Evidence of Teaching – Self Perspective
Teaching Portfolios. Portfolios can serve as living documents that accurately capture various aspects of your teaching such as:
- Description of teaching responsibilities
- Description of course, its place in the curriculum
- Description of your students
- Selection of teaching artifacts that reflect your commitment to teaching (assessments, student work, course content)
- Evidence of achievement of learning outcomes
- Excerpts from student feedback tools
Self-Inventories: Many tools exist out there for inspiration and self- assessment, here are a few examples:
- Transforming Higher Education Multidimensional Evaluation of Teaching (TEVAL) Rubrics of effective teaching from KU, Colorado
- Teaching Practices Inventory (Wieman and Gilbert, 2017)
- Quality Matters Online Course Rubric
Reflective Practice. Reflections in response to new implementations, assessments, observations, SETs. Prompts could include questions such as:
- What are students expected to learn in your course and why?
- What content do you use in your course and why?
- What learning activities do you use and why?
How do you structure your class to help your students achieve learning goals - How do you address diversity and inclusion in your teaching practice? What evidence do you have that this approach is successful?
- How have you developed as an instructor? What changes have you made and why? How effective were you in implementing your changes?
Teaching development plan
Teaching philosophy statement
Diversity and inclusion statement
Also explore these guides from the University of Kansas teaching effectiveness project on how to document your teaching (downloads a Word document) and how to represent student learning (opens a PDF document).