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Future Goals
When discussing future goals avoid being overly general or adopting a confessional tone. Be specific about the areas of your teaching that you would like to develop, explain how you propose to develop them, and give a time frame within which you hope to do so. The function of this part of the portfolio is to demonstrate that you have a professional relationship to your teaching by showing how you propose to foster your development as a teacher.
Some Ways to Develop your Teaching
- Attend conferences and courses.
- Learn to use new kinds of instructional technology and integrate them into your teaching.
- Develop a service learning component in a course.
- Create new writing assignments.
- Utilize new or previously unexplored campus resources.
- Change textbooks, introducing new work from your field.
- Apply for course improvement grants.
The Teaching Portfolio Links:
- Why Prepare a Teaching Portfolio?
- What Should be Included in a Teaching Portfolio?
- Developing a Statement of Teaching Philosophy
- Teaching Experience
- Course Design and Pedagogy
- Questions to Reflect on When Developing a Syllabus
- Feedback on Teaching
- Future Goals
Teaching Resources Links:
- Creating Ground Rules for Discussion Sections
- Using Group Work in Discussion Sections
- Strategies for Variety in the Classroom
- Developing Critical Reading Skills
- How to Teach Lab Sections
- Award-winning Teaching Ideas (Teaching Effectiveness Award Essays)
- Theories of Learning
- Dealing with and Preventing Academic Dishonesty
- Grading Students' Written Work
- Understanding & Using Instructional Technology
- Five Ways to Improve Your Teaching
- How to Write a Letter of Recommendation
- Campus Resources
- FAQs
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