It brings together one's thoughts about teaching and displays one's teaching strengths and accomplishments. The purpose of constructing a teaching portfolio is to improve teaching performance. Portfolios stimulate the teacher to reconsider personal teaching activities, rethink teaching strategies, rearrange priorities, and plan for the future. Portfolios can foster a culture of teaching and new discourse about it. Portfolios place responsibility for evaluating teaching in the hands of faculty.
Portfolios can help capture the complexities of teaching.