Teaching Portfolios at McGill

MAUT Tenure, Renewal & Mentoring Workshop for Academic & Librarian Staff

19 April 2013

Laura WinerAssociate Director, Teaching and Learning Services

Context of the Teaching Portfolio

Teaching

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Research

Service

The tenure and promotion dossier

Regulations Relating to the Employment of Tenure Track and Tenured Academic Staff

• 7.12 the “internal package” (p. 7)

• “d) a record of the candidate’s teaching (including graduate and professional supervision as appropriate). Information about the candidate’s teaching shall be prepared in accordance with the Teaching Portfolio Guidelines (Appendix A)”;

http://www.mcgill.ca/secretariat/sites/mcgill.ca.secretariat/files/2012_may_17_employment_of_tenure_track_and_tenured_academic_staff_regs_-_effective_sept_2012.pdf

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What is a teaching portfolio?

A concise compilation of selected information that systematically documents the effectiveness as well as the scope, complexity, and individuality of an instructor’s teaching.

It reflects the progression of teaching over the last few years.

http://www.mcgill.ca/secretariat/sites/mcgill.ca.secretariat/files/2012_may_17_employment_of_tenure_track_and_tenured_academic_staff_regs_-_effective_sept_2012.pdf, (pp. 20-21)

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Helps us think about teaching as a scholarly act

• Examine teaching as part of our professorial responsibility - as members of our disciplinary community and the McGill community

• Judge according to standards

• Make teaching visible through artifacts

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Structure

Body (5-10 pages)1. Teaching approach or philosophy (1-2 pgs)

2. Teaching responsibilities

3. Evidence of teaching effectiveness

4. Teaching development and educational leadership (if applicable)

Appendices (10 pages max)Documents explicitly referenced in Body

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1) Teaching Approach/Philosophy

How do you teach?1. What strategies do you use?

2. How do you assess learning?

Why you teach the way you do?

(1-2 pages)

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2) Teaching responsibilities:

• Courses taught, level, enrollment, format• Clinical teaching: describe and quantify

interactions

• New courses developed, with rationale• Supervision

• Undergraduate, Graduate and Postdoc• projects, theses, internships

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3) Evidence of effectiveness

• Summary and interpretation of course evaluation

numerical ratings with dept/Faculty norms• Measures taken in response to feedback • Evidence of effective post-doc, grad and

undergrad supervision (where applicable)

http://www.mcgill.ca/tls/teaching/course-evaluations/interpretation

http://www.mcgill.ca/tls/teaching/course-evaluations/reports

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4)Teaching development and educational leadership

• Teaching development efforts (e.g., workshops)• Advising or mentoring colleagues or TAs about

teaching issues • Contributions through teaching support units,

teaching committees (departmental/Faculty/University)

• Contributions to the development of curriculum or policies on teaching

• Development and sharing of teaching innovations

Gather evidence!

• A (virtual) shoebox – Students supervised (undergrad & graduate)– Course evaluations– Committees related to teaching and learning– Contributions to program development– (Re)Design of courses

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:Producing your own teaching portfolio

• Consult online resources• Have others review drafts of portfolio• Review sample portfolios at TLS• Request individual consultation from TLS

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:Websites with guidelines for developing a teaching portfolio

1. University Affairs http://www.universityaffairs.ca/developing-a-teaching-profile.aspx

2. University of Saskatchewan http://www.usask.ca/gmcte/resources/portfolio

3. UBC http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/ctl/support/teachingportfolios.html

4. University of Texas at Austin, Center for Teaching and Learning http://ctl.utexas.edu/node/241

5. Vanderbilt http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/teaching-guides/reflecting/teaching-portfolios /

6. Iowa State University, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching http://www.celt.iastate.edu/faculty/portfolio_contents.html

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Individual consultations available

• Development of/feedback on portfolios• Interpretation of course evaluations• Sample portfolios to review

• tls@mcgill.ca• x6648

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Teaching and Learning Services

http://www.mcgill.ca/tls

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QUESTIONS?