Purpose:

 The objective of the seminar is to introduce faculty members and evaluators to the merit and the know-how of preparing a teaching portfolio for improving, shaping and assessing their teaching. The seminar focuses on helping faculty members develop their own teaching portfolios. As such, the seminar will introduce the required components of a teaching portfolio; provide sources of information and data for inclusion in a portfolio ; and d escribe a framework for assessing and documenting the scholarship of teaching.

Topics:

• What is a teaching portfolio
• Why prepare a teaching portfolio
• What items to include in a teaching portfolio
• How to prepare a teaching portfolio
• How to incorporate course assessment aids/forms
• How to use the teaching portfolio
• What are some guidelines for assessing teaching portfolios
• To what extent portfolios should be used in faculty promotion/assessment/acknowledgement
• Samples of Portfolios

Seminar Design:

1. Introductory session
2. Working groups and discussions on compiling a teaching portfolio
3. Completion of own individual teaching portfolio
4. Possibly , inviting Seminar participants who started their own portfolios, to reflect on the process during Seminar. If that is not feasible, faculty may send samples of their portfolios for discussion purposes in the Seminar.

  Seminar Schedule on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2002