As a kind of laboratory notebook for recording data and observations over time, the course portfolio keeps the teacher’s experience from being lost with the teacher’s memory. It’s a possible means of capturing “wisdom of practice.”
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“I was familiar with teaching portfolios … but thinking about teaching as scholarly inquiry began to lead me in the direction of something I had not seen anyone else doing: a portfolio that focused on the course rather than on all of one’s teaching. Being a social scientist, I began to think of each course … as a kind of laboratory - not a truly controlled experiment of course but as a setting in which you start out with goals for student learning, then you adopt teaching practices that you think will accomplish these and along the way you can watch and see if your practices are helping to accomplish your goals, collecting evidence about effects and impact.” W. Cerbin quoted in Hutchings book, The Course Portfolio Review Unit I material on course portfolios (Unit 1B, page 11). Review
a course portfolio example (Unit 2 B, page 10).
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Hutchings, P. (Ed.) 1998 The Course Portfolio, AAHE |
