Praise for The Teaching Portfolio "This new edition of a classic text has added invaluable, immediately useful material. It's a must-read for faculty, department chairs, and academic administrators." Irene W. D. Hecht, director, Department Leadership Programs, American Council on Education "This book offers a wealth of wisdom and materials. It contains essential knowledge, salient advice, and an immediately useful model for faculty engaged in promotion or tenure." Raymond L. Calabrese, professor of educational administration, The Ohio State University "The Teaching Portfolio provides the guidelines and models that faculty need to prepare quality portfolios, plus the standards and practices required to evaluate them." Linda B. Nilson, director, Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, Clemson University "Focused on reflection, sound assessment, and collaboration, this inspiring and practical book should be read by every graduate student, faculty member, and administrator." John Zubizarreta, professor of English, Columbia College "All the expanded and new sections of this book add real value, but administrators and review committees will clearly benefit from the new section on how to evaluate portfolios with a validated template." Barbara Hornum, director, Center for Academic Excellence, Drexel University "This book is practical, insightful, and immediately useful. It's an essential resource for faculty seeking promotion/tenure or who want to improve their teaching." Michele Stocker-Barkley, faculty, Department of Psychology, Kishwaukee Community College "The Teaching Portfolio has much to say to teachers of all ranks, disciplines, and institutions. It offers a rich compendium of practical guidelines, examples, and resources." Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Associate Provost for Faculty Development, University of Massachusetts Amherst "Teaching portfolios help our Board on Rank and Tenure really understand the quality and value of individual teaching contributions." Martha L. Wharton, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs and Diversity, Loyola University, Maryland

This valuable work suggests one model in which faculty assemble a collection of carefully selected work samples accompanied by reflective commentary about them. Covers the what, why, and how of teaching portfolios, with pointers for getting started and a sampling of current campus practices. Includes reproductions of eight actual portfolio entries. The companion volume toCampus Use of the Teaching Portfolio.

The learning portfolio is a powerful complement to traditional measures of student achievement and a widely diverse method of recording intellectual growth. This second edition of this important book offers new samples of print and electronic learning portfolios. An academic understanding of and rationale for learning portfolios and practical information that can be customized. Offers a review of the value of reflective practice in student learning and how learning portfolios support assessment and collaboration. Includes revised sample assignment sheets, guidelines, criteria, evaluation rubrics, and other material for developing print and electronic portfolios.

Follow three very different teachers through the process of creating a reflective teacher portfolio. This book covers all the basics of portfolios. Chapters cover each of the standard parts of a portfolio—Introduction, Influences, Instruction, Individualization, and Integration—and explore how the teachers apply the principles to their classrooms and styles. Teachers, peer mentors and administrators alike will appreciate this detailed approach to the evaluation process. With this book, you can turn your portfolio into a powerful tool of self-assessment as well as a tangible demonstration of your teaching capabilities.

This book and downloadable resources show school leaders how to develop teacher portfolios and put them into action. They will provide confidence and credibility as you engage in: - "high stakes" summative evaluations - initial hiring, tenure, and other key personnel decisions - fostering a school culture which encourages high levels of performance This book and downloadable resources provide a reliable and easy way for teachers to: - collect and analyze data about their effectiveness - monitor and improve their own performance - improve student learning Adopting the templates in this book and downloadable resources will enable you to define: - standards which describe actual duties and activities of teachers - behaviors which indicate the quality of teaching - "artifacts" which provide evidence of teaching and learning - scoring rubrics which assist in objective evaluation The downloadable resources, contain easy-to-use templates of performance assessment rubrics, feedback forms, and other documents to help you organize & implement Teacher Portfolios in your school.

This book is based on the INTASC principles - the most widely recognized and used set of national standards for classroom educators in the U.S. "Specifically, it teaches candidates how to select powerful artifacts of their teaching and how to construct meaningful reflective statements in the context of powerful professional portfolios" -- Preface.

This portfolio handbook includes authentic, student-generated artifacts as well as insights from administrators, teachers, and parents. Issues of classroom management, diversity, communication, planning, standards-based education, and reflection are all addressed in the context of how to approach these important aspects within a teaching portfolio and during interviews. The materials are designed for continued use as the students become in-service educators.

Digital Teaching Portfolios are persuasive professional tools for pre-service and in-service teachers- displaying tangible evidence of their knowledge and skills. In this booklet, readers will learn about portfolios, the ways they benefit teachers and how to create one.

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). The goal of this collection of peer-reviewed papers was to provide researchers from the fields of Information Science, Automation and Materials Systems with a forum for sharing new ideas, innovations and solutions. The 371 peer-reviewed papers are grouped into the chapters: 1: Information Science and Automation, 2: Industry and Computer Applications, 3: Network Technology and Materials Engineering, 4: Intelligent Information and Applications, 5: Information Systems, Automation and Control, 6: Materials Engineering, Information and Automation, 7: Programming, Image and Industrial Application. Overall, the contents provide a useful handbook on the field.