Demystifying the Dossier: Looking Ahead: Identifying & Articulating Teaching Success

Facilitators:
Megan Burnett, Associate Director, CTSI
Kelly Gordon, Coordinator, Programs & Strategic Initiatives, CTSI

Online

At the University of Toronto, a teaching dossier must be submitted as part of the formal review process for tenure and continuing status. Beyond the information included in an academic CV, a teaching dossier describes and documents an instructor’s teaching expertise, goals and priorities for teaching and learning. It also highlights personal contributions to course and curriculum design efforts in a department or program, evidence of student impact, and evidence of teaching leadership. 

This session offers practical tips on how to produce, document, collect and reflect on the materials necessary for the compilation of an effective teaching dossier – including gathering, framing and acting on student feedback and tracking and honing teaching materials – with a particular focus on professional development and educational leadership. This workshop will not focus on how to draft the actual dossier; rather, we will examine strategies for ensuring that you are ready to prepare a dossier when the time comes.

Participants in this workshop will:

• Identify practices for reflecting on teaching development and educational leadership
• Develop a framework for approaching the collection of teaching-related data, the organization of these data and synthesis of key dossier elements
• Practice articulating key aspects of your teaching and educational leadership through writing and discussion
• Consider when and how to document your teaching in line with the regular cycle of your work
• Identify how to get started with professional development focussed on teaching

In preparation for this webinar, participants will be provided with a digital workbook prior to the webinar and asked to complete a set of brief pre-work activities and reflections. This work will be taken up in the live webinar and will form the basis of the online workshop activities.