The Teaching Portfolio A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions

by Seldin, Peter; Miller, J. Elizabeth; Seldin, Clement A.; McKeachie, Wilbert

• ISBN13: 9780470538098
• ISBN10: 0470538090
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-30
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Thoroughly revised and updated, this fourth edition of the classic hands-on resource offers a comprehensive review of all the facets developing teaching portfolios. This new edition will contain new perspectives and ideas; an expanded section on web-based electronic teaching portfolios ; a sample of colleges and universities that shows how they have implemented portfolios; real-world teaching portfolios of twenty-one faculty members and a report from a university provost on what he looks for in a portfolios submitted for promotion.

Author Biography

Peter Seldin is Distinguished Professor of Management Emeritus at Pace University in Pleasantville, New York. He has been a consultant on higher education issues to more than 350 colleges and universities throughout the United States and in 45 countries around the world. He was named by the World Bank as a Visiting Scholar to Indonesia, and he was elected a fellow of the College of Preceptors in London, England. For his contributions to the scholarship of teaching, he has received honorary degrees from Keystone College and Columbia College (South Carolina).

J. Elizabeth Miller is Associate Professor of Family and Child Studies at Northern Illinois?University. Previously, she was the university director of the teaching assistant and training development office, where she established and ran the training program for more than 800 teaching assistants. She is the recipient of several teaching and service awards, and her research focuses on the interplay between feminist teaching and learner-centered teaching.

Clement A. Seldin is Professor of Education at the?University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has worked with Peter Seldin and Elizabeth Miller countless times as a mentor of faculty preparing their portfolios, a presenter at national conferences, and coauthor of books and journal articles. He has many years of portfolio experience and a?solid national reputation as practitioner.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Preface to the Fourth Edition	p. xiii
About the Authors	p. xix
About the Contributors	p. xxiii
The What, Why, and How of Teaching Portfolios	p. 1
An Introduction to the Teaching Portfolio	p. 3
Choosing Items for the Teaching Portfolio	p. 10
Preparing the Teaching Portfolio	p. 21
Steps to Creating a Teaching Portfolio	p. 26
The Importance of Collaboration	p. 31
Suggestions for Improving the Teaching Portfolio	p. 35
Evaluating the Teaching Portfolio	p. 41
Answers to Common Questions	p. 51
E-Portfolios for Teaching Improvement	p. 62
Clinical Education Portfolios	p. 71
How Portfolios are Used	p. 79
Teaching Portfolios at Loyola University Maryland	p. 81
Exploring the Future of Teaching Portfolios with Graduate Students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst	p. 88
Developing Teaching Portfolios at Elgin Community College: The Early Years	p. 96
Implementing the Teaching Portfolio at Florida Gulf Coast University	p. 102
Reviewing the Teaching Portfolio: Considerations from a Provost/Vice President of Academic Affairs	p. 109
Sample Portfolios from Across Disciplines	p. 119
Biological Sciences	p. 121
Chemistry and Biochemistry	p. 134
Chemistry and Mathematics	p. 149
Communication and Philosophy	p. 159
English and Communication	p. 171
Family and Consumer Sciences	p. 183
Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Ecology	p. 196
Government	p. 206
Justice Studies	p. 218
Law	p. 234
Music	p. 245
Nursing	p. 257
Pathology	p. 269
Physical Therapy	p. 282
Physics	p. 294
Physiology and Developmental Biology	p. 306
Political Science	p. 318
Psychology	p. 328
Social and Behavioral Sciences	p. 339
Social Work	p. 355
Theater	p. 363
References	p. 372
Index	p. 375
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