The Teaching Portfolio: Applying Research Strategies to Communicate the Quality of Your Teaching
This event is part of The Scholarship of Teaching: A Workshop Series for Graduate Students.
Description
As a graduate student applying for awards and on the job market, you will need to compile evidence of teaching effectiveness to share with others. In fact, in all kinds of academic positions, it is essential to know how to collect data about your teaching, analyze that data effectively, and use the portfolio format to make a compelling argument about the quality of your teaching. In this interactive, practical workshop, you will apply strategies often used in research settings in order to plan your own successful teaching portfolio that you can use in a job search and maintain over the course of your academic career.
Goals
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Describe the possible purposes and contents of a teaching portfolio;
- Operationalize teaching effectiveness in your own practice in order to identify evidence in support of the assertion that you are an effective teacher;
- Develop a plan for a teaching portfolio that enriches your own teaching, sets you up for success on the job market and for job promotion, and serves as a jumping off point for publishing scholarship on teaching.
Presented by Stacey Margarita Johnson, Vanderbilt University
Stacey Margarita Johnson is Assistant Director at the Center for Teaching. She also holds an appointment as a Senior Lecturer of Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, is Affiliated Faculty in the Center for Second Language Studies, and has been Adjunct Faculty in Peabody College’s Masters program in English Language Learners.