Produce A Portfolio in Ten Days

It's time again for our Teaching Portfolio Workshop!! The TRC offers this inter-disciplinary workshop on analyzing and documenting teaching every two years, with the next scheduled in May. Many of the over 150 U.Va. faculty and TAs who have produced portfolios in this setting found that it provides structure, support and feedback useful to accomplishing the task in a defined period of time. In response to a 2002 survey, 93% of the faculty and 100% of the TA participants said they found the Teaching Portfolio Workshop to be useful. The overall value respondents ascribed to having a portfolio was also high: 85% of all participants have found that it has been "very valuable" or "somewhat valuable" to have a teaching portfolio.

During this workshop, faculty and teaching assistants from wide variety of academic disciplines create portfolios documenting effective teaching. Each participant benefits from rich interdisciplinary exchanges in the three group meetings over a ten-day period and from working one-on-one with a coach, a peer who has previously written a portfolio. Writers discover commonalities across disciplines, consider what is unique about teaching their field, and share thoughtful approaches to producing a portfolio based on evidence.

Applications to participate in the workshop will be considered beginning March 1, 2005. Group meeting dates are the mornings of May 16, 19 and 26. To see sample portfolios created at previous Workshops, stop by the TRC to view our reference file or check out the on-line portfolios.

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