CIDR - Teaching Portfolio Resources

Developing a Teaching Portfolio provides instructors with a powerful means to document their teaching practices, philosophies, and performances. A living document, the teaching portfolio serves as a guidepost showing where a teacher has been and has still yet to go.

Teaching portfolios can help you reflect on your teaching and examine the development of your teaching over time, and can also be used to represent your teaching to others as you apply for jobs, grants, awards, or promotion and tenure.

CIDR Resources

	CIDR Teaching and Learning Bulletins Developing a Teaching Portfolio CIDR Teaching and Learning Bulletin, 1(1). Writing a Teaching Statement CIDR Teaching and Learning Bulletin, 7(2).

	CIDR Web Guides Writing Tips to Help You Get Started Suggestions to help you find your ideas and put them into words, designed to help develop both your teaching statement and annotations that you add to the evidence you include with your teaching portfolio Sources of Data for Assessment of Teaching “sources of information to consider when you are assessing your teaching, and links to ways that CIDR can help you gather and work with information from each source”

	Consult with CIDR CIDR staff are available to consult with you on developing your teaching portfolio, review drafts of your teaching statement, and select materials to include in the portfolio. See our Consulting pages on developing a teaching portfolio for more information. To schedule a consultation, call 206-543-6588, or contact us by email to arrange an appointment.

UW Resources

Building Diversity into Your Teaching Portfolio
a resource developed by the Curriculum Transformation Project at the University of Washington

Teaching Portfolio Guidelines
from the University of Washington Faculty Council on Instructional Quality (FCIQ)

Close Reading Shakespeare: A Course Portfolio
by John Webster (1999), University of Washington Department of English

Additional Resources

Developing a Teaching Philosophy Statement
from the Office of Faculty and TA Development at The Ohio State University

The Teaching Portfolio
from the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning at Brown University. This site provides an overview of teaching portfolios and sample tables of contents for teaching portfolios

Teaching Portfolios
from the Center for Effective Teaching and Learning, University of Texas at El Paso.

How to Produce a Teaching Portfolio
extracts from Peter Seldin's (1997) book, The Teaching Portfolio - A practical guide to improved performance and promotion / tenure decisions (2nd ed.).

If you've got it, flaunt it: Uses and abuses of teaching portfolios
by Richard Felder and Rebecca Brent. Chemical Engineering Education, 30(3), 188-189 (Summer, 1996).

Promoting a Culture of Teaching: The Teaching Portfolio
Speaking of Teaching, 7(3), from the Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford University (1996).

The Teaching Portfolio
by Matthew Kaplan. (1998). The University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT), Occasional Papers, No. 11.

Writing a Statement of Teaching Philosophy for the Academic Job Search
by Chris O'Neal, Deborah Meizlish, and Matthew Kaplan. (2007). The University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT), Occasional Papers, No. 23.

Sample Teaching Portfolios for a Variety of Disciplines
Center for Effective Teaching and Learning at the University of Texas - El Paso.

Sample Teaching Statements
by University of Michigan TAs representing a wide range of disciplines

The Course Portfolio

Handbook for Creating Course Portfolios
A pdf document from the Engineering Learning Center at the University of Wisconsin - Madison

Available in the CIDR Reading Room

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Cambridge, B. L. (Ed.). (2001). Electronic portfolios: Emerging practices in student, faculty, and institutional learning. Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education.

Cerbin, W. (2001). Course portfolios: to preserve and refine good teaching ideas. The Teaching Professor, 15(7), 2-3.

Glassick, C., Huber, M. T., & Maeroff, G. (1997). Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass.

Hutchings, P. (Ed.). (1998). The Course Portfolio: How Faculty Can Examine Their Teaching to Advance Practice and Improve Student Learning. Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education.

Lambert, L. M. (1996). Building a Professional Portfolio. In L. M. Lambert, S. L. Tice, & P. H. Featherstone (Eds.), University teaching: A guide for graduate students (pp. 147-155). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

Seldin, P. (2004). The teaching portfolio: A practical guide to improved performance and promotion/tenure decisions (3rd ed.). Bolton, MA: Anker.

Seldin, P., & Associates. (1993). Successful Use of Teaching Portfolios. Bolton, MA: Anker.

Weimer, M. (Ed.). (2001). Course portfolios: To preserve and refine good teaching ideas. The Teaching Professor, 15(7), 2, 3.