Teaching Portfolio

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Teaching Portfolio

• What is it?
• Why do I need one?
• How do I start?

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Complete the following sentence

• I do or I dont want to be promoted because..
  

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If you were hiring a new clinician-educator, what
credentials would you look for?
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CV
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Teaching Log

• A record of your educational activity
• List of what, who, how, and how much you teach
• Major categories
• Teaching
• Mentoring/Advising
• Educational Administration/Leadership

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Teaching Portfolio

• aka
• Educators Portfolio
• Teaching Dossier
• Promotion packet
• Faculty activities handbook

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Teaching Portfolio

• A record of your educational activity with
  evidence of its impact
• Highlights strengths and contributions
• Presentation of your accomplishments supported by
  relevant data
• Reflections on your teaching
• Your story of professional development as a
  teacher

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Teaching Portfolio

• Addresses the question
• How do I demonstrate that I am an
  effective teacher?
• Professional reflection on your teaching as a
  scholarly activity

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Why should I have one?

• Keeps all educational activity organized
• For application for promotion or tenure
• For job applications
• For annual review in current job
• To evaluate my effectiveness as a teacher
• For self-reflection and growth as educators

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Use of Teaching Portfolios in US Medical Schools
- Then

• 1992 survey of 126 medical schools
• Only 24 (19) used portfolio systems
• Simpson et al. Teaching Learn Med 1994

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And now

• Online search of 126 medical school websites
  200203 using key terms related to teaching
  portfolios (portfolio, dossier, etc.)
• phone interviews with individual primarily
  responsible for promotion
• Simpson, et al. Acad Med 2004

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Results

• 76 schools (64) had web-based information on
  documenting educational activities for promotion
• Of these 76 schools
• ½ had descriptions of what to include in the
  promotion packet
• ½ had examples of portfolios or instructions on
  how to complete one

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• Every faculty member should maintain a teaching
  portfolio that contains information regarding
  this aspect (teaching activities) of his/her
  career
• Faculty members who have achieved extraordinary
  distinction as educators and scholars in
  pedagogical topics may be promoted and awarded
  tenure on the basis of their superior teaching
  accomplishments
• 2002 Revision to Policies and Procedures for
  Promotion and Tenure www.med.nyu.edu/faa/docs/revi
  sion.doc

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Adina Kalet, MD, MPHNYU DoM PT Committee
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What should go into a teaching portfolio?

• Approach to Teaching
• Educational Contributions
• Reflections and Assessments
• Supporting Material

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What should go into a teaching portfolio?

• Approach to Teaching
• Educational philosophy
• Educational Contributions
• Curriculum development/evaluation
• Teaching activities
• Advising and mentoring
• Educational administration/leadership

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What should go into a teaching portfolio?

• Reflections and Assessments
• Evaluations by learners
• Letters from peers/supervisors
• Continuing education as educator
• Long-term plans as educator
• Supporting Material
• Documentation, evidence of scholarly activities
• teaching materials developed
• participation in workshops
• publications
• Honors and awards

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Philosophy of Education

• Discuss your personal philosophy of teaching
• Personal theory regarding learning
• View regarding the role of the teacher
• Top 3 characteristics of a good teacher?
• View regarding role of the learner
• Excellent teachers recognize students are?
• Personal objectives for teaching
• Primary goal in teaching?

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Philosophy of Education

• How have you tried to accomplish these
  objectives?
• How have they changed over time?
• How effective are you by these criteria?

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Teaching Contributions
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Regional/National Impact and Scholarship
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Curriculum Development and Instructional Design
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Educational Administration and Leadership
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Mentoring and Advising
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Awards and Grant Support
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Educational Consultations
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Long Term Goals
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Publications
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Appendices
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Scholarship of Discovery and of Teaching

• Application to Research
• Clarity of hypotheses
• Knowledge resources
• Study design
• Hypotheses tested
• Publication/presentation
• Critical reflection guides direction of research

• Application to Teaching
• Clarity of objectives
• Knowledge and materials
• Teaching eval methods
• Measures of effectiveness
• Share results methods
• Critical reflection guides steps to improve

• Clear Goals
• Adequate Preparation
• Appropriate Methods
• Significant Results
• Effective Presentation
• Reflective Critique

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Teaching as Scholarship

• Six Criteria to Evaluate Scholarship
• Clear Goals
• Adequate Preparation
• Appropriate Methods
• Significant Results
• Effective Presentation
• Reflective Critique
• Glassick Huber. Scholarship
  Assessed-Evaluation of the Professiorate. San
  Francisco, CA Jossey-Bass, 1997.

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Teaching as Scholarship

• Six Criteria
• Clear Goals
• Adequate Preparation
• Appropriate Methods
• Significant Results
• Effective Presentation
• Reflective Critique

• Application to Teaching
• Clarity of objectives
• Knowledge and materials
• Teaching eval methods
• Measures of effectiveness
• Share results methods
• Critical reflection guides steps to improve