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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks Joe. I'm choosing this as the correct answer since your suggestion that I ask some faculty to sit in on my lectures might help me correct the fact that currently no faculty are really familiar with my teaching. $\endgroup$
    – Amit Kumar Gupta
    Commented Jul 9, 2011 at 17:59
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    $\begingroup$ Yes, absolutely, if no faculty have seen you teach/TA, ask suitable people (very politely, because they are doing you a favor, etc) to please, please sit in... To echo other comments: the only "teaching letters" that have a positive impact are from relatively senior faculty who have seen your teaching. Many universities arrange for this to happen, but some don't, and the ones that do arrange it may not have the best people doing it! And, again, letters from students are generally considered throw-aways, at best, and at worst a sign of poor judgement on the applicant's part... Good luck! $\endgroup$
    – paul garrett
    Commented Jul 9, 2011 at 19:35
  • $\begingroup$ Also, make sure that whoever is writing your teaching letter has access to your student evaluations. (But most likely, whoever is writing the letter has written a couple of them before, and will routinely get the evaluations in some way.) $\endgroup$
    – Arend Bayer
    Commented Jul 10, 2011 at 14:35