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Teaching Portfolios Presented by: Ed Zalneritis, M.D. The Teaching Portfolio is a factual description of a teacher's major strengths and teaching achievements. It documents materials, which collectively display a teachers scope and quality of teaching performance. (Seldin 1991). They are useful for promotion, career planning, and self-evaluation. Initiate the portfolio after defining what your Department Chair's teaching expectations of you are. Having a mentor to guide you will be useful. Keep it 5-10 pages in length with an additional appendix of supportive material. Organization: Start with a simple statement of your philosophy for teaching, (not the specific objectives) but your general motivations. Delineate your teaching responsibilities: List all courses / lectures / contact sessions / advisor role / committees / workshops... Keep track of #learners per week or per contact Identify the content of the session and the time involved Define the role this activity has within the medical school and departmental curriculum Review pre and post activity surveys of your performance Catalogue your activities and outcomes, goals achieved, evaluations Accentuate your Teaching leadership role and Advisory role regionally, nationally, internationally. Maintain a catalogue of materials you have created, feedback materials from others, honors and awards, and outcome measures. Continue to update Letters of Attestation: Evaluations: from students, residents, advisees, and committee members who can attest to your teaching ability Letters: from Chair and other faculty to attest to your teaching contributions Outcome measures may include: Comparative scores pre and post your teaching intervention Student projects completed and publications, syllabi, program enhancements thereof Student career choices influenced by your teaching Institutional and National exam score effects Alumni comments Keep the material organized and updated. Compile all supporting documentation in chronological order as an Appendix. Use the portfolio to review your teaching goals and progress. Incorporate feedback to improve your teaching abilities Summarized by F. DiMario