Suggested contents of a teaching portfolio

Adapted from Gibbs, 1992.

Educational aims and objectives

• What are you trying to achieve in your teaching?
• What philosophy/values underpin(s) your practice?

Teaching methods

• What is the range and level of your teaching?
• How does your choice of methods achieve the aims and objectives outlined above?
• What course materials and other resources have you prepared?
• How do you contact students beyond scheduled class time and how available are you to them?
• How do you identify problem areas and what strategies do you use in response?
• How do you work collaboratively/as part of a team?

Assessment

• How do you assess your students and give them feedback?
• What strategies do you use so that the assessment contributes to student learning?
• How reliable an indicator do you think your marks are? On what do you base this?

Evidence of the outcomes of teaching

• What have students learned? (eg grades, progress to more advanced courses/employment, unsolicited letters of thanks identifying learning outcomes, feedback from your peers, external examiner's reports)
• What have your students achieved? (eg examples of outstanding work, work where your teaching has led to significant growth, student publications, awards and exhibitions)

Evaluation evidence

• How do you collect student feedback?
• How are the courses you teach evaluated?
• What do you do in response?

Evidence of the continued study of teaching and learning

• What courses have you attended that have developed your teaching? How?
• What have you written/published about teaching?
• Do you belong to and contribute to a professional society concerned with teaching?
• How do you contribute to teaching development within your school/faculty/institution?

What is a teaching portfolio?
Readings and references on teaching portfolio

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