Reflective Practice in Teaching
Teaching portfolios can serve a variety of purposes. Mine is principally a collection of reflective essays in which I record my past teaching practice, engage with current issues and challenges in teaching, and find ways to develope and improve the quality of my teaching. It is probably too personal and relaxed to be used as a formal assessment portfolio, and while it is a living document that will change, I am happy enough with it to put it here to share with colleagues and with students. Most of these extracts are date from the period 2004-2006; although the paper from the 2008 AISHE conference is current, and reflects some of the new work I have been doing.
These extracts are in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) files
Wargames Unplugged paper, AISHE Conference, 2008
Teaching Philosophy
Methodologies – In progress
Assessment in survey history courses discusses replacing a single final essay with a portfolio of work.
Online Teaching
Primary Documents in Teaching I – text sources
Primary Sources in Teaching II History& Computing using the 1901 Census of Population
Discussion of teaching video
Simulations in teaching, collaborative group work, and disciplinary understanding in history.
There is also a set of slides, without commentary, from my paper at Edtech 2006 which ties together the mindmapping and writing structured documents materials