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The Teaching Portfolio
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A teaching portfolio is a tool of professional development that provides you with a way to showcase how, why, and how well you teach currently, as well as demonstrate your potential to further develop your teaching skills. Although it has little effect on history department grad students' ranking for departmental funding, it is a required part of the annual funding application for most grad students. Here are some guides, suggestions, and resources you can use to assemble and then polish your teaching portfolio so that, when the time comes to look for that academic job, you'll have something that reflects you're ability to teach.
Building your teaching portfolio Source/Contributor: Tim Wright, Lead TA Date: Winter 2008 Format: PDF This is a five-page handout prepared for the annual teaching portfolio workshop. Its section headings are "Purpose," "Components of a Teaching Portfolio," "Plan Ahead," "A Word about Tone and Writing Style," "Format and Presentation," "Departmental Statements about Teaching Portfolios," "Final Thought," and "Some Selected Additional Reading." Teaching Portfolio Workshop Source/Contributor: Robert Cruickshank, Lead TA Date: Winter 2007 Format: PDF Three-page handout put together for the annual teaching portfolio workshop. It begins with a checklist of the typical elements of a teach portfolio; covers different ways to present a portfolio, including setting up a web portfolio; and concludes with helpful links. Additional Resources: "Developing a Teaching Portfolio"CIDR http://depts.washington.edu/cidrweb/portfolio/index.html Betty Dessants, "Graduate Students Forum: Preparing the Teaching Portfolio," AHA Perspectives, September 2003. http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2003/0309/0309for2.cfm Frederick D. Drake and Lawrence W. McBride, "The Summative Teaching Portfolio and the Reflective Practitioner of History," The History Teacher, November 2000. http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/34.1/drake.html "PhDs Teaching Portfolio"UC Berkeley Career Center http://career.berkeley.edu/PhDs/PhDportfolio.stm "CVs, Cover Letters & Teaching Portfolios," Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CDC/graphics/pdfs/CV_covlets.pdf UW Career Center Academic Job Search http://depts.washington.edu/careers/gradstudents/academicjobsearch |
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