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

2. What is a Teaching Portfolio? A collection of documents and artifacts that showcase teaching experiences, development, and potential.

3. 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

4. What does a Teaching Portfolio include? Documentation Evidence Reflection Based on Longfield (2010), Creating a Teaching Portfolio: Guidelines for TAs, available at http://www.units.muohio.edu/celt/students/gstep/Guidlines%20for%20Teaching%20Assistants.pdf http://www.units.muohio.edu/celt/students/gstep/Guidlines%20for%20Teaching%20Assistants.pdf

5. Documentation Teaching philosophy/statement List of courses taught with instructional goals Based on Longfield (2010), Creating a Teaching Portfolio: Guidelines for TAs, available at http://www.units.muohio.edu/celt/students/gstep/Guidlines%20for%20Teaching%20Assistants.pdf http://www.units.muohio.edu/celt/students/gstep/Guidlines%20for%20Teaching%20Assistants.pdf

6. 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 at http://www.units.muohio.edu/celt/students/gstep/Guidlines%20for%20Teaching%20Assistants.pdf http://www.units.muohio.edu/celt/students/gstep/Guidlines%20for%20Teaching%20Assistants.pdf

7. 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 at http://www.units.muohio.edu/celt/students/gstep/Guidlines%20for%20Teaching%20Assistants.pdf http://www.units.muohio.edu/celt/students/gstep/Guidlines%20for%20Teaching%20Assistants.pdf

8. 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

9. 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

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

11. 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