Lecturer Template: Teaching Ahead of Research

A teaching post is judged on three things: what you teach, how you are evaluated, and whom you supervise. This template gives those elements an explicit place ahead of the publication list, so the CV answers what a department actually looks for.

The steps

1. Start with your academic details and current position
2. Add the courses section: what you taught, at what level, to how many students
3. Add an evaluations section if student feedback is available — direct evidence of teaching quality
4. Add supervision of dissertations and student projects
5. Put publications after that; section order decides what is read first

Practical tips

• Describe your teaching approach in one line: lectures, practical projects, case-based learning
• Name courses you built from scratch — stronger than ones you delivered as designed
• Without evaluation data, cite a concrete improvement you made to a course

Common mistakes to avoid

• Submitting a researcher's CV with teaching omitted, which weakens a teaching application
• Listing courses by internal codes that mean nothing outside your institution

Frequently asked questions

Should publications come before teaching?

For a teaching post, no. The first section sets the committee's impression, and a department hiring a lecturer looks for a teacher. For a pure research post, reverse it.

What is the strongest teaching evidence?

Student evaluations or demonstrated improvement; failing that, the course you built and how you assess students. Describe the method, not your qualities.

Links for this guide

• See the lecturer template
• Or the researcher template