Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Date of this Version
1996
Citation
Essays on Teaching Excellence" Toward the Best in the Academy (1995-1996) 7(3)
A publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Abstract
Few ideas are as appealing on the surface as encouraging professors to gather and reflect on materials that best represent their teaching excellence. Indeed, developing a teaching portfolio, or dossier, has become a popular faculty development activity in many departments and on many campuses. To create a portfolio, faculty select syllabi, tests, student work, and student evaluations about one or more courses, and add a reflective statement, usually called a teaching philosophy, about their teaching goals. In almost all cases, reports from the field state that professors find reaffirming the teaching portfolio process and the opportunity to reflect on their teaching, document successes, explain their teaching struggles, and find out that others have faced the same challenges.
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Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Higher Education and Teaching Commons, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Commons
Comments
Copyright 1996, Richlin and Manning. Used by permission