Writing a cover letter for a community college teaching position is a slightly different task than writing a standard cover letter. While you should definitely use the language in the job advertisement when you describe your skills in the cover letter (and avoid addressing the letter to To Whom It May Concern at all costs), you can also include teaching evaluations and comments by students:
Demonstrate you’ve got the chops — Part I. Let your readers hear your students’ voices or see their reactions to your work. This can be done in a variety of ways: by quoting particular passages from student evaluations or by including single-page summaries of numerical evaluations and comments in an appendix (avoid sending scores of pages). If you’ve been nominated for or won a teaching award, talk about it as modestly and tastefully as you can.
For a teaching position at a community college, you can let the cover letter run more than one page, but I wouldn’t go more than two pages.
Leave a Comment