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Seminar On Developing a Teaching Portfolio
Friday, December 01, 2006
1. The activities that are most useful:
* Personal experience of presenters.
* The comments (real life experience) of the presenters.
* Integration with other seminars.
* Sample portfolio and final presentation by Dr. BouJaoude.
* Dima and Nisreen's cases.
* Portfolios by presenters as clear illustrations for the seminar content.
* Methods of organizing material experience of others particularly useful.
* Discussion about teaching philosophies.
* All.
* Using the worksheets to reflect on my teaching.
* self-reflection exercises. Sharing opinion.
* Presentations, examples of portfolio.
* Examples from other faculty portfolios. Explanation of 'evidence'.
* The worksheet was very useful to think about my own teaching portfolio and the way I teach.
* Shared experiences with successful colleagues who excelled at teaching.
2. The new ideas I got from the Seminars are:
* A teaching portfolio is important for self-development, beyond promotion or evaluation.
* Everything. It is the first time I attend a portfolio session.
* The problems faced in writing portfolio.
* How to document evidence.
* The seminar helped me to structure my thinking about my teaching.
* Extent of types of evidence I can include.
* How to work on a teaching portfolio. Show importance of teaching rather than achievements.
* The idea of "Accountable Talk" in discussion and papers. Structured - Comprehensive - Selective.
* Writing and teaching philosophy. Thinking how a portfolio is evaluated. How to show improvement/progress in teaching.
* Tracking what I do will help me improve, make it easier to make headways in my teaching methodology.
* Lots of ideas of teaching methods. Need for documenting now!.
* Some teaching methodologies: personal history, movies. The concept of "accountable talk".
* A better perspective of how to organize and prepare my teaching portfolio. Checking my portfolio with CTL.
* In addition to the importance of teaching portfolio for my own benefit as a teacher (ex. Concentrating on concepts; show history of concept, development, maybe with picture of people who developed concepts).
3. Suggestions to improve today's Seminar:
* More details on the unions evaluation documents (student evaluations, peer, other..)
* More group work.
* Shorten the time to 2 hours.
* Taylor to multi-discipline e.g. Sciences versus Humanities.
* Discuss briefly the obstacles that confront us in ?. And portfolio.
* More examples or case studies of portfolio. Diversify content to include examples from diverse discipline (from architecture to mathematics).
* More focus on the work-sheet. But perhaps in the 2nd half of the seminar.
* Perfect as it is.
* More group tasks/ interaction. Less powerpoint slides.
* Give more quantitative guidelines e.g. maximum nb of pages in a teaching portfolio. * May be have examples of portfolio (selected from websites for example).
4. Other Comments:
* Very interesting and important seminar. Thank you for a great job.
* it is good to offer a seminar on how to prepare your file for promotion.
* Even more group work.
* Thank you.
* Keep the good work.
* Up-beat and interesting. Thank you for sharing this valuable information with us.
* Thank you very much.
* I learnt a lot. Thank you.
* Very informative and useful. Well organized. Helpful handouts that can be shared with peers.
* Thank you.
* I appreciate having the seminar despite the situation on the streets outside. * Thank you. I always enjoy Dr. BouJaoude's and Dr. Nasr seminars. Today I attended Dr. Jamali and Dr. Ghaddar |