ABSTRACT
Its Faculty Reports also focus on the course portfolio, and how it can more effectively capture the scholarly aspects of teaching. In the past five or seven years, teaching portfolios have begun, increasingly, to catch on on campuses where faculty are looking for better ways to document their teaching. The author first encounter with the course portfolio was through the work of William Cerbin, at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, whose report appears below. He was familiar with teaching portfolios and had read the AAHE monograph on the subject. Having come to the realization that he wanted to construct a course portfolio, and working from the AAHE monograph on teaching portfolios, he sat down and sketched out for himself what his portfolio might look like. So he started with something he called 'the teaching statement' which explains the goals that he have for student learning and what he do that he think will contribute to students progress toward those goals.
