Documentation:CTLT Resources/Selected TL Topics ePortfolios

Documenting Your Teaching Effectiveness and Reflections

This section of your portfolio typically includes various sources of information that, collectively, demonstrate your teaching effectiveness.

Materials to draw from to document your effectiveness and to reflect on your teaching ^[1]:

Summarized student evaluations of teaching, including response rate
Peer reviews of teaching
Data from mid-course feedback or other formative student feedback
Teaching recognitions such as (1) awards received by your department, institution, and external awards (professional association, national and international teaching awards) and (2) funding received to pursue a teaching initiative. Note: Nominations for awards also indicate your reputation as a teacher.

Other materials may include:

Unsolicited and solicited letters from students (initiated by the unit)
Written comments from students on class evaluations (please note that, at UBC, the recommendation is against incorporating select comments from students; ie, you need to include all the comments or none)
Statements from alumni
Letters from course head, division head or chairperson

You will want to include your own reflections about your effectiveness in this section.

The sample teaching portfolios below incorporate reflection and evaluations of teaching effectiveness:

Martin Andresen, Professor, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, CA
Jonathan Verrett, Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (see 2020 Tenure Application tab), University of British Columbia
Catherine Rawn, Professor of Teaching, Psychology Department, University of British Columbia