ETP-utlysning: Portfolio workshop

The workshop is led by associate professor II/academic developer Roy Andersson (UiB/Lund University), and is based on nearly two decades of developing and researching scholarly underpinned reward systems, mainly in STEM disciplines [1].

In addition, Harald Walderhaug (vice dean education, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences) will contribute around the open application process to the Pedagogical Academy at the Faculty and Stein Dankert Kolstø (professor at the Department of Physics and Technology and ETP 2018) will contribute around his own application process.

Writing a reflective portfolio

It may be a considerable and unusual personal challenge to expose your own teaching practices to peer review. The workshop revolves around structured ways to document and analyse teaching practices in reflective ways that both support your own pedagogical development and helps portfolio reading and assessment. A portfolio must thus be written in a trustworthy and readable manner. To achieve this, you should problematize teaching and learning observations, demonstrate problem solving through teaching design, and establish how this has influenced student learning. Typically, such a portfolio also displays teaching career developments from intuitive reactive to deliberate proactive teaching; teaching team collaborative efforts; and building of useful local or public knowledge of student learning. In the workshop we will demonstrate typical portfolio writing challenges and share a portfolio structure that appears robust with respect to such pitfalls.

Reference

[1] Olsson, T, Mårtensson, K, Roxå, T., & Ahlberg, A., 2012: Pedagogical competence and teaching skills – a development perspective from Lund University, Sweden. In: Szczyrba, B and Gotzen, S: Entwicklung, Dokumentation und Nachweis von Lehrkompetenz an Hochschulen. LIT Verlag Berlin.

Roy Andersson is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) at Lund University. He works both as an Academic Developer at the Centre for Engineering Education and as a teacher at the Department of Computer Science. He has been working as an Academic Developer since 1998 and his main interest is in supporting academics to investigate their practice in a scholarly way, in other words supporting Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). He is responsible for the program of pedagogical courses for university teachers at LTH and teaches in several courses himself and is a member of the Pedagogical Academy at LTH since 2002. Since 2015 he also holds a part-time position as Associate Professor II at the Centre for Excellence in Biology Education (bioCEED) at University of Bergen.