Teaching Portfolio- documenting your expertise in teaching

1. Teaching Portfolio- documenting your expertise in teaching Leonie Gordon

2. Record to demonstrate • Ideas and objectives that inform your teaching • Courses you teach • Methods you use especially if innovative • Effectiveness as teacher • How you assess and improve your teaching

3. Education Portfolio Should be • well organized, polished ,clear • a works in progress that will continue to revise as you progress in your academic career. • selective rather than comprehensive and is NOT a holding place for all your teaching materials but presents syllabi, assignments and other materials that best illustrates your teaching approach and methods

4. Teaching Philosophy statement • Provides a clear, concise account of your teaching approach, methods, and expertise. • Each statement should be unique.

5. Guidelines for teaching statement •  1) Why do you teach? • 2)What do you teach? • 3) How do you teach? • 4) How do you measure your effectiveness?

6. Examples and evidence of approaches and methods- Development Curriculum Academy of Medical Educators MUSC

7. Advising and Mentoring grid

8. Educational Leadership

9. Educational Leadership and Administration

10. Educational Research and Scholarship

11. Many examples you can use • Sample Syllabi • Courses Taught (note if TA or course instructor) • Courses Planned (tailor for specific applications) • Sample Assignments and Assessments • Essay assignments • Exams • Comments on student papers • Evidence of Teaching Effectiveness • Student evaluations • Evaluations by faculty member or other observer • Teaching awards • Video of a class • Evidence of Professional Development • Teaching workshops, seminars, publications, etc.

12. Why create a teaching portfolio ? Useful tool that can help you • develop, clarify, and reflect on your teaching philosophy, methods, and approaches • present teaching credentials for hiring and promotion in an academic position • document professional development in teaching • identify areas for improvement

13. When should you begin creating portfolio? • Begin as early as possible. • Even before you set foot in the classroom as a Teaching Assistant or instructor, you should begin thinking about the ideas and objectives that will guide you when you do so. Reading articles and attending workshops on teaching will help you identify current issues and potential approaches. As you build your teaching experience, you should also be developing your portfolio, which you can then update, refine, and improve when you are entering the academic job market. • May be requested to provide “teaching materials” or “evidence of teaching effectiveness” at some point in career. Sending Teaching portfolio is very effective

14. MUSC APT teaching guidelines Teaching is a vital contribution for each regular faculty member, regardless of their track designation The sharing of knowledge that is accurate, balanced, current and stimulating is expected from each faculty member. The most important role of the teacher is to motivate and inspire learners.

15. MUSC APT teaching Guidelines Continuing pursuit of knowledge is a life-long habit for scholars. • Clinical scholars, who have mastered a discipline related to patient care, teach in the ambulatory clinics and offices, at the bedside, in the emergency room, the operating and diagnostic procedure rooms. • Mastery of their discipline allows clinical research-oriented scholars to formulate, test and report new ideas, apply new basic information to patient care, question clinical dogmas and evaluate the complexities of cause/effect relationships in the management of diseases • scholars teach medical students, residents, and peers. http://www.musc.edu/sacs_documents/faculty_students_learning_resources/3.7.1_attachments/3.7.1_7_com_apt_policy.pdf