Career Development Teaching Portfolios (32 links)

Articulating Your Teaching Philosophy. University of Texas at El Paso - Center for Effective Teaching and Learning. Provides various exercises to guide faculty in thinking about, articulating, and writing a statement of teaching philosophy.

Creating a teaching portfolio: A guide for graduate assistants. University of California Los Angeles - Office of Instructional Development. A short activity-based workbook designed to help graduate assistants create a teaching portfolio. Covers where to start, data sources, selection of materials and getting feedback from others.

Designing a Teaching Portfolio. Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence. Describes the process of teaching portfolio development, including the planning, shaping and organizing, and the assessment and refining phases.

Developing a Teaching Portfolio. Ohio State University - Office of Faculty and TA Development. A practical guide to the development of a teaching portfolio. Addresses the following questions/areas: What is a portfolio?; Characteristics of a portfolio; Key components of a portfolio; Why create one?; How is one used?; What goes into one?; and Getting started. A list of references is included.

Documenting Your Teaching: The Teaching Portfolio. University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Describes the application, typical structure and organizing principles for the teaching portfolio, as well as recommendations for building your portfolio. Includes additional information on developing a portfolio, teaching philosophy statements, and assessing teaching portfolios. Includes a selected reading list.

Faculty Portfolios. State University of New York at Buffalo - Center for Teaching and Learning Resources. Provides links to resources on portfolio guidelines, portfolio development and sample portfolios from faculty representing a broad variety of academic disciplines.

Guidelines for Preparing a Teaching and Learning Folio. University of Western Australia - Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning. Describes how to create a teaching portfolio, including how to select evidence supporting effective teaching and learning, educational leadership, and commitment to high quality education.

If you've got it flaunt it: Uses and abuses of teaching portfolios. Felder, RM & Brent, R. A short but informative set of FAQs on the teaching portfolio addressing its purpose, design and use in evaluation. Includes a rationale for the philosophy statement and how portfolio programs can be successfully incorporated into the academy.

Preparing a Teaching Portfolio: A Guidebook. University of Texas at Austin - Center for Teaching Effectiveness. Topics include: What is a Teaching Portfolio?; Steps for Compiling a Teaching Portfolio; and the Components/Materials to Put Into a Portfolio. Provides good suggestions on interpreting student evaluations and peer observation of classroom instruction.

Promoting a Culture of Teaching: The Teaching Portfolio. Stanford University - Center for Teaching and Learning. Defines a teaching portfolio, describes it typical contents, discusses the importance of the narrative self-assessment, and outlines the role of the portfolio in assessing teaching effectiveness and in peer review and mentoring.

Recommended Portfolio Contents. Iowa State University - Center for Teaching Excellence. A brief list of the many types of information that might be included or summarized in your teaching portfolio. Recommended sections include: Roles, Responsibilities, and Goals, Representative Course Materials, Materials Showing the Extent of Student Learning, Evaluations of Teaching, Contributions to Your Institution or Profession, Activities to Improve Instruction, and Honors or Recognitions

Statements of Teaching Philosophy. University of Texas at El Paso - Center for Effective Teaching and Learning. Well-defined teaching philosophy is essential to creating and maintaining a campus culture supportive of teaching. Presented in this paper are reasons for statements of teaching philosophy as well as descriptions of how the statements are beneficial to students, faculty, and university administrations. Described are ways of creating a statement of teaching philosophy and dimensions that may be included in such statements.

Successful Faculty Development and Evaluation: The Complete Teaching Portfolio (ERIC Digest). ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education. A series of FAQs on teaching portfolios, including What is a teaching portfolio? What does higher education value? What should a teaching portfolio contain? and How can administrators build interest?

Teaching Dossier Kit. University of Victoria - Learning and Teaching Centre. Provides a teaching dossier (portfolio) kit. Recommends linking dossier contents to the seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education. Includes discussion on dossier evaluation, example dossier tables of contents and a dossier checklist.

Teaching Dossier Preparation. University of British Columbia. Defines the teaching dossier (portfolio), describes what a typical dossier looks like and provides guidelines for assembling and organizing one's dossier.

