Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Yellin, University of Washington; Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Charity Tsuruda, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

teaching portfolios designed primarily for self-reflection. Page 11.1219.9Additional resources about teaching portfolios may be found through the Carnegie Foundationfor the Advancement of Teaching9.In summary, our analysis revealed three primary reasons why institutions of higher educationencourage and support graduate students and faculty to develop and maintain teaching portfolios.These reasons include (a) for assessment – using teaching portfolios in applications for facultyjobs, or tenure and promotion; (b) as an instructional intervention – preparing graduate studentsfor faculty careers using the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) model; or (c) as

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

tremendous amount of work each year for the newengineering professor. However, the results have indicated better knowledge transfer to thestudents along with high scores on the student course evaluation forms making it all worthwhile.Scholarly activity also plays an important role (25%) in the tenure decision. Faculty members areexpected to conduct research of some type and publish papers. The sort of research varies greatlyby faculty member with some aimed at scientific discovery while others are targeted at appliedinvestigations. Interestingly no time is allocated during the academic term to conduct this Page 11.1350.8research; it has to be done