Graduate Student Digital Teaching Portfolios:
Preparing Tomorrow's Faculty

IDS6513 is our face-to-face course on teaching at the college level that is open to all UCF Graduate Students. GTAs in the Preparing Tomorrow’s Faculty (PTF) course meet weekly and this course is taught by Faculty Center staff. Texts are provided, and the course is free to all graduate students.

The final product for the Faculty Center's PTF course is the production of a teaching portfolio to prepare our students for academic positions.

Course modules:

-Student learning and motivation

-Integrated course design

-Teaching pedagogies

-Assessment and feedback

-Course climate

-Career development

What is a Digital Teaching Portfolio?

E-Portfolio Alignment to Annual Evaluation Standards and Procedures and Academic Learning Compacts

Purposes to Prepare a Digital Teaching Portfolio

The Reflective Value of a Digital Teaching Portfolio

Demonstrating Course Design Artifacts

Portfolios can offer a look at development over time, helping one see teaching as an ongoing process of inquiry, experimentation, and reflection.

Teaching portfolios capture evidence of one’s entire teaching career, in contrast to course portfolios that capture evidence related to a single course

Peter Seldin is Distinguished Professor of Management Emeritus at Pace University in Pleasantville, New York. In his book, he outlines the process of creating a digital teaching portfolio, inclusive of:

•A collection of materials that document teaching performance

•Includes a professor’s most significant teaching accomplishments

•An effective portfolio consists of documents supported by empirical evidence

•Thoughtfully chosen information of teaching activities along with evidence of effectiveness

•Gives a well-rounded picture of teaching efficacy

•Alignment to AESP to specific college and ALC for the department, as each college at UCF has criteria for the Annual Evaluation Standards and Procedures (AESP).

•The content consists of the primary performance measures outlined for annual faculty evaluations.

•The objective is to provide productivity measures and expectations of faculty performance

•These measures are intended to move the department forward and foster national recognition.

Backward Design is vital as we assist our graduate students in creating their E-Portfolios and selecting the artifacts they will display to align with ultimate goals.

•As an analytical self-reflection designed to enhance your teaching

•To document your effectiveness as a teacher

•To enable you to strengthen the relationship between your teaching and research

•As supporting evidence of your professional expertise

•To present specific data for tenure and promotion committees

•To provide evidence of applications for grants

•To apply for teaching awards

•Employment application

•To provide evidence for post-tenure review

•The university provides promotional pathways for tenured, tenure-earning, and non-tenured earning faculty.

•Candidates must demonstrate meritorious performance in assigned teaching, research, and service.

Thinking about the ultimate learning outcomes is the first step as we guide our graduate students in the development of their E-Portfolios.

Digital Portfolios As A Way To Organize Dossier Content

Assignment Example: Teaching Philosophy

•Your conception of teaching and learning

•A description of how you teach

•Justification for why you teach that way

•Educational purpose and learning goals for students

•Your teaching methods

•Methods for assessing students’ learning

•Interactions with students and classroom atmosphere

•Assessment and feedback

•Plans for improving teaching in relation to changes in higher education

Assignment Example: Curriculum Vitae

C.V. example to demonstrate in E-Portfolio

•Education (reverse chronology present to undergrad)

•Professional experience (teaching and research)

•Publications and presentations

•Honors, awards, grants, fellowships, scholarships

•Professional training, certifications, and licenses

•Professional affiliations

•Service summary (university, department, professional)

•Skills, languages, activities

•References

Graduate Student Digital Teaching Portfolios: Preparing Tomorrow's Faculty

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