Teaching Portfolio Guidelines

Teaching Portfolio Guidelines for the Department of Anesthesiology

The development of a Teaching Portfolio is useful to establish and demonstrate Teaching accomplishments and advancements.

Basic Components

• Chronology of Teaching Activities
  • Chronological list of courses taught by year
  • Time commitment
  • Number of students in the course
• Peer Evaluations
  • Numeric scoring evaluations with comments from peers
  • Letters from colleagues who have directly observed your skills
    • Course directors
    • Collaborators
    • Mentors
• Learner Evaluations
  • Numerical summary of teaching effectiveness (student evaluations collected and summarized by the Department
  • Should be chronological with goal to demonstrate improvement over time
  • May include written comments
  • Written letters from former residents, and fellows
• Consider developing a Reflective Statement
  • Would be 1-3 pages in length
  • Would include your philosophy of education, style and approach
  • Highlight preferred teaching venues
  • Provide insight of your teaching goals
• Provide method of self-assessment and measure to improve quality

• Standardized Curriculum Vita Formate

• Do Not Include
  • Individual evaluation records
  • Patient testimonials
  • Thank you letters for presentation
  • Power Point or videos
  • Copies of awards, credentials, certificates, should be in CV
  • E-mail comments
  • Conference fliers showing you as speaker

The entire teaching portfolio should be 20-30 pages in length; a bigger document is not better.  Information in the teaching portfolio should not be redundant with the curriculum vitae.

For more information go to School of Medicine Teaching Portfolio website.