I’m kicking off a new mini-series designed to help you reflect on your goals and commitments as you navigate life inside and outside the classroom. Each semester is a chance to pause and take stock, in this case of your of service commitments, areas for growth, and how you’ll document your impact.

A recap of our week-long, three-part BYTE workshop series attended by future faculty and educational developers from the United States and abroad for POD Network’s Graduate Student, Professional Student, and Postdoctoral Scholar Development Special Interest Group.

Whether you're a teaching-track faculty member starting your career or looking to enhance your scholarly teaching practices, this blog series will guide you to pause, reflect, and define what scholarly teaching means for you. In this post, we explore scholarly teaching through my ORCHID acronym, offering actionable insights for the upcoming school year.

Writing a FDP helps you capture and distill the inner voice— informed by many years of scholarship, professionalization, and experience— that intuitively guides the choices you make when planning, delivering, and assessing a program or workshop.  

Let’s flip the teaching philosophy script to reimagine this important career document as a creative platform for self-efficacy and intentional storytelling.