From The Ohio State University, a web-page containing an overview to portfolios, including a description of different kinds of portfolios and characteristics of effective portfolios.

http://ucat.osu.edu/teaching_portfolio/teaching_port.html 

This web-page contains steps for compiling a portfolio, an extensive of materials that can be included, and examples of a short teaching philosophy and interpretation of student evaluations. It is from the University of Texas at Austin.

http://ctl.utexas.edu/teaching-resources/advance-your-career/assemble-your-teaching-portfolio/

This web-site for the University of Washington contains “guidelines for the preparation and use of teaching portfolios.” At the bottom of each page are links to additional pages including ones with resources and tools, and information on developmental teaching portfolios as well as evaluative teaching portfolios for promotion and tenure.

http://depts.washington.edu/cidrweb/portfolio/guidelines.html

From the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, this web-page offers advice on constructing a teaching portfolio, including teaching roles and responsibilities, teaching statements, and evidence of effective—check out the link in this section to see an example of how to summarize teaching evaluations.

http://www.unl.edu/gradstudies/current/dev/portfolio.shtml#final

A web-page from Iowa State University which contains an annotated bibliography on teaching portfolios and related topics.

http://www.celt.iastate.edu/faculty/selected_readings.html

The Teaching Portfolio is an eight-page occasional paper from the University of Michigan. In addition to basic information on portfolios, it includes information on how they are evaluated, plus a peer review rubric. Also of value is the one-page list of 49 items which might be included in a portfolio.

http://www.crlt.umich.edu/publinks/CRLT_no11.pdf   

This 11-page workbook uses five activities to walk lecturers, librarians and graduate students through the process of creating a course portfolio.

http://ctl.utsc.utoronto.ca/home/sites/default/files/Teaching_portfolios.pdf 

This “how to” guide, entitled Guidelines for Teaching Portfolios, is from Carnegie Mellon University. The first eight pages contain tips on creating portfolio, and the remaining 167 pages contain real examples of teaching statements, classroom rubrics, and other materials that might be included in a teaching portfolio.

http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/resources/DocumentingYourTeaching/TeachingPortfolios/TeachingPortfolios.pdf

From the Tomorrow’s Professor Listserve, you can accesses Chapter 3, “Preparing the Teaching Portfolio,” from Peter Seldin, J. Elizabeth Miller, and Clement A. Seldin’s book, The Teaching Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions. You will need to type “1076” in the box in the upper left-hand corner where you can search the listings by number.

http://cgi.stanford.edu/~dept-ctl/tomprof/postings.php

In The Journal of Higher Education article, “Valuing and Evaluating Teaching in Academic Hiring: A Multidisciplinary, Cross-Institutional Study,” the authors talk about the importance of teaching in hiring decisions based on their research.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_higher_education/v079/79.5.meizlish.pdf