Portfolio Requirements
Note on Student Evaluations: Student Evaluations must be done for every class every semester. If you do not receive a packet to do evaluations, contact ?????
This page provides a breakdown of our department's required documents for each portfolio year. Click on the links for more detail about each Portfolio Requirement.
Portfolio Review Checklist
A checklist of required items is available here to assist faculty in determining all the portfolio materials have been submitted.
First Year Portfolios:
Portfolios for faculty who are in their first year of teaching at ACC should contain materials for every course (not every class) taught during the current CALENDAR year. If you taught five different courses during 2020, include materials from each course, but if you taught five sections of one course, do not include materials from every section of that course. Pick one, and submit all the materials for that section.
These materials are required:
Second Year Portfolios:
Portfolios for faculty who are in their first year of teaching at ACC should contain these materials for every course (not every class) taught during the current CALENDAR year. If you taught a course five times, do not include material from every section. Choose one.)
This means that if your 2nd year portfolio is due in December 2020, include materials for 2019 and 2020.
Third Year Portfolios or Later:
Portfolios for faculty who are in their first year of teaching at ACC should contain these materials for every course (not every class) taught during the current CALENDAR year. If you taught a course five times, do not include material from every section. Choose one.)
This means that if your 3rd year portfolio is due in December 2020, include materials for 2018, 2019, and 2020.
Review Portfolios
Faculty who have submitted at least two consecutive third year portfolios in our department may, upon approval of the department/evaluation chair, submit a review portfolio in lieu of a third year portfolio. Specific requirements must be met:
Previous overall Summary Evaluations must have a rating of Excellent or Very Good for every evaluation for the two previous 3 year cycles (two third year portfolio cycles).
Administrative requirements must be complete for each yearly evaluation.
All student evaluations must be Excellent or Very Good. Any student evaluations other than Excellent or Very Good in the current 3 year cycle will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis by the department/evaluation chair.
Subsequent Review Portfolios should cycle through the all of the courses standardly taught by that instructor prior to repeating a course that has already been submitted as a Review Portfolio.
The Review Portfolio should contain the following items:
Syllabus (from the course selected)
Exams (from the course selected)
Labs and/or major activities (from the course selected)
Statement of Teaching Philosophy
Course Commentary (from the course selected)
FIFs for the year, as usual
Professional Development Plan
Please note why this course was chosen, such as having developed new materials for the course and desiring feedback from the committee, or getting feedback based on previous student evaluations. In the first case please be sure to indicate any new materials submitted for review. In the course commentary please briefly mention how you differentiate this course from comparable course at a different math level (such as CP vs GP or GP vs EP) since the committee won't be able to make the comparison on their own from the materials submitted for the Review Portfolio.
Detailed Information on Portfolio Requirements
Syllabi and other 1st day handouts
Syllabi should be in accordance with the Master Syllabi guidelines.
First-day handouts covering special information not included in the syllabus (e.g., special project guidelines, lab report guidelines).
Exams
Include a copy of every exam, including the last or final exam.
Give clear grading policy based on Department requirements.
Consider including pictures and graphics for clarity.
For all courses with labs, include:
A list of all labs done (include the list with your submitted labs even if it is also included in the syllabus).
Examples of three labs.
Only submit three labs for each course.
Labs should be include topics from the entire semester (e.g. one from early in the semester, one from mid-way in the semester, and one from the end).
Labs should include different types that are representative of the labs you teach. For example, you could include a standard lab, a discovery lab, or a formal lab if you teach these types.
In your labs, consider including pictures and graphics for clarity.
If verbal instructions are given before the labs with important instructions not written in the labs, give the committee that information, summarizing what your verbal instructions are, or by taking and submitting a picture of the board if your instructions are written there.
For Engineering, Honors, or lecture only courses, submit information about Projects or Major Assignments:
For Engineering courses, include:
All major projects
For lecture-only courses, include:
Examples of at least two major assignments. (These could be reports, projects, homework, or other assignments). If the course has no such assignments, include a note stating this.
For Honors lecture classes:
Include examples of assignments/projects that exemplify why these are Honors classes.
Faculty Input Form - (Download the FIF here)
It is recommended that you complete a FIF after you receive your Student Evaluations each semester for the previous semester. For example, at the beginning of the summer semester, you will receive your Student Evaluations for classes you taught in spring. At the beginning of fall semester you will receive Student Evaluations for your summer classes. At the beginning of the spring semester, you will receive your Student Evaluations for fall classes.
Submit a FIF for Spring, Summer, and Fall classes for the calendar year being reviewed.
If you choose to submit only one FIF during the year, it must be submitted in spring (usually by early February) after you receive your Student Evaluations for Fall classes. You must still comment on Student Evaluations for the entire year (Spring, Summer, and Fall classes).
Each FIF should include the following:
Comment on Student Evaluation comments, especially any that suggest contract violations.
Comment if there are unusual amounts of A's (>60%) or F's or W's (>50%).
*The final FIF or once a year FIF submitted at the beginning of Spring must also include answers to the other questions on the FIF.*
Statement of Teaching Philosophy (2nd and 3rd year)
From the ACC Faculty Evaluation Procedures Manual: The Statement of Teaching Philosophy provides valuable insight into how and why an instructor teaches. A statement of teaching philosophy contains the overall values, goals, and objectives of teaching as well as the broad objectives students should learn from the course. The teaching philosophy needs to express what faculty do as teachers and why. The evaluators use the philosophy to determine if the instructor’s goals and objectives are congruent with that of the college, the department, and the discipline.
Course Commentary (3rd year)
From the ACC Faculty Evaluation Procedures Manual: The Course Commentary is an application of the teaching philosophy to one particular course. The course commentary should contain a statement of what, how, and why the instructor is doing what he or she is doing in one particular course. The faculty member is to reflect on what is being done in a particular course, to examine the methods used to teach the course, and to evaluate the faculty’s teaching effectiveness in that course.
Professional Development Plan (3rd year and Review)
The development plan is expected to be a document that describes a plan of professional development goals the faculty member has for their future growth. This document is basically an exercise in taking a thoughtful look at what one hopes to achieve in the next year. For more information on the new requirements for professional development, visit the Professional Development page.