Introduction

Teaching portfolios consist of a collection of evidence of teaching and related skills associated with the role of a teacher. They are now very widely used, in the UK and elsewhere, for the assessment of a teacher's competence in a formal programme of training in teaching and learning in higher education. Other main uses of the teaching portfolio are to provide evidence of teaching and related skills for tenure and/or promotion decisions and to provide the basis for continuing professional development. Debate is moving on from descriptions of how to develop and present a portfolio of evidence about one's teaching to how to use portfolios as part of wider educational development practice, involving such practices as mentoring and continuing professional development.

Using Portfolios in Educational Development (ICED workshop)
This link takes you to a modified version of the original Deliberations section on teaching portfolios hosted by Graham Gibbs and Peter Seldin. It consists of pre-workshop discussions and materials for a workshop organised by the International Consortium on Educational Development (ICED) in 1997. These include issues about teaching portfolios, a bibliography, an extract from Peter Seldin's book "The Teaching Portfolio - A practical guide to improved performance and promotion/tenure decisions" and information about some of the participants.

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