Today's class will involve professor visits, teaching portfolios, pedagogy research, and some closing notes.

(20 minutes)

The person on call for this week will share their section experience. Some questions include:

• What did you do?
• How did you implement your activities?
• What worked?
• What didn't work?
• What would you do differently?
• How did you assess learning?
• Did you receive any unexpected questions/reactions/etc.?
• Did anything unexpected happen?
• What were you thinking about while you were running section? Any moments of panic?

(⇐90 minutes)

Due to a Academic Senate meeting, these visits will be sprinkled throughout the class. We'll hear from Filippenko, Davis, Quataert, and Stahler on teaching, pedagogy, and philosophy.

(10 minutes)

Slater and Adams has a good chapter on the Teaching Portfolio.

• Good emphasis on not slipping into generalities and on trying to connect everything to a set of specific goals.
• The rubric itself is pretty logical given what we've talked about this semester.
• The 5 main points to cover/things to do in a Teaching Philosophy are:
  1. Goals for student learning
  2. Enactment of goals/teaching methods
  3. Assessment of goals (measuring student learning)
  4. Creating an inclusive classroom and acknowledge differences in students' learning abilities and styles
  5. Good structure, rhetoric, language; well-written
• General guidelines:
  1. Brief (1-2 pages)
  2. Narrative, first person approach
  3. Portray yourself as an individual: don't be vague, broad, or too general
  4. Give specific examples of your teaching in practice
  5. Showcase your strengths and accomplishments
  6. Convey reflectiveness
  7. Communicate that teaching is valued
• Michigan's Center for Research on Learning and Teaching has a great site on this stuff here

You might try this to get you started: In at least one paragraph, but not more than one page, answer the following questions:

1. I bring to teaching a belief that …..
2. In the classroom I see myself as …..
3. I believe students are …..
4. I seek to foster in students …..
5. I think the role of discussion section is …..