Keeping a teaching portfolio which records your observations in class may help you in examining some of the issues raised in the self-evaluation questions. This approach
can be useful as a formative tool to improve aspects of teaching or design in your
units. It can also provide evidence as the basis for an application
for promotion.
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What is your educational philosophy?
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How has it changed or evolved and can you illustrate this?
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What innovative approaches did you use in your teaching? Why?
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How did you vary your lecturing style? Why?
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What levels and abilities of students have you taught?
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How did you cope with students from varying backgrounds, ability or motivation?
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Did you vary the Unit for these students?
Why and how?
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What assessment strategies did you use in the Unit? Why?
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Were they the same as the last time you taught this Unit?
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Did you vary
assessment after class consultation and why?
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How do you review and evaluate your own teaching?
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How have you acted on the information you collected in your evaluations to change and develop your teaching?
One way to collect data on the class you just taught which you can then place in your portfolio is to use self-evaluation tools