Teaching Evaluation Handbook Chapter 2: The Teaching Portfolio: A Model for Documenting Teaching and Its Improvement. Cornell University - Center for Learning and Teaching. Applies the Edgerton, Hutchings, Quinlan/AAHE model (1991) to teacher portfolio development, with an emphasis on its use in the promotion/tenure process. Covers the proper selection of work samples and provision of reflective commentary. Includes useful examples (outlines, work samples, reflective commentary).

Teaching Portfolio. Washington State University - Office of Provost. Defines the teaching portfolio, describes its general format and provides a very detailed outline of its expected contents, divided into the following categorizes: Goals, Responsibilities, Evaluations, Results, and Appendix or Exhibits. Provides excerpted examples of teaching portfolios.

Teaching Portfolio. University of California - Career Center. Describes the typical elements constituting a teaching portfolio, including one's teaching philosophy statement, a list of courses taught and sample syllabi, teaching evaluations and letters of recommendation. Also mentions the use of videotape as evidence in support of effective teaching.

Teaching Portfolio. University of Iowa College of Medicine - Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education. Describes the teaching portfolio concept; explains how faculty members can develop teaching portfolios; and provides examples of key sections of portfolios. Includes selected published references on teaching portfolios.

Teaching Portfolio Bibliography. Illinois State University - Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology. A rather comprehensive bibliography of books, articles and ERIC monographs on the rationale and use of teaching portfolios in higher education.

Teaching Portfolios. University of Texas at El Paso - Center for Effective Teaching and Learning. Provides a comprehensive set of tools for developing and assessing faculty teaching portfolios - both as a formative tool and as a summative evaluation of scholarly work.

Teaching Portfolios. Illinois State University - Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology. Provides several sample teaching portfolio narratives by faculty from Illinois State University as well as links to other teaching portfolio Web sites.

Teaching Portfolios. University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - Teaching Resource Center. Topics include: What is a Teaching Portfolio; What Should be in the Teaching Portfolio; Uses of the Teaching Portfolio; Guidelines for Developing a Portfolio Program; Research of Interest; and References and Suggested Reading. Also describes characteristics of effective portfolios and the results of a faculty study about using portfolios for evaluation.

Teaching Portfolios. National Library of Medicine. A dynamic search of the NLM Medline database on this topic using the NLM PubMed interface.

Teaching Portfolios Bibliography. Deliberations on Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. A selected bibliography of books and articles on the rationale and use of the teaching portfolio in higher education.

Teaching Portfolios I - Documenting Success and Progress. University of Colorado at Denver - Office of Teaching Effectiveness. Defines the teaching portfolio as a concise compilation that presents a professor's teaching philosophy and documents his or her activities, strengths, and accomplishments. Typically it includes an organized narrative of a few pages, followed by a set of appendices that provide more detailed documentation.

Teaching Portfolios II - Documenting Success and Progress. University of Colorado at Denver - Office of Teaching Effectiveness. Provides a useful checklist of good entries for a teaching portfolio with a rationale for each.

The Teaching Portfolio. Brown University - Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning. Introduces and explains the teaching portfolio concept as a way to demonstrate one's teaching credentials to colleagues, department chairs and potential employers. Describes the typical format and outlines a 6-step procedure for constructing your Teaching Portfolio. Provides example outlines of teaching portfolios from faculty in several disciplines and a good bibliography.

The Teaching Portfolio. Seldin, P. Two chapters ( The Teaching Portfolio & Choosing Items for the Portfolio) excerpted from Peter Seldin's book The Teaching Portfolio - A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/tenure Decisions, 2nd ed, Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing.

The Teaching Portfolio. University of Michigan - Center for Research on Learning and Teaching. A detailed look at the structure and function of the teaching portfolio. Sections include: What Is a Teaching Portfolio?; What Might Go into a Portfolio?; Purposes of Portfolios; How are Portfolios Evaluated?; Advantages of Portfolios; and How Can Faculty Get Started. Include a list of possible items for inclusion and a form for peer review of portfolio materials.

The Teaching Portfolio. University of Saskatchewan - Teaching & Learning Centre. Provides a definition of a teaching portfolio; some self-paced exercises; a description of what to include in your portfolio; a set of frequently asked questions; excerpts from other teachers' portfolios; and readings, examples, and other resources.

Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement. Iowa State University - Center for Teaching Excellence. A philosophy of teaching statement should reflect your personal values and the needs of your students and your department. At the least, you will want to address four primary questions, usually in this order. 1. To what end? 2. By what means? 3. To what degree? 4. Why?