Search committees read a teaching section to judge two things: how much you have taught, and how much of it you owned. A bare list of course titles answers neither. Document each role so the reader can see the level, the responsibility, and the scale of what you handled.
Distinguish the role you actually played
There is a real difference between designing and running a course as the instructor of record and leading a discussion section as a teaching assistant. Committees know it, so name it. For each entry, state your title, the course, the institution, the term, and whether you set the syllabus, delivered lectures, wrote assessments, or supported another instructor. Vague phrasing here reads as inflation.
Show scope with concrete detail
Specifics turn a title into evidence. You do not need dramatic numbers, only honest ones.
- Level: undergraduate, graduate, or professional.
- Enrollment: the class size you were responsible for.
- Responsibility: syllabus design, grading, or guest lecturing.
- Mode: in person, online, lab, or seminar.
If you developed new material, mentored students, or supervised theses, give those their own lines because they show initiative beyond delivering an assigned course.
Placement and supporting evidence
Where the teaching section sits depends on the job. For a teaching-focused role, place it high, above publications. For a research post, it can sit lower. Group the entries in reverse chronological order and keep the formatting identical to your other sections. If you have teaching evaluations or a statement of teaching philosophy, mention that they are available rather than pasting them in, and keep the CV itself a clean summary that a reader can scan.
Structure the section in the CV maker, and see the full layout in our CV guide. To emphasize teaching for a particular posting, use tailor per role.