Developing your Teaching Portfolio

Intended Audience:

This session is for all academic and sessional teaching staff at UWA.

Workshop Description:

Effective teaching is a central aspect of an academic career at UWA. This workshop will focus on the criteria and evidence that can be included in a teaching portfolio and used for PDR and promotion. You will leave this session confident and eager to make a start on your own portfolio.

Intended Outcomes:

At the end of the session, you will:

• be confident about the process involved to construct a teaching portfolio.
• begin to formulate ideas that can be incorporated into you personal teaching philosophy
• know what counts as evidence of your experience and how it can best be collected and presented.
• be aware of ways in which a well constructed portfolio can be used for a variety of purposed including as a reflective tool to improve your teaching.

Key Activities:

• Group and paired discussions
• Examination of exemplars
• Beginning to write elements of your own portfolio

Duration:

3 hours

Date and Time:

• Tuesday 3 March 2009, 9.00am - 12noon
• Monday 10 August 2009, 9.00am - 12noon

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Love House, 28 Broadway, Crawley (Cnr of Cooper Street)

Facilitator:

Denise Chalmers, Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, UWA