The artifacts you submit as part of your teaching assessment should indicate how you have grown as an instructor and how you plan to keep growing in addition to demonstrating performance in all framework categories. Choose artifacts that make sense together and tell a consistent story about your teaching.  For reviewers to get the most out of the artifacts you submit, you should briefly annotate your submissions directly along with providing a broader reflection and explanation in your narrative self-assessment. Consider using the strategies below as you annotate the artifacts you have chosen. See table for potential artifacts to represent each framework category; these are only some options and are not comprehensive or proscriptive.  

Annotation strategies:  

  • Highlight aspects of the artifact that best demonstrate your efforts toward learning-centered teaching. 
  • Summarize your strategy in creating the artifact. 
  • Indicate the intended and observed outcome of the artifact. 
  • Explain your future plans and goals based on what you learned from creating/using/engaging with the artifact. 
Framework categoryPotential evidentiary artifact
Learning-centered teaching practices 
that are engaging and inclusive.   
  • Lesson plan
  • Syllabus
  • Assignments
  • Midterm student feedback prompts and planning
  • Instructional team management
  • Mentoring graduate students in their teaching roles to support student learning 
Integration and alignment of learning 
goals, course materials, assignments, 
activities, and assessment strategies.   
  • Syllabus
  • Learning objectives
  • Assessment plan
  • Selections from student work (with permission) that indicate how your assessments are helping students learn or meet goals 
Responsiveness to feedback from 
students and peers related to 
supporting student learning. 
  • Midterm student feedback results and action plan
  • Written personal reflection on peer or student feedback (self-authored memo)
  • Course redesign plans and rationale 
Commitment to ongoing growth and
professional development as an instructor. 
  • Written personal reflection on outcomes of teaching professional development  
  • Plans for future evidence-based revisions to teaching practice
  • Teaching-related conference attendance/presentation for upcoming review period
  • Scholarly activity related to teaching
  • Evidence of departmental leadership around teaching initiatives