Teaching Portfolio Guidelines

   "Mentoring Towards Promotion"

Basic Components

•  Reflective Statement
• Should be 1-3 pages in length
• Should 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
• 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
• Provide comparison with other faculty members in Department
• May include written comments
• Written letters from graduate students, former residents, and fellows
• Teaching Portfolio Letters
• Draft of letter that goes to extramural physician requesting letter
• Should request 6-8 outside letters from individuals in leadership positions
• Format for letter from Division Chief recommending faculty for promotion
• Goes to Department Chair
• 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
• Newspaper or other periodicals that discuss your wor
• More than 30 pages

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.