What Consist of A Professional Portfolio?

Before we can go any further with what consists on a professional portfolio, I would want to let you know that there are 3 different types of portfolio, course portfolio, professional portfolio, and teaching portfolio. Under the teaching portfolio, there is a summative portfolio and formative portfolio. Summative portfolio is created for academic job or for promotion and tenure within a department. Then a formative portfolio's purpose is for personal and professional development. Since we are teachers in training, let us look in depth into the teaching portfolio.

                Teaching portfolio is a way to collect evidence of you teaching ability. Furthermore, it provides the reader with a context for you teaching, it is focused on QUALITY, not QUANTITY, and it allows for SELF-REFLECTION.                

                Now what should consist in a Professional Portfolio? Well documents that are often in a professional portfolio are:

1.       Statement of teaching philosophy,

2.       Description of teaching experience (responsibilities),

3.       Course planning artifacts: sample course syllabi, lesson plans, assignments, exams,

4.       Evidence of teaching effectiveness: summary of student feedback, department evaluations,

5.       Teaching awards and recognition,

6.       Professional development efforts.