Teaching Portfolio

Running head: TEACHING PORTFOLIO
TEACHING PORTFOLIO
Name of the Student
Name of the university
Author’s note

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TEACHING PORTFOLIO
Purpose of creating a teacher portfolio
A teaching portfolio acts as an important tool for the teachers in the educational field. A
teaching portfolio helps the teachers to outline his/her accomplishments in the portfolio in order
to receive a higher position in the workforce. A teaching portfolio is useful for the job applicants
for documenting their effectiveness of their teaching (Elton, 2012). Teaching portfolio can also
be used to reflect on the experiences, thus helping in refining of the teaching skills. Reflecting of
the teaching experiences have been found to have increasing the professional development of the
teachers. It helps them in understanding the gaps left in the teaching –learning process (Farrell,
2015).
The importance of the teacher portfolio
A teacher portfolio can be used by the job applicants for documenting the effectiveness of
the teaching such that it can be helpful in applying for the higher posts. Professionals can even
share their portfolio online for inviting comments from their peers for sharing the success of
teaching such that others can be benefitted from them (Elton, 2012). The personal statement from
the educator in the portfolio outlines the philosophy of the educators and the way they will alter
their methods for meeting the needs of the students (Tucker, Gareis & Stronge, 2013). A
teaching portfolio also contains sections for providing the student feedback, such as evaluation of
how a course has been taught.
What a teacher portfolio should contain
A teaching portfolio should contain thoughts about teaching, that is, a statement of
philosophy, goals and the objectives. Secondly, it should contain a list of documentation of the