Write a teaching statement with real classroom evidence
Turns my teaching experience into a specific, evidence-backed teaching philosophy statement for academic applications.
The prompt
Help me write a teaching statement for an academic job or teaching award.
Position and institution type: [e.g. "liberal arts college", "R1", "community college"]
Length limit: [e.g. "1-2 pages"]
Teaching experience: [courses, role (TA, instructor of record), class sizes, levels, formats]
Methods I actually use: [e.g. "active learning", "peer instruction", "project-based", "flipped"]
Specific moments or examples: [a lesson that worked, a student who struggled, something I changed]
Evidence of effectiveness: [evaluations, quotes, learning outcomes, peer observations]
Inclusive teaching practices: [DETAILS]
Courses I could teach there: [LIST]
Rules:
- Show, don't tell: every belief about teaching is followed by a concrete example of what I do in class and how I know it works.
- Include at least one honest example of something that did not work and how I adapted.
- Connect goals to how I assess learning.
- Address inclusion through specific practices, not general statements.
- Avoid cliches ("I am passionate about teaching", "students are not empty vessels").
Return the statement within the limit, then a list of claims that need supporting evidence, marked [ADD EVIDENCE]. Do not invent evaluation scores or student quotes.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- e.g. "liberal arts college", "R1", "community college"
- e.g. "1-2 pages"
- evaluations, quotes, learning outcomes, peer observations
- DETAILS
- LIST
- ADD EVIDENCE
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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