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Teaching Portfolio is generally seen to be a short document of some 5-8 pages which will include references to the Archive which provides the substantiati on for your case. Some portfolios may include examples of particularly pertinent artifacts. It is important that you familiarize yourself with the particular cr iteria generated by your faculty or university.
See Sample Portfolio Guidelines.
Read through What is Scholarly Teaching Practice Matrix to review what constitute scholarly teaching, how it appears as practice and how it can be documented.
Review your own teaching practice. Download the Scholarly Teaching Matrix template and use it to describe your own teaching practice.
Carefully reflect on and evaluate what you have written. Identify the areas for improvement. Remember that the What is Scholarly Teaching Practice Matrix is describing the perfect score card for an experienced teacher. This is the destination to which you are headed.
What aspects can you currently demonstrate?; List them.
These will form the basis of your Presentation of yourself as a scholarly teacher.
What else do you need to do to get there?; Identify some ideas and plans.
This will form the basis for your teaching planning and for your own professional development planning.
You may decide to institute some inquiries into your teaching, such as
You may decide to write an account of your response to the student learning literature and its impact on your teaching, your approach to curriculum development, assessment strategies, feedback to students and response to their feedback to you.
In addition to the activities listed above reference to many of the exercises in the Peer Review section of the Module can assist you review your teaching practice and further develop your scholarship of teaching whilst develop ing documentation for inclusions in your teaching archive. The activities identified in the Peer review unit have been designed to undertake with a colleague because we believe that they are best carried out collaboratively, they could be undertaken individually.
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These materials become attachments, samples and reports that illustrate the activities that you undertake as part of your every day practice in enabling your students to learn. They will form your Teaching Archive
In addition to the activities listed above which will contribute to the development of your understanding of your teaching practice you may decide to undertake an accredited program, engage in a systematic reading process, or undertake some of the other units provided in the Module, Communicating the Scholarship of Teaching, etc.
This planning is an important aspect of your scholarship as a teacher and should be referred to within the portfolio and filed in your archive.