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Educator’s CV
Educator’s Reflective Document
Teaching Portfolio
WHO SHOULD CONSIDER SUBMITTING A PROMOTION PACKET?
Other professional activities that apply include engagement in educational leadership, student advising, development of new educational programs, curriculum revision, and/or the scholarship of teaching & learning.
Our focus at this point is West Region CVM Consortium faculty who have “significant” teaching responsibilities. This includes teaching in classroom, laboratory, small groups, and/or clinical settings.
“Significant” means that an applicant invests 40% or more of their professional effort in the teaching mission of their college, OR any faculty member who considers teaching an essential component of their professional identity, OR any faculty member for whom teaching will be an important part of their review.
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT?
- The RTA’s External Peer Review of Teaching (EPRT) Initiative will conduct an evidence-based review of your promotion dossier and write an external review letter.
- This letter will be sent to your department chair (or chair of your promotion committee) to be added to the materials reviewed by your department, college, and university. It will thereby serve as ONE of the external letters your institution will consider as part of your promotion review.
- The remaining external review letters will come from the other typical sources as recommended or required at your institution.
- If you are looking for names of additional individual reviewers who might best understand your responsibilities and the role of teaching, please contact the Chair of the RTA EPRT Initiative, or see a local representative of the group. Members of the EPRT are listed at the bottom of the EPRT home page.
HOW THE PROCESS WILL WORK
- Please use the format prescribed in the Applicant Toolbox.
If your institution mandates a fixed CV or promotion packet format, place the RTA’s EPRT documents into your APPENDIX. Then, to the degree possible, make sure the appendix and its contents are provided to all reviewers, both external and internal. Your promotion packet should be considered a persuasive document, like a grant proposal. Be sure it adequately showcases your activities and achievements. - Coaching:
Consult with local members of the RTA EPRT group for general and specific advice on preparing your promotion documents for submission. If your RTA member institution does not have local RTA EPRT members, you are welcome to ask an RTA EPRT member from another institution. These individuals will NOT be part of the review process due to the potential conflict of interest. However, they can offer good advice to strengthen your promotion packet.
- Submission: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS
Local representatives
QUICK TIPS:
- Plan ahead so that there is plenty of time to get your materials submitted and reviewed!
- Consider acquiring a copy of Adobe Acrobat Pro to use as an easy way to assemble your document. It provides a simple way to combine PDF and Word docs into single documents.
- See recommendations in Applicant Toolbox. Best practice is likely to submit 4 PDF documents.
- Consider a Table of Contents for each section and embedded hyperlinks that allow the reviewer to quick move to a specific section within each document.