The Teaching Portfolio (Final project)
One day, you will be on the market for a job and proof of the work you do now - both in its amount and excellence will become invaluable. Increasingly, more employers are requiring a Teaching Portfolio for those entering into the academic community. This provides both an assesment of your previous experience and your professionalism towards the field. Other employers which aren't academic, are most interested in those potential hirees that show excellent teamwork skills and an ability to interface with diverse groups of people. A teaching portfolio can give them a glimpse of the training that you have had.
the Teaching Portfolio is composed by you. Its your responsibility to keep the feedback you get on your teaching from both the faculty and the students. After teaching a course, usually on the last day, feedback forms will be given to the students. They are returned directly to the university and after the university has had a time to look at them, they will be summarized and given to you in an annonymous format. Keep these and include them in your portfolio.
The first step is creating a Teaching Philosophy - usually a one page explanantion of how you view teaching and your own personal philosophy of going about it. Read literature on teaching styles. Look at other examples of teaching philosophies but create your own. A person recently lost a potential job because the philosophy they included was plagarized from another on the web. Dont do that - its your own personal touch that makes it genuine.
Collect the following materials, as you get them, into a folder. When it is fully compiled, create a title page and outline (with page numbers) that looks somewhat like the following:
Teaching Portfolio
