Teaching portfolios are essential to many academic job applications and the promotion process. It is never too early in your teaching career to develop a portfolio. While teaching portfolios vary widely, this workshop presents some guidelines to follow and some basic strategies you can use to ensure that your portfolio will best demonstrate your teaching experience, accomplishments, and potential. Whether you are just beginning to teach or about to enter the job market, this workshop will enable you to compile and develop your best teaching portfolio.

This workshop may be counted toward the Professional Development concentration of the Achievement in Pedagogy Badge, offered through the Graduate Student Teaching Initiative. For more information, visit the Achievement in Pedagogy Badge website or contact tahelp@pitt.edu.

By the end of this workshop, students will be able to:

• Identify the essential characteristics of a teaching portfolio
• Make decisions about portfolio contents, structure, and framing based on an understanding of its likely audience
• Recognize ways of determining teaching effectiveness
• Strategically compile teaching materials for use in a teaching portfolio
• Streamline information for a more impactful presentation in a teaching portfolio