What you'll learn

In this course you will ...
... find out which aspects need to be included in your teaching portfolio.
... discover what a teaching philosophy is and how you formulate your own.
... learn how you can showcase your work as university instructor.
... reflect on your underlying teaching principles and find out how you include them in your teaching portfolio.
... are invited to do 12 reflection tasks which will help you get started actually writing your own teaching portfolio.

Course content

9 sections • 35 lectures • 1h 56m total length

Welcome to this course!1:51
Begin with task one on your handout; choose the questions that resonate, answer them first to spark your thinking, and mark easy items for later as we cover teaching portfolios.
Meet your instructor2:32
Meet your instructor, an academically certified didactic expert and English language educator with 20 years of university and high school teaching, who guides you in building a strong teaching portfolio.
How you can profit most3:24
Task 1: Let's do some soul-searching1:51

Intro & Task 2: Analyse my teaching philosophy statement1:19
Analyze your teaching philosophy statement by completing task two questions, recording your answers on the handout, and using the statement as the starting point to develop your teaching portfolio.
My teaching philosophy statement6:15
Content Analsis3:59
What is a teaching philosophy?4:49
Discover what a teaching philosophy is—a personal, reflective statement of your goals, practices, and student roles that guides learning and professional growth.
Task 3: Some more analyzing1:57
Task 4: You tell me - what makes a good teaching philosophy statement?1:20
Explore the common features of good teaching philosophy statements and identify their key characteristics. Apply practical guidelines for crafting strong and successful teaching philosophies.
Now let me tell you9:03
Task 5: You are ready! Write your first draft of a teaching philosophy statement2:26

Task 6: Recall1:52
Recall and document your teaching across university courses and other activities, including mentoring, supervision, school projects, international teaching, exchange programs, and outreach.
Teaching performance part I4:08
What are signature courses & why are they good for your teaching portfolio?7:39
Task 7: Find your own signature courses1:49
Teaching performance part II3:55
Step by step writing guide for this chapter3:36
Task 8: What have we covered?0:41

Task 10: (How) do you monitor student learning and do assessment?0:54
Reflect on monitoring student learning throughout the semester, evaluate how you receive and provide feedback that supports understanding, and examine how you derive grades for your students.
Monitoring student learning & assessment5:49
Describe your assessment strategies, formative and summative, and how you grade and provide feedback to ensure constructive alignment and sustainable learning, incorporating student input and course evaluations.
Guiding questions for this chapter2:45
Task 11: My essentials0:41
Reflect on the chapter's approaches to monitoring student learning and assessment, identify the essential aspects, and record them as notes on your handout for your teaching portfolio.

Requirements

There are no specific requirements.
Ideally you need to write a teaching portfolio now or somewhen in the near future.
The idea is that you really get active and do the various tasks as this will help you profit most from the course.

Description

"Oh, and you have to hand in a teaching portfolio!"
-- "... a teaching what ... ?"

Don't worry! Most university instructors only find out that there must be something like a teaching portfolio when they are told to write one - or worse: when they should already have it. What normally follows is perplexed faces, google searches and frustration about being left alone with this mysterious document that you have never heard of before.

In this course I will try to make your life easier. Don't get me wrong: You will still have to write your teaching portfolio and that is work. But this course was developed to help you prepare your document. Together we will explore the various parts that should be included in a teaching portfolio and find out how to begin and what to be careful about.

Sounds good? Well, then let's get started!

Who this course is for:

You are a university instructor?
You need to write a teaching portfolio?
You do not really know what that is or how to get started?
You are expected to share your teaching philosophy and don't even know what that is?
If so, this is the right course for you! It's great to have you here!

What you'll learn

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Course content

Introduction4 lectures • 10min

The basics3 lectures • 13min

The heart & soul: your teaching philosophy8 lectures • 31min

Teaching performance7 lectures • 24min

Planning & preparation3 lectures • 13min

Monitoring student learning & assessment4 lectures • 10min

Professional development: past, present & future2 lectures • 8min

Attachments2 lectures • 3min

Closing Words2 lectures • 4min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: