CSc Teaching Portfolio

Graduate students in the Computer Science department are expected to submit an annual teaching portfolio, that documents the class(es) that they taught. Full-time faculty are also required to do this every year.

Teaching Portfolio

The teaching portfolio should include the following items.

* a cover letter,
relevant teaching materials
- * syllabus,
- * slides presented in class (preferably in handout form with at least 6 slides per page),
- * all tests and quizzes,
- * all homeworks,
- a copy of your class website (if you have one),
- handouts given to the class (for example, a list of common commands),
- articles handed out in class (such as a photocopy of a CACM column),
- * grade distribution information (how many students received A grades, how many received B grades, etc.),
- * student evaluations, including all written responses (positive and negative),
- * name of faculty teaching mentor (Professor Sunderraman being the default mentor).

Items with a * must be included.

This will be due every January, for the previous calendar year.

Do not include materials beyond the previous calendar year's 3 semesters (Spring, Summer, and Fall).

You can put these materials in a binder (preferred) or on a CD-ROM.

The cover letter allows you to walk the reviewers through your materials, and point out your accomplishments. It should be short (preferably 1 page but no more than 2 pages). Please explain the significance of the materials that you include and make it clear what you contributed. For example, if you include a test, did you create all of the questions yourself, or did some come from previous exams or the textbook? For power-point slides, did you make them, copy them from an instructor's CD-ROM, or get them from another instructor? You may have obtained slides from another source, then spent time updating and adding to the slides. But if you only include the slides, we have no way of knowing how much effort you put in.

Team-work is encouraged for instructors. For example, you should meet regularly with other instructors who teach a different section of the same course in the semester that you teach it.