Portfolios capture the complexity of teaching.
In the portfolios are collections of these discrete pictures which reflect more accurately and completely the dynamic, evolutionary, varying nature of teaching. This happens as faculty prepare and assemble their material for the portfolio and as they examine each other's teaching, as described in the portfolio. Faculty begin to think about the artifacts of instruction - that list of study questions they devised for students, that written feedback they provided in response to papers, and that collection of sample homework problems they have assembled. The Center for Teaching, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY Br.