Teaching Autobiography - some helpful hints

In preparation for the first afternoon of Boot Camp, please bring a short writtenaccount of your career as a teacher, a "teaching autobiography." This is not an autobiography in the usual sense. It should be written after you have gone through the modules on introspective reflection that you received via e-mail.

We hope you will focus on your career as a teacher and even project into the future. And it should be short - no more than two double - spaced pages. It should evoke your career rather than describing it in detail. We hope it will get you into a reflective frame of mind, and help you to clarify the most important points that you have derived from the exercise above.

Some points you may want to consider (of course, you won't have room for all of them) are

(1) how you got into teaching in the first place

(2) what you have accomplished so far

(3) defining moments or formative experiences along the way

(4) where you are now in your teaching career

(5) your aspirations as a teacher

(6) what you are proud of

(7) what seems difficult

(8) what you bring to teaching, and so on.