Nursing Question

Title

Assessment 3: Portfolio

Purpose

A teaching portfolio is a structured collection of reflections and teaching evidence which can be used both to inform your own teaching and provide insight into your professional practice. It should be a living document, similar to a curriculum vitae (CV) that is constantly updated. Key benefits to you in developing a teaching portfolio includes (1) taking responsibility for your teaching, (2) promoting reflective practice and (3) having a record of evidence demonstrating your impact and achievements in key elements of a health professions educators role.

Primarily, your teaching portfolio reflects the hard work undertaken, your contribution, your development, knowledge acquisition and applied understanding to your own teaching. In addition, the teaching portfolio becomes a permanent record of your teaching achievements and can be utilized for career progression, including applying for education roles, grants, promotion or when requesting additional resources to support innovation and training in your workplace.

Alignment with unit learning outcomes

This assessment task aligns with the following unit outcomes:

1. Discuss contemporary active learning trends in health profession education.
2. Evaluate current and future educational roles and contexts that encompass education in health care practice.
3. Investigate and analyse a range of educational learning theories and their potential application to health professions education.
4. Apply evidence-based educational practices to plan, design and implement an education session for health care practitioners.
5. Evaluate your own teaching approaches in a teaching practicum.
6. Contrast and critique contemporary teaching and learning methods for a range of clinical and academic education contexts.
7. Describe and critique common workplace, clinical supervision and teaching models.
8. Develop your own teaching philosophy to justify your approaches in teaching practice.
9. Apply critical reflective skills through linking past and present learnings to future education in health care practice.

Your assessment task

This assessment task requires you to reflect on and address the following FIVE sections:

1. Introduction and Teaching details (10 marks)

Your teaching details – outline your current teaching role and your aspirations as a health professions educator. If you are not currently in an education role, you can outline how you teach in your current clinical role and aspirations for teaching in healthcare.

2. Teaching philosophy (30 marks)

A teaching philosophy describes an educators personal beliefs and attitudes about teaching and their approach to education practice. Your teaching philosophy should include:

• An outline of your personal beliefs and attitudes about teaching and your approach to education practice. You should include detail about the knowledge, skills and beliefs you have acquired this semester.
• Link your teaching philosophy to referenced educational learning theories and provide current examples of your teaching practice that demonstrates application of these theories.
• Your teaching philosophy can address many different aspects of teaching practice including:
• How do you approach teaching and support, influence, motivate and inspire the learners (in your context) to learn (include feedback)?
• How do you design, plan and development learning activities (include curricula, resources or program services), Why?
• How do you plan continuing professional development that bring about improvements in your teaching and learning?
• How do you promote innovation, leadership and/or scholarship into your education practice and how does it enhance learning and teaching and/or the student experience?

3. Teaching session reflection (30 marks)

This component requires you to engage in critical reflection on your teaching session (assessment task 2), including analysis and exploration of your teaching experiences with planning and delivering a teaching session. There are many models of reflection you can use including Kolbs experiential learning cycle or Gibbs reflective Model (see Reflective Practice tool kits HERE).

Provide a written summary of the following in your reflection:

• Discuss the relationship between the stated learning outcomes, content covered in the session and the teaching / learning strategies used in your teaching practicum with reference to active learning theories.
• Discuss how your teaching session went. This could include how you felt about conducting the session, including content delivery. Describe your audience including their profile and their engagement during the session. Detail the audio-visual or other equipment used and discuss the effectiveness of these. Discuss any environmental considerations you encountered and detail how these were addressed.
• Make clear the links between teaching experiences and self and teaching, demonstrating insights and self-awareness of behaviors, thoughts and feelings. This may include changes to your assumptions, stereotypes and beliefs held prior to the experiences.
• Reflect on the tool used for evaluation of your teaching and critique its use for this teaching experience. Then, reflect on the feedback you received for your teaching session and outline any future changes you might make to your teaching in response to this feedback.

4. Evidence of updated lesson plan (20 marks) Appendices (Can be submitted as PDF) Not included in word count.

You should supply supporting evidence of your updated lesson, including the following:

• Based on your reflections, are there any changes required to be made to the original teaching plan now that you have completed the teaching session? Discuss why you would make these changes or provide rationale for choosing not to make changes.
• Your updated lesson plan, with any changes made after the teaching session highlighted
• Any updated audiovisual aids or teaching documents used during your teaching session (e.g. powerpoint, PDF)

5. Academic literacy (10 marks)

Your portfolio should include reflective writing that has a clear flow, clarity of expression, grammar, spelling, punctuation and referencing.

Preparing the portfolio document

This Portfolio of work should be professionally and academically presented, and include the following:

• A title page.
• A table of contents.
• Introduction (Teaching Details)
• Teaching Philosophy
• Teaching Session Reflection
• Evidence of updated lesson plan and teaching materials based on your reflections
• Academic Literacy
• References and Appendices

Length of assessment

4,000 words +/- 10%.