Educators Portfolio

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Educators Portfolio

• Gloria J. Kuhn, DO, Ph.D
• Wayne State University

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Overview

• Definition
• Teaching Portfolio
• Educators Portfolio
• Uses
• Content
• Construction

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Teaching PortfolioDefinition

• It is a factual description of a professor's
  teaching strengths and accomplishments.
• Peter Seldin

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Teaching PortfolioDefinition

• Coherent set of materials
• Include work samples and reflective commentary on
  them
• Princeton Dept of Education

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Teaching PortfolioDefinition

• Compiled by a faculty member to represent his or
  her teaching practice
• Related to student learning and development
• Princeton Dept of Education

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Teaching PortfolioDefinition

• A summary of a professor's major teaching
  accomplishments and strengths. It is to a
  professor's teaching what lists of publications,
  grants, and academic honors are to research.
• Canadian Association of University Teachers

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Educators Portfolio

• The Educator's Portfolio is a collection of
  materials documenting educational activity and
  scholarship--like an artist's portfolio.
• OHSU

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Educators Portfolio

• The common element is that the picture can be
  viewed, reviewed, updated and valued as evidence
  of educational scholarship.
• OHSU

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Teaching Portfolio

• purpose of a portfolio is to make significant
  chunks of what educators do available for peer
  review. Only when we have something to value,
  will we have something to evaluatecannot value
  something that we cannot share, exchange, and
  examine.
• Lee Shulman

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Critical Action

• Determine your institutions requirements
• None
• Desirable
• Portfolio
• Portfolio with specified format

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Need ?

• Problems in Faculty Evaluation
• 1 Evaluation of Teaching
• Methods
• Measures
• Lack of Uniformity in
• process / criteria
• - Link P / T Jones 92

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Problem

• Sporadic
• No evaluation
• Non objective evaluation
• Negative evaluations only
• Vague criteria for P / T
• No recognition, no reward for teaching
• Jones 92

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Problem

• Student Evaluations
• Popularity
• Entertainment value
• Lack of Documented Peer Review
• Informal Teaching not Documented
• Jones 92

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Problem

• My own personal file has not a single evaluation
  of my educational efforts by students or house
  staff.
• Jones 92

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Problem

• Faculty evaluation in our institution ranges
  from thorough and constructive to inadequate and
  arbitrary, depending on the particular department
  and department chair involved.

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Problem

• It was only much later (actually four years
  later), when it was time to begin preparing my
  tenure/promotion application, that I was given a
  description of the criteria from the university.

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Culture

• Mysterious
• Controlled
• No reward
• Faculty left
• Administration alarmed

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P / T Committee

• No evidence
• Scant evidence
• Standards
• Grants
• Publications
• Peer Review

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Portfolio

• Here I come to save the day.

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Community

• RRC
• Faculty Development Plan
• Customized Plan

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Community

• Management of Career

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Potential

• Control of process and product is placed in
  hands of faculty
• Faculty member quickly aware of problems

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Potential

• Time for restructuring
• Loss of too little, too late syndrome

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Uses

• Archive
• Yearly Evaluation (Formative)
• Money
• Accomplishments
• Goals

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Uses

• Yearly Evaluation (Formative)
• Improvement
• Sense of Accomplishment / satisfaction
• Spur to action

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Process

• Manage Career
• Reflect on successes / failures
• Find gaps

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Process

• Decide goals
• Force Chair
• Time
• Resources
• On track?

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Format

• Binder
• File on Computer
• CD rom

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Contents

• Teaching Awards/Honors
• Curriculum/Courses Designed/Coordinated

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Contents

• Educational Committees
• Lectures
• Workshops/Seminars/Panels
• Service

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Contents

• Activity
• Involvement
• Time
• Product
• Evaluation
• Worth

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Contents

• Courses Taught/Curricula Developed
• Committees
• Teaching Materials
• Students Advised
• Clinical Supervision

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Contents

• Mentoring/Advising
• Educational Courses Attended
• Resources
• Simpson
• Seldin

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Make a Portfolio
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Philosophy of Teaching

• Goals
• Expertise
• Instructional Design
• Instructional Delivery
• Evidence of Student Learning
• Continuous Learning Environment

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Reflect
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Promotion

• Find a mentor / critic
• Look at success
• Know rules
• Show case

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Promotion

• Expertise
• Recognition of Peers
• Local, Regional, National, International
• Past Value
• Future Value

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Educators Portfolio

• Ultimate Value ?

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• Onerous Busy Work
• Ability to Manage Career
• Gain Recognition

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Value

• My chair just e-mailed me that I need to
  prepare my folder for the P / T Committee. What
  should I put in it?
• 2000

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CD-Rom