The Teaching Portfolio

Mapping your impact as an educator

At the end of this workshop you will be able to

• identify uses of portfolios for your own professional use and use in the classroom by designing and developing your own.

• begin to design and develop your own professional profile portfolios with the tool of your choice.

• create your professional brand with a logo and power sentence (tagline) for your portfolio.

• grow a grassroots Portfolio and Digital Media Community of Practice at your university.

What’s the difference between a professional website and an ePortfolio?A collection of purposefully organized artifacts that support retrospective and prospective reflection to document, augment, and assess growth over time. -Dr. Helen L. Chen, Stanford University

Design Thinking – Stanford dSchool – dschool.standford.edu

Applying what we learn in the classroom to real world experiences in our lives.

Design Thinking – Stanford dSchool – dschool.standford.edu

EMPATHY

Documenting You for You

Portfolio Success

Uses for a Teaching ePortfolioScaffolding and Connecting Innovations in Teaching and Learning

• Your own virtual makersplace for building learning experiences (think tank)

• Self-reflection designed to enhance your teaching (growth)

• Document your effectiveness as a teacher (organize and connect your materials)

• Enable you to strengthen the relationship between your teaching and research

• Supporting evidence of your professional expertise (tenure and promotion)

• A developing draft document that helps beginning faculty clarify the whys and hows of your teaching

• Repository of learning and topic specific resources

• Connection with your students

• A legacy for your department

• A legacy for you

Include the Student Perspective

Forget devices, the future of education technology is all about the cloud and anywhere access. In the future, teaching and learning is going to be social.Matt Britland , The Guardian, 19 June 2013, retrieved fromhttp://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2013/jun/19/technology-future-education-cloud-social-learning

Examples

• Blogfolio – liftinglearning.com, Nancy Wozniak

• Writing and Digital Media Teaching Portfolio – Cynthia Davidson

• Writing for the New Media Course – Cynthia Davidson’s Course Portfolio

• Standouts – Nancy Wozniak Instructional Design and Teaching Showcase

• Performance – Rachel Koeth

• For more see Spotlight on ePortfolios at Stony Brook University

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Components of a Teaching PortfolioA lifelong digital footprint of you(use multimedia to visual represent your artifacts)

• Documentation of Your Teaching

• Professional Development

• Teaching Effectiveness

• Materials Demonstrating Student Learning

• Activities to Improve Instruction

• Contributions to the Teaching Profession

• Articles and Presentations

• Honors, Awards, and Recognitions

• Recommendations from students or positive course evaluations

• Campus Involvement, Community Service, Personal Interests

The sentences are personal brands.  From one sentence, we form a first impression of the person. What was your favorite sentence in this video and what impression did you form of that person?

Dan Pink’s What’s Your Sentence?

What’s your sentence?

  Compose your own power sentence that represents your professional strength...one simple catch phrase based on what you stand for and what's important to you.  Make it your brand, your tagline, and add it to your Welcome Page with your logo. Ask yourself, "100 years from now, in one sentence, how would I want people to describe me?"  

Next, put it in an active, present tense and add your logo (brand identity) 

Example  He was a committed activist who was instrumental in changing the erratic driving behaviors on Long Island.Now change it to the present tense.I am a committed activist who has been instrumental in changing the erratic driving behaviors on Long Island.

Logo – Your Professional Brandwordle at wordle.net

Just the Facts

• Create an About Me page or section in your portfolio

• bullet point or number 5 facts that reflect your strength of character, passion, achievements, interests, mission and/or goals.   

• Vary the 5 facts to cover different areas of your life.  

• Document your holistic self.  You don't have to reveal too much about yourself.  Keep it generic and creative.  

• Include multimedia.  Make it visual.Vishwaja Muppa - https://stonybrook.digication.com/vishwaja_muppa/About_Me

Educational Philosophy and Teaching Goals

Your Thoughts About Teaching

• A reflective “teaching statement” describing your personal teaching philosophy, strategies, and objectives

• A personal statement describing your teaching goals for the next few years

• Strategies and future plans for personal, teaching, and course development

Why do you teach?

• Tell a story.

• Use an image to frame your passion for learning?

• Work towards presenting it in a digital story.

Nancy Wozniak’s Discovery Story- Why I teach.