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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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Looking through a collection of teaching portfolios by her colleagues helped reassure her that she could redesign her course while preserving what worked about the classroom experience. Thanks to that requirement, the Cal State system has built a library that has grown to more than 200 teaching portfolios.

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Why U. of Michigan’s President Says Universities Should Work to Transform Teaching

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To develop a body of scholarly work and a teaching portfolio that will enable them to get the security of employment that will lead them to the latter stages of their career. I'll tell you one thing that I mean by that. Our faculty come here as assisting professors and one of their goals is to achieve tenure.

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