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Teaching Portfolio Workshop for Graduate Students. Teaching Portfolio Overview Definition What does it include? Examples Getting Started: The Teaching Statement Definition and development. What is a Teaching Portfolio ?.
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Teaching Portfolio Workshop for Graduate Students Teaching Portfolio Overview Definition What does it include? Examples Getting Started: The Teaching Statement Definition 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