Faculty Resources for Documenting Undergraduate Research

Teaching frequently moves beyond the classroom. One form this can take is as undergraduate research, where faculty mentor and teach students skills and techniques that are foundational to their fields. These mentored experiences can be used as material for the teaching portion of the promotion and tenure portfolio. 

This page provides resources to use as a framework for building a portfolio that emphasizes these efforts. It is not an exhaustive resource. 

Getting Started

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Define Your Engagement

Think about how you want to discuss your work teaching outside the classroom. Do you want to relate it as number of students, hours per week, student presentations/publications, etc.? This is also an opportunity to look at the different modes of pedagogy employed in teaching students beyond the classroom and the flexibility required to move between these modes. 

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Assess and Reflect

After thinking about the various ways teaching beyond the classroom looks, begin to find themes and impacts.

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Relay your Impact

The final step is pulling everything together and discussing the impact of your work with students in a more research-focused arena. This is a chance to look at how these opportunities impact student success, not only academically but as growing professionals. Additionally, you can look at how mentoring students impacted your teaching philosophy and approach to including students in work outside the lecture hall.