Learning and Teaching Portfolios'
What is it?
A Teaching Portfolio is a compilation of information about an academic’s learning, teaching, and professional practice often for use in consideration for tenure or promotion. It provides documented evidence of teaching and academic achievement from a variety of sources such as curriculum documents, samples of student work, self-reflections, reports on classroom research, and professional development activities. The term 'Learning and Teaching Portfolio' is sometimes also used to describe a method of assessing students' learning achivements.
Teaching portfolios usually consist of four parts containing information about:
- Teaching responsibilities
- Teaching philosophy
- Examples of the application of teaching philosophy
- Evidence of academic accomplishments
Why use it?
The Swinburne University of Technology promotions policy requires all candidates to prepare portfolios that provide evidence of experience in teaching, research, relevant experiences outside tertiary education, creative achievement, professional contribution and/or technical achievement, scholarship and contribution to the achievement of the Swinburne strategic direction and priorities.
While candidates are expected to provide evidence of outstanding achievement in either scholarship, teaching or research; the assessment of portfolios takes into account a candidate's overall contribution to their Discipline, their Faculty, the Division and to the University as a whole.
Portfolios are also increasingly being used as a vehicle for the presentation and assessment of student learning and performance in the form of clear and specific artifacts and items of evidence which can be easily evaluated and internally and externally validated.
Also known as dossiers, folios, ePortfolios and profiles, the teaching portfolio is an effective way for teachers to reflect upon, describe, and document their teaching philosophy, goals, and achievements.
See also
The official promotions policy for academic staff at Swinburne University of Technology
Promotion Policy - Academic staff
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