UWI/Guardian Life 'Premium' Teaching Awards

Preparing the Teaching Portfolio

Information and Assistance
In preparation for the implementation of the UWI/Guardian Life 'Premium' Teaching Award, the Campus will organize a workshop on the Preparation of Teaching Portfolios during the first year. This will be sponsored by Guardian Life and will be facilitated by an international expert. Members of faculty will then have a year to prepare for application for the Teaching Excellence Award.

Follow-up workshops will be held during the second semester of each year on portfolio writing and peer observation. The Instructional Development Unit will provide ongoing support and guidance for faculty during the portfolio preparation process.

Collecting Supporting Data
Preparing a Teaching Portfolio helps one to:
• Reflect on areas of teaching
• Reveal one’s personal approach to teaching
• Gather and present hard evidence and data on the effectiveness of one’s teaching
• Document one’s evolution as a teacher

In preparation for the training workshop and for the collation of the portfolio, it will be necessary to collect a range of documents some of which might eventually be included in the portfolio.

Faculty should begin to collect this data from early. Data include but are not limited to:

Materials From Oneself
• Your teaching philosophy
• Detailed course title, numbers, enrollment etc.
• Examples of course handouts, assessments or assignments
• Short and long term teaching goals
• Teaching innovations
• Use of technology and other non-print materials in teaching
• Learning resources developed
• Evidence of teaching outcomes
• Contribution to a professional journal on teaching
• Evidence of evaluation of one’s teaching and teaching related activities
• Research, especially classroom research on teaching
• Attendance at conferences/workshops/committee meetings etc. on teaching and other activities undertaken to improve teaching

Materials from Others
• Statements from colleagues who have observed your classroom teaching
• Statements from colleagues who have reviewed and commented on your course and/or teaching materials, syllabi, examinations and grading etc.
• Student results
• Students ratings data
• Evidence of student learning
• Samples of students’ work
• A record of students who succeeded in postgraduate or advanced study in the field
• Letters of commendations or other evidence from students about your teaching and how it has helped them
• Honours and Awards for teaching
• Grants for improving learning and teaching in your discipline

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