"Excellence in teaching has become a stock phrase in most faculty job descriptions; yet how does one demonstrate this to current colleagues and/or future employers? One answer is a Teaching Portfolio, which is a description of an instructor's major strengths and teaching achievements. It describes documents and materials, which collectively suggest the scope and quality of an instructor's teaching proficiency."  

(From the introduction to The Teaching Portfolioby Hannelore B. Rodriguez-Farrarof the Brown University Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching & Learning.

Purpose:

Developing a Teaching Portfoliois meant to introduce faculty members and evaluators to the merits and know-how of preparing a teaching portfolio for improving, shaping and assessing their teaching. The purpose of the Seminar is to assist faculty members in developing their own teaching portfolios and as such, introduces the required components of a teaching portfolio; provides sources of information and data that could be included in a portfolio; and describes a framework for assessing and documenting the scholarship of teaching.

Participants:

Full time faculty members and teaching staff. (Maximum number of participants is 20 per session)

Topics:

1. What is a teaching portfolio?
2. Why prepare a teaching portfolio
3. What items to include in a teaching portfolio
4. How to prepare a teaching portfolio
5. How to incorporate course assessment aids/forms
6. How to use a teaching portfolio
7. What guidelines can be used in assessing teaching portfolios
8. To what extent portfolios should be used in faculty promotion/assessment/acknowledgement
9. Samples of Portfolios

 Seminar Design:

1. Presentation on developing a teaching portfolio
2. Examples of portfolios
3. Standards for evaluating portfolios
4. Discussions based on the above and participants CV�s
5. Sharing experiences

 Facilitators:

Dr. Nesreen Ghaddar, FEA

Mrs. Nuhad Dumit, School of Nursing

Dr. Ayman Kayssi, FEA

Date:  Saturday, January 10, 2004

Place:Auditorium B1, College Hall

Seminar Schedule on Saturday, January 10, 2004

Kindly, bring your CV to use in the Seminar.