Teaching Portfolio Sites

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The Harriet Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning at Brown University has several excellent resources designed to assist advanced graduate students and faculty in the preparation of their teaching portfolios. The Teaching Portfolio is a handbook that outlines both the contents of a teaching portfolio and the steps by which one can assemble it. Here you'll find detailed guildelines for constructing your teaching portfolio. I highly recommend these and other web resources of the Sheridan Center.

The Teaching Portfolio at Washington State University comes from the Office of the Provost and presents a detailed template and two examples of portfolios submitted by faculty being considered for promotion.

Designing a Teaching Portfolio comes from the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Penn State. Psychology graduate students will appreciate its approach to the teaching portfolio: what are its purpose and audience? what claims will you make regarding your teaching effectiveness? what documentation will you provide to support those claims? A useful bibliography rounds out the page. http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/Tools/Portfolios/

How to Produce a Teaching Portfolio consists of excerpts from Seldin's book, The Teaching Portfolio - A practical guide to improved performance and promotion/tenure decisions, 2nd Ed.. Chapter 1, The Teaching Portfolio, describes the use of the teaching portfolio in faculty hiring and promotion decisions by increasing numbers of colleges and universities. In chapter 2, Choosing Items for the Portfolio, Seldin provides useful outlines of potential materials, but argues against "focusing on a shopping list of possible portfolio items." Rather, Seldin thinks the contents of a teaching portfolio should follow from one's philosophy of teaching and from the strategies that flow from it, not the other way around.

Drafting your own Philosophy of Teaching is a service that teachingpersectives.com will provide you for a fee, after you complete the TPI (Teaching Perspectives Inventory). Based on your responses, they'll construct an outline "organized around what you declare to be your beliefs about teaching and learning, your intentions as you plan and organize your teaching strategies, and your actions in the classroom (or other learning setting) as you manage the learning process of your students. In addition, specific statements about your key beliefs, your primary role, the typical responsibilities that accompany your individual perspectives profile, and your commonly-used strategies are highlighted for you to incorporate into your Philosophy of Teaching statement."

Professors and graduate students frequently post electronic portfolios on the web. Several of those on the Univ. of Virginia Teaching Resource page Portfolios on the web are from the psychology department.

In August 2011 my own Google search on "teaching portfolio" returned more than 5 million links. By doing an advanced search requiring the phrase "teaching portfolio" and requiring "college" or "university" and by restricting the language to English and the domain to .edu, the number was reduced to 51,700.

To restrict your search even more, try one of the sites below.

External Links on Teaching Portfolios from the Deliberations web site are accompanied by brief annotations, enhancing their usefulness IMHO.

University of Chicago Teaching Portfolio resources.

UMDNJ Teaching Portfolio links.

This page was modified on August 29, 2011