A Department-Based Approach to Developing Teaching Portfolios: Perspectives for Faculty Developers

The Department-Based Teaching Portfolio Project, now in its third year at Miami University, provides departments the flexibility to design and implement teaching development processes that honor the diversity of disciplines, departmental cultures, and leadership styles of department project coordinators. This approach has generated an interesting variety of departmental processes and results, for example, in the use of off-campus consultants and in the manner in which teaching portfolios are developed Based upon the outcomes of the Project, 20 recommendations inform faculty developers in their roles as department developers.