Teaching Portfolio Workshop for Graduate Students

Teaching Portfolio OverviewDefinition

What does it include?

Examples

Getting Started: The Teaching StatementDefinition and development

What is a Teaching Portfolio?

A collection of documents and artifacts that showcase teaching experiences, development, and potential.

Why create a Teaching Portfolio?

•An opportunity for reflexivity• Inspiration and motivation•Organizational tool•Develop a habit of “documenting” •professional development• job market• reappointments and promotions

What does a Teaching Portfolio include?

Documentation

Evidence

Reflection

Based on Longfield (2010), Creating a Teaching Portfolio: Guidelines for TAs, available athttp://www.units.muohio.edu/celt/students/gstep/Guidlines%20for%20Teaching%20Assistants.pdf

Documentation

•Teaching philosophy/statement

•List of courses taught with instructional goals

Based on Longfield (2010), Creating a Teaching Portfolio: Guidelines for TAs, available athttp://www.units.muohio.edu/celt/students/gstep/Guidlines%20for%20Teaching%20Assistants.pdf

Evidence

•Samples of instructional materials

syllabi, assignments, exams

•Samples of student work

•Summary of evaluations

•Teaching observation reports/letters

Based on Longfield (2010), Creating a Teaching Portfolio: Guidelines for TAs, available athttp://www.units.muohio.edu/celt/students/gstep/Guidlines%20for%20Teaching%20Assistants.pdf

Reflection

What have you learned?

How do you intend to develop in the future?

Based on Longfield (2010), Creating a Teaching Portfolio: Guidelines for TAs, available athttp://www.units.muohio.edu/celt/students/gstep/Guidlines%20for%20Teaching%20Assistants.pdf

How do you start?

• Identify your teaching style, goals, and values to inform your statement

•Gather evidence

•Organize your evidence•Write reflective/summary statements about the evidence

Organizing a Teaching Portfolio

•Title page

•Table of contents/menu for an online

portfolio

• Introduction/summary of contents

•Clear sections with brief summaries•Styles vary

printed and bound versus online

•Get feedback and revise

Examples

• http://ucat.osu.edu/read/teaching-portfolio/table-of-contents• http://oklportfolio.wordpress.com/• http://home.gwu.edu/~nmilman/http

://curry.virginia.edu/academics/directory/mable-b.-kinzie• http://people.virginia.edu/~gbull/• http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/j/jrmeyer/www/portfolio.html

Teaching Portfolio Checklist

•Draft a teaching statement

•Collect evidence of teaching effectiveness

•Format student evaluations and feedback•Organize into a continuous document

with summaries of contents

•Get feedback and revise