Items that might be included in a teaching portfolio

Roles, Responsibilities, and Goals:

• A statement of teaching roles and responsibilities
• A reflective statement of teaching goals and approaches
• A list of courses taught, with enrollments and comments as to if new, team-taught, etc.
• Number of advisees, grad and undergrad
  

Contributions to Institution or Profession:

• Service on teaching committees
• Development of student apprentice programs
• Assistance to colleagues on teaching
• Review of texts, etc.
• Publications in teaching journals
• Work on curriculum revision or development
• Obtaining funds/ equipment for teaching labs, programs
• Provision of training in teaching for graduate students
  

Activities to Improve Instruction:

• Participation in seminars or professional meeting on teaching
• Design of new courses
• Design of interdisciplinary or collaborative courses or teaching projects
• Use of new methods of teaching, assessing learning, grading
• Preparation of a textbook, courseware, etc.
• Description of instructional improvement projects developed or carried out
  

Honors or Recognitions:

• Teaching awards from department, school
• Teaching awards from profession
• Invitations based on teaching reputation to consult, give workshops, write articles, etc.
• Requests for advice on teaching by committees or other organized groups
  

Representative Course Materials:

• Syllabi
• Course descriptions with details of content, objectives, methods, and procedures for evaluating student learning
• Reading lists
• Assignments
• Exams and quizzes, graded and ungraded
• Handouts, problem sets, lecture outlines
• Descriptions and examples of visual materials used
• Descriptions of uses of computer or other technology in teaching
  

Materials Showing Extent of Student Learning:

• Scores on standardized or other tests, before and after instruction
• Students' lab books, or other workbooks
• Students' papers, essays or creative works
• Graded work from the best and poorest students with teacher's feedback to students
• Instructors' written feedback on student work
  

Evaluations of Teaching:

• Summarized student evaluations of teaching, including response rate and students' written comments and overall ratings
• Results of students' exit interviews
• Letters from students, preferably unsolicited
• Comments from a peer observer or colleague teaching the same course
• Letter from division head or chairperson
  

Miscellaneous Sources on Teaching Effectiveness:

• Comments from students' parents or employers
• Statements from colleagues in the department or elsewhere, re: preparation of students for advanced work

For other ideas on items to include in a teaching portfolio, go to http://www.arches.uga.edu/~major/items.html