HOWARD COMMUNITY
COLLEGE
Teaching Portfolio Project
An integral part of the mission of all
community colleges from their beginnings in the late 1800s has been to
"provide the first and second year college students with the best
instructors".[1]
At
This portfolio is intended to be a
description of your professional accomplishments at
As we approach the point where you may be
issued a continuing faculty contract, we ask you to reflect upon your first two
and a half years. To accomplish this goal you should collect items from the
previous years ,such as the following, to be used in your portfolio.
1. Your IDEA reports from your first two
years as a full-time instructor
2. Grade Distribution Reports (available
from your chairperson)
3. Observation reports from your supervisor
and any other class visitors, such as your mentor , students
4. Peer partnership materials
5. Your MAPs from your first three years as
a full-time instructor
6. Syllabi, handouts, lecture notes, special
classroom presentations, instructional innovations, etc.
7. Publications, workshop presentations,
honors received
8. Statement of your teaching philosophy and
personal goals for the next few years
9. Professional development material
10. Special activities related to teaching and learning
In an effort to guide you through the
creation of your portfolio, we have chosen some general sections to be
included. You may choose any means of presentation to provide evidence of
accomplishment in the areas specified. Some suggestions for presentation include a
report, journal entries kept throughout the period, notebook format, video,
PowerPoint/Flash presentation etc.
Timetable
(If the date falls on a
weekend or a holiday, the next “business day” will take precedence.)
March 1 The
Teaching Assessment Project is due to your Division Chair. Chairs attach their comments to your booklet
and forward it to the Vice President of Academic Affairs.
March 1 The rest of the MAPs requirements,
usually due in April, are due since this is a promotion year for you.
June 15 The Notification of
Intent to issue a continuing contract, additional Probationary contract, or no
contract.
Please remember:
Ø
No
extensions are permitted for the March 1 due date.
The
following sections should be included in your portfolio. The items you choose
to use to provide evidence in these areas is your choice although we do provide
suggestions which you may follow!
Keep
in mind that the evidence you provide should support your philosophies and
beliefs in teaching and learning. Point out how the items used reflect your
beliefs and theories.
B. Responsibilities-
roles-include courses taught, types of
students encountered (majors, non majors, special needs, level of readiness,
etc.); mentoring; advising; coordinatorship; committee work; etc.
C. Teaching methods/
strategies- how you teach your courses; strategies used;
describe how you work with students (in class, during office hours, on “off
duty” times, in lab situations, etc.); provide syllabi or other course
materials; use of outside resources; innovative classroom techniques; how
methods have changed to reflect your interpretation of your philosophy.
D. Evaluations-
feedback- evidence of student learning; student ratings, chair/peer
evaluations, awards received, letters received; honors received, classroom
research, samples of student work along with instructor feedback; student
journals/testimonials; success rates; percentage of students who returned to
take another class taught by you; etc.
E. Professional Development-
efforts to improve; conferences/workshops
attended; training; curricular revisions; innovations attempted and their
effectiveness; projects; describe steps taken to enhance teaching
skills/knowledge; teacher development activities; contributions to journals;
publications; off campus activities; helping others with their teaching; etc.
F. Goals/reflection-
long and short term goals; intentions and aspirations; reflect on student/peer
relationships you encountered; alternate teaching methods; motivation of
students; developing rapport
We
want this portfolio to be formatted in a way which reflects your personal style
and that is why it is not a highly structured document. It should present
selected information on teaching activities which support your beliefs thereby
provide evidence as to who you are as an instructor.
The
following resources have been used in creating this project. Feel free to visit
them for additional information regarding creating teaching portfolios. They are
tremendously helpful!
Center for
Excellence in Learning and
http://www.psu.edu/celt/portfolio.html
Deliberations
on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
http://www.city.londonmet.ac.uk/deliberations/portfolios/ICED_workshop/seldin_book.html
http://www.usask.ca/tlc/teaching_portfolios/what_is_a_portfolio.html
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cte/teachfolio.html
http://www.utep.edu/cetal/portfoli/intro.htm
The Teaching
Portfolio: Capturing the Scholarship in Teaching; Edgerton, Russell, Hutchings
and Quinlan
Recasting the Teaching
Portfolio; The Teaching Professor, Dec, 1997
The Teaching
Portfolio- A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/Tenure
Decisions; Peter Seldin, 1997