The Teaching Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions, 3rd Edition

by Peter Seldin (Lubin School of Business Pace University, Pleasantville, New York)

• ISBN13: 9781882982691
• ISBN10: 188298269X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

A teaching portfolio is a collection of materials that document teaching performance. It brings together in one place information about a professor's most significant teaching accomplishments. It can be used for tenure and promotion decisions or to provide the stimulus for self-reflection about areas for teaching improvement.Approximately 2,000 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada now use teaching portfolios, and they are gaining increasing popularity worldwide. Since the publication of the first edition of this best-selling guide, tens of thousands of faculty have used it to prepare teaching portfolios.This third edition continues its focus on self-reflection and documenting teaching performance, and has also been significantly revised and expanded. Its straightforward approach, practical suggestions, step-by-step instructions, and field-tested recommendations will prove invaluable to those involved in evaluating and improving teaching.Now organized into five parts, this edition includes new information on web-based electronic teaching portfolios, descriptions of how seven colleges and universities have actually implemented portfolios, and 22 new sample teaching portfolios from an array of disciplines from accounting to theatre arts and a variety of institutions from large public universities to urban technological schools.The book also includes An expanded list of 31 possible items that might appear in portfolios An enhanced section on the process of self-reflection A new section on cautions to consider in preparing a portfolio New suggestions for updating portfolios New resources for portfolio development New red-flag warnings and benchmarks for success Ways to differentiate between portfolios created for personnel decisions and those created for teaching improvement

Author Biography

PETER SELDIN is Distinguished Professor of Management at pace University in Pleasantville, New York. A Behavioral scientist,, educator, author, and specialist in the evaluation and development of faculty and administrative performance, he has been a consultant on higher education issues to more than 300 colleges and universities throughout the United States and 40 countries around the world.
A well-known speaker at national and international conference, Seldin regularly serves as a faculty leader in programs offered by the American council on Education, the American Association for Higher Education, and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
His well-received books include:The Administrative Portfolio (2002, with Mary Lou Higgerson); Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching (1999, with associates); The Teaching Portfolio, second edition (1997); Improving College Teaching (1995, with associates); Successful Use of Teaching Portfolios (1993, with associates); The Teaching Portfolio (1991); How Administrators Can Improve Teaching (1990, with associates); Evaluating and Developing Administrative Performance (1988); Coping with Faculty Stress (1987, with associates); Changing Practices in faculty Evaluation (1984); Successful Faculty Evaluation Programs (1980); Teaching Professors to Teach (1977); How College Evaluate Professors (1975).
He has contributed to numerous articles on the teaching profession, student ratings, educational practice, and academic culture to such publications as The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change magazine. For his contributions to the scholarship of teaching, he has received honorary degrees from Keystone College (Pennsylvania) and Columbia College (South Carolina).

Table of Contents

About the Author	v
About the Contributors	vi
Preface	xiv
Part I: The Teaching Portfolio: Purpose, Process, and Product
Peter Seldin
The Teaching Portfolio	2	(3)
Preparing the Teaching Portfolio	5	(5)
Choosing Items for the Teaching Portfolio	10	(5)
Using the Teaching Portfolio	15	(8)
Answers to Common Questions About the Teaching Portfolio	23	(13)
Part II: Electronic Teaching Portfolios
Making Good Work Public Through Electronic Teaching Portfolios	36	(16)
Susan Kahn
Part III: How Portfolios Are Used in Seven Institutions
The Teaching Portfolio Program at Drexel University	52	(9)
Teck-Kah Lim
Using Multiple Pathways to Foster Portfolio Development at Miami University of Ohio	61	(10)
Milton D. Cox
Developing and Implementing the Teaching Portfolio at Oxford College of Emory University	71	(6)
Myra Frady
Teaching Portfolios at Pace University: A Culture in Transition	77	(7)
Linda Anstendig
Constance A. Knapp
The Teaching Portfolio at Rutgers University	84	(8)
Monica A. Devanas
Teaching Portfolios at Texas A&M University: Reflections on a Decade of Practice	92	(9)
Nancy J. Simpson
Jean E.L. Layne
Teaching Portfolios at the University of Evansville	101	(11)
Tamara L. Wandel
Part IV: Keeping the Portfolio Current
John Zubizarreta
Strategies for Updating and Improving the Teaching Portfolio	112	(6)
Key Points on Teaching Portfolio Revisions and Updates	118	(15)
Part V: Sample Portfolios From Across Disciplines
Accounting
Joseph G. Donelan, University of West Florida	133	(9)
Bioscience and Biotechnology
Shivanthi Anandan, Drexel University	142	(9)
Communication Studies/Communication Sciences and Disorders
Abbey L. Berg, Pace University	151	(8)
Kathleen A. McDonough, State University of New York College at Fredonia	159	(9)
Classical Languages and Literature
Bridget Thomas, Truman State University	168	(9)
Design, Merchandising, and Textiles
Sally L. Fortenberry, Texas Christian University	177	(11)
Education
Amy E. Seldin, Westfield State College	188	(8)
Clement A. Seldin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst	196	(8)
English
Mary Barrows, Barton County Community College	204	(9)
Jane Collins, Pace University	213	(11)
Saundra K. Liggins, State University of New York College at Fredonia	224	(7)
Alan Shepard, University of Guelph	231	(10)
Geology
Stephen W. Henderson, Oxford College of Emory University	241	(10)
Instructional and Performance Technology
Karen L. Rasmussen, University of West Florida	251	(10)
Mathematics
William J. Robinson, Barton County Community College	261	(9)
Janet Liou-Mark, New York City College of Technology	270	(12)
Music
Kay L. Edwards, Miami University	282	(12)
Nursing
Kathryn A. Ballou, University of Missouri, Kansas City	294	(11)
Physics
Curtis C. Bradley, Texas Christian University	305	(8)
Religion
Barbara A.B. Patterson, Emory University	313	(9)
Sociology
Arthur B. Shostak, Drexel University	322	(11)
Theatre Arts
Margaret Mitchell, University of the Incarnate Word	333	(11)
Bibliography	344	(3)
Index	347