The Teaching Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions

Wilbert J. McKeachie

Peter Seldin

J. Elizabeth Miller

Clement A. Seldin

Jossey-Bass

Thoroughly revised and updated, this fourth edition of the classic hands-on resource offers a comprehensive review of all the facets developing teaching portfolios. This new edition will contain new perspectives and ideas; an expanded section on web-based electronic teaching portfolios ; a sample of colleges and universities that shows how they have implemented portfolios; real-world teaching portfolios of twenty-one faculty members and a report from a university provost on what he looks for in a portfolios submitted for promotion.

The Teaching Portfolio : A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion Tenure Decisions

Anker Pub Co.

This comprehensive book focuses squarely on academic portfolios, which may prove to be the most innovative and promising faculty evaluation and development technique in years. The authors identify key issues, red flag warnings, and benchmarks for success, describing the what, why, and how of developing academic portfolios. The book includes an extensively tested step-by-step approach to creating portfolios and lists 21 possible portfolio items covering teaching, research/scholarship, and service from which faculty can choose the ones most relevant to them. The thrust of this book is unique: <ul> <li>It provides time-tested strategies and proven advice for getting started with portfolios.</li> <li>It includes a research-based rubric grounded in input from 200 faculty members and department chairs from across disciplines and institutions.</li> <li>It examines specific guiding questions to consider when preparing every subsection of the portfolio.</li> <li>It presents 18 portfolio models from 16 different academic disciplines.</li> </ul> Designed for faculty members, department chairs, deans, and members of promotion and tenure committees, all of whom are essential partners in developing successful academic portfolio programs, the book will also be useful to graduate students, especially those planning careers as faculty members.

The Academic Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Documenting Teaching, Research, and Service

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