STEMTEC
Faculty Fellows Guidelines for “final
portfolio.”
The portfolio is designed to give you
a complete summary of how your course has developed, and it can also provide an
interested observer with some idea concerning how you implemented, managed, and
assessed your efforts. You can really design your portfolio in any way, and
include as much as you would like, but the essential points that we would like
to see (to be consistent with earlier faculty reports) include the following:
1.
Narrative.
This is your reflection on the whole process of course re-design, and should for the central part of your
report which should address the following issues:
a)
A
statement of the goals you have for the course and the reasons for undertaking
the re-design
b)
Description
of student-active teaching and learning in your class
c)
Your
view of successes and problems that you faced in implementing these changes
d)
Information
that you have gathered that provides data on the efficacy of your teaching
strategy (e.g. summaries of student evaluations, grades, attendance, class
participation as compared with previous years)
e)
Whether
and how the changes in your STEMTEC course have impacted your teaching methods
in other courses.
2.
Attachments
a)
Course
plan or syllabus. If possible, highlight the differences between “then” and
“now.”
b)
Exams
and other assessment tools. Explain any changes
c)
Other
innovations (e.g. group projects, in-class-assignments, gallery walks etc.)
d) Other
examples of successful changes to the course.