurobiology
Aaron Halvorsen (F 24)
Federica Mosti (S 24)
Pathology
Olivia K. Fay (S 25)
Steven Shen (S 21)
Philosophy
Dylan Brown (F 25)
Nina Van Rooy (S 25)
Yuan Dong (F 24)
Adrienne Duke (S 24)
Michael Veldman (F 22)
Angela Bischof (S 20)
Ewan Kingston (S 18)
Physics
Baran Bodur (F 22)
Ryan Kozlowski (F 19)
Ron Malone (S 18)
Political Science
Paweł Charasz (S 21)
Alexandra Oprea (F 16)
Psychology & Neuroscience
Yvonne A. Ochieng (F 25)
Julia Leeman (F 25)
Lucas Bellaiche (S 23)
Anna Smith (S 23)
Audrey Liu (F 22)
Yuxi Candice Wang (F 22)
Erik Juarez (S 21)
Madeline Farber (S 20)
Paula Yust (F 19)
Sara Maurer (S 18)
Christina Bejjani (S 18)
Stephanie Santistevan-Swett (S 17)
Kate MacDuffie (F 14)
Public Policy
Sarah Petry (S 22)
Bobby Harris (S 20)
Emily Pakhtigian (F 18)
Nivedhitha Subramanian (F 18)
Emma Zang (S 18)
John Holbein (F 14)
Religion
Shreya Maini (S 25)
Mary Dance Berry (S 23)
Claire Rostov (F 22)
Elizabeth Schrader (S 22)
Grazina Bielousova (F 20)
Zexi Jesse Sun (F 20)
Brenna Keegan (F 17)
Wen Reagan (S 12)
Romance Studies
Cristina Carnemolla (F 22)
Sociology
Molly Copeland (F 17)
Kimberly Rogers (F 11)
Statistical Science
Rick Presman (S 23)
Raphaël Morsomme (F 22)
Emily Gentles (S 22)
Ed Tam (S 22)
Jiurui Tang (S 21)
Fan Bu (F 20)