Presidential Teacher Award
Portfolio Guidelines

Format

Each portfolio should have a maximum length of 20 typed pages using 1.5 line spacing, a 12 point font, one inch margins, and headers with your name and page numbers. Portfolios should be submitted electronically in either Microsoft Word or PDF format, to Charla Brunton (bruntonc@ohio.edu), by 5:00 PM on January 15, 2009. Appendices will not be accepted.

Required Materials

    Cover Page
    Table of Contents
    Teaching Philosophy (1-2 pages)
    List of courses taught and numbers of students enrolled for the last two years
    List of numerical averages from student evaluations for the last two years, with dept. averages

Suggested Materials

    Teaching Practices and Innovations
      Statement of how student progress is measured, i.e., grading practices, grade distributions, etc.
      Description of how you keep current within your discipline
      Description of how you integrate recent theories and methodologies into your classes
      Description of your instructional methodology in relation to your discipline
      Design and implementation of instructional approaches

    Curriculum
      Curriculum developed
      Influence on curriculum

    Mentoring and Advising Students
      Undergraduate advising activities related to career and curriculum
      Thesis and dissertation advising

    Mentoring Faculty in Regard to Instruction
      Description of activities in regard to mentoring faculty
      Workshops
      Colloquia

    Scholarship with Respect to Teaching
      Publications
      Conferences
      Grants received in relation to teaching

If you have questions, please contact Marty Tuck or Charla Brunton by e-mail or by phone at 740-593-2577.