Thanks to funding from the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching the American Historical Association is able to present sample portfolios. The portfolios by William Cutler, Temple University, and T. Mills Kelly, George Mason University, provide models of how a teaching portfolio might be prepared. The Association thanks Professors Cutler and Kelly for sharing their work.
Introduction to the History Course Portfolio (from November 1997 Perspectives)
by William Cutler
Between the spring semester, 1997 and the spring semester, 2000 Professor Cutler modified his version of History 67, the U.S. History survey to 1877, with the help of a fellowship from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement for Teaching. He designed a new, online syllabus and linked it to a set of primary sources housed on many Web sites, including American Memory and Making of America. He also built in a feature allowing students to post work weekly online. To see for yourself how the course changed, begin with the portfolio for 1996-1997, then read the course portfolio narrative for 2000, and finally sample some of the online student reports.
Course Portfolio Narrative, Spring 2000
History 67, Syllabus, Spring 2000
Student Reports for History 67
During the 1999-2000 academic year, Professor Kelly recreated his Western
Civilization course with support from the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement for Teaching. The new version of the course then became the
laboratory for his investigation of how student learning is transformed (or
not) by the use of online source materials. He taught two sections of the
course each semester, one of which acquired all their source materials
online and the other of which received them in a printed course
pack. Professor Kelly then compared student results in the "wired" and
print versions of the course and the results of that comparison are
presented here, along with the course syllabus, samples of student work,
student and peer evaluations, and the comments of visitors to the portfolio
site. >>
Additional Resources:
The Knowledge Media Laboratory (KML) of the Carnegie Foundation
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/kml
The Center for Problem-Based Learning at Samford University
http://www.samford.edu/pbl
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