The Teaching Portfolio : A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion Tenure Decisions - Softcover

Peter Seldin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962704210 ISBN 13: 9780962704215

Publisher: Anker Pub Co, 1991

Synopsis

Thoroughly revised and updated, this fourth edition of the classic hands-on resource offers a comprehensive review of all the facets developing teaching portfolios. This new edition will contain new perspectives and ideas; an expanded section on web-based electronic teaching portfolios ; a sample of colleges and universities that shows how they have implemented portfolios; real-world teaching portfolios of twenty-one faculty members and a report from a university provost on what he looks for in a portfolios submitted for promotion.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Since the publication of the first edition of this best-selling guide, tens of thousands of faculty have used it to prepare teaching portfolios. This third edition continues its focus on self-reflection and documenting teaching performance, and has also been significantly revised and expanded. Its straightforward approach, practical suggestions, step-by-step instructions, and field-tested recommendations will prove invaluable to those involved in evaluating and improving teaching.

Now organized into five parts, this edition includes new information on web-based electronic teaching portfolios, descriptions of how seven colleges and universities have actually implemented portfolios, and 22 new sample teaching portfolios from an array of disciplines and institutions. All were developed under the guidance of a skilled portfolio mentor.

Peter Seldin has visited hundreds of colleges and universities in the U.S. and around the world mentoring faculty and administrators on the development and use of the teaching portfolio. His vast experience is distilled in this essential resource for faculty, administrators, graduate students, and anyone who is interested in improving and evaluating teaching performance.

This book includes:

• Time-tested strategies and proven advice for getting started and then maintaining the most effective use of portfolios
• How portfolios can be used for promotion and tenure decisions
• How portfolios can be used to improve teaching
• Helpful answers to frequently asked questions
• Field-tested suggestions for improving the portfolio
  

About the Author

PETER SELDIN is Distinguished Professor of Management at pace University in Pleasantville, New York. A Behavioral scientist,, educator, author, and specialist in the evaluation and development of faculty and administrative performance, he has been a consultant on higher education issues to more than 300 colleges and universities throughout the United States and 40 countries around the world.
A well-known speaker at national and international conference, Seldin regularly serves as a faculty leader in programs offered by the American council on Education, the American Association for Higher Education, and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
His well-received books include:The Administrative Portfolio (2002, with Mary Lou Higgerson); Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching (1999, with associates); The Teaching Portfolio, second edition (1997); Improving College Teaching (1995, with associates); Successful Use of Teaching Portfolios (1993, with associates); The Teaching Portfolio (1991); How Administrators Can Improve Teaching (1990, with associates); Evaluating and Developing Administrative Performance (1988); Coping with Faculty Stress (1987, with associates); Changing Practices in faculty Evaluation (1984); Successful Faculty Evaluation Programs (1980); Teaching Professors to Teach (1977); How College Evaluate Professors (1975).
He has contributed to numerous articles on the teaching profession, student ratings, educational practice, and academic culture to such publications as The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change magazine. For his contributions to the scholarship of teaching, he has received honorary degrees from Keystone College (Pennsylvania) and Columbia College (South Carolina).

Edition details

• Publisher: Anker Pub Co
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962704210
• ISBN 13: 9780962704215
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 95