| INTRODUCTION - Teaching Portfolio |
Faculty participation in the development workshops is an important aspect of the DHC program. Not only do faculty make the seminars and discussion sections possible, but the interaction that takes place in the faculty workshops is unique on campus. The DHC encourages the faculty to act as cooperative problem solving investigators during their participation in the professional development workshops. During weekly workshops you will have the opportunity to explore collaborative learning methods, try different active learning techniques as well as, share reflections and insights from your seminar. The goal of the professional development workshops is to provide faculty with opportunities to develop the skills they need to insure seminars function effectively.
During the course of the quarter, you may find it valuable to collect materials used in the seminar for a Teaching Portfolio. Past faculty have found portfolios a useful reference tool for themselves and have chosen to share their a copy of their portfolio with the DHC office as a resource for other faculty. The purpose of a teaching portfolio is to share meaningful information concerning how your DHC seminar was taught and how the process of preparing for and facilitating the seminar may have affected your teaching practices. In addition, the DHC would like to keep a historical record of each seminar, in order to make available to new seminar instructors, and to track the growth and change of the program.
Suggested materials a portfolio might contain:
II. A brief summary on how you felt your seminar went, what you did right, what you would change, reflections on the students, descriptions of the intent and expectations of planned activities, as well as an indication of what actually happened.
A journal or notebook used to capture feelings, immediate reactions, satisfactions, enthusiasms, disappointments, insights, recommendations or observations after each class meeting can be useful tool for constructing final summaries.
III. Keep a list of ideas for the future. This list should include things that you would do differently if offering another seminar.
IV. A copy of the students final project and any samples of additional student work that are meaningful.
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