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Course
Portfolio Web site, Peer Review of Teaching Project "
This web site is designed to serve as an
international repository
for course portfolios written by faculty who teach at
post-secondary institutions. It provides faculty with a
structured and practical model that combines inquiry into the
intellectual work of a course, careful investigation of student
understanding and performance, and faculty reflection on teaching
effectiveness. Begun in 1994, the PRTP has engaged hundreds of
faculty members from numerous universities. In 2005, the project
was awarded a
TIAA-CREF Theodore M. Hesburgh Award Certificate of
Excellence
in recognition of it being an exceptional faculty
development program designed to enhance undergraduate student
achievement.
Here
is an excellent example of an instructor's course portfolio for
a composition course, including comments on it from her
peers.
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Visible
Knowledge Project " from Georgetown University aims to
improve the quality of college and university teaching by
focusing on both student learning and faculty development in
technology-enhanced environments."
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.It is an assumption of the Project that
very few faculty are, by training, prepared to undertake the
scholarship of teaching, and that most faculty need some
direction in acquiring a range of appropriate and useful
conceptual and research tools.
Faculty also need to develop a sense of community around questions of learning comparable to the kinds of intellectual communities intrinsic to traditional scholarship. The early stages of the Project provide support systems for both by fostering the creation of �faculty study groups�... to help a core of faculty investigators develop the necessary background and to engage in reflection on their own practice. Visible Knowledge Project |
Levine, Laura, et al. �Teaching Ourselves: A Model to
Improve, Assess, and Spread the Word.�
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning 1.2 (2007). (Also at
http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl
) The authors present a modest and
workable plan for a small group of faculty who want to carry out
an
SoTL project together. This is useful
for those wanting to get started in
SoTL and to build collegiality
through collaboration about teaching and learning.
FACET is home to
the Indiana University Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in
Teaching and is an ongoing initiative to �promote and
sustain teaching excellence� at IU as well as to promote
�inquiry and engagement in teaching and learning�
through colloquia and
publications. It contains
useful resources as well as a helpful picture of an excellent and
well-established
SoTL program.
The University of
Wisconsin
SoTL site is
�designed to support
and encourage research on teaching and learning.� The
sire is useful for getting started with
SoTL research and includes several
FAQs and links to numerous
SoTL web resources. Particularly
helpful are the numerous
SoTL articles and links to hundreds
of potential publication outlets for
SoTL research
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