Learning Portfolios A teaching portfolio is a collection of evidence of good teaching practice, where teaching is seen as everything that faculty do to help students achieve course and program goals. Teaching portfolios are prepared by teachers.
Students prepare learning portfolios .
Most often they become an assembled collection of work from a specific course submitted to the teacher for final and summative assessment. More innovatively, they are a collection of learning achievements accomplished across a series of courses in a program or major, for example. A learning portfolio may include sample work, but that work serves to document as well as illustrate the kind of learning skills, qualities, and achievements the student has. Portfolios like these can strategically position a student on the job market. Both teaching and learning portfolios have enormous potential to support and document innovative practice, where they have been developed so as to minimize the impact of the problems that are commonly associated with them.