Teaching portfolio

Assessment refers to the evaluation of teaching competences for hiring, promotion, teaching awards and the like.

In recruitment and assessment situations, all elements of the portfolio are used. A complete teaching portfolio is expected to be 6-8 pages plus any appendix material.

The final assessment of an applicant's teaching competences will be a weighing of several criteria, similar to the assessment of an applicant's research qualifications. However, the teaching portfolio also applies when filling positions that only contain teaching.

Development refers to activities such as performance and development reviews with the line manager (“MUS”), conversations with a mentor/supervisor, or other discussions with development in mind. Another case is when the teaching portfolio is used privately by the lecturer for development purposes, e.g. to get a private overview of their own competences, for personal career planning and competence development, or as a personal reflection tool for teaching development.

For development purposes, only the portfolio element, Reflective Practice Description, is used. The element is expected to fill ½-1 A4 page and is structured according to the following template:

In addition to performance and development reviews, there are ongoing discussions about pedagogical development. This may be between academic staff and an educational consultant, between academic staff and the Head of study, or between academic staff, possibly in a colleague supervision situation. Discussions from this can supplement or be written into the Reflective practice element and used in the performance and development review.

Exhibition refers to the documentation of teaching competences that must be available to the wider public, e.g. in PURE/via SDU's website or similar.

For the exhibition purpose, the four elements are used: Teaching experience, Pedagogical education, Other pedagogical qualifications and Teaching philosophy.

These four elements are published on the individual employee's PURE profile. In practice, this is done by the lecturer creating a teaching CV under the "Curriculum vitae" tab. See this guide (opens as a PDF file) for creating teaching CVs in PURE.