(a) Questions for reflection:

• What are your goals with respect to student learning?
• How would you describe the atmosphere in your classroom? How do you think your students would describe it?
• How do you help students to learn?
• What steps do you take to encourage higher level learning (such as synthesis, analysis, application, problem-solving, etc.)?
• What skills and values do you bring to the instructional aspect of your job?
• What is active learning and how do you use it in the classroom and in assignments?
• In which ways has your teaching changed in the last five years? Are they changes for the better (for you, for your students)? Explain.
• What qualities would you like to be remembered by as a teacher?

(b) Samples:

Sheree Rensel, http://www.wizzlewolf.com/philosophy.htm

John R. Meyer http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/j/jrmeyer/www/philosophy.html

Michele Doney http://www.msu.edu/user/costabil/academic/portfolio/philosophy.htm

Lucie Moussou, http://www.moussu.net/TP/philosophy.html

Jeff Phillips, http://www.physics.uci.edu/~jeff/phil.html

This information is also available on the TAG website. For more information, visit TAG’s page on teaching portfolios.