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Teaching Portfolio
PostgraduateCUR-EDHE5052025
Look back at your journey as a developing educator. Showcase where you shine in innovation and achievements. Reflect on your aims, approaches and effectiveness as a teacher. Cap it off by presenting your philosophy on teaching.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 25 May 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 2 June 2025,
- 1 Dec 2025
- Price from
- $2,727
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Teaching Portfolio
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- critically reflect on one’s conception of teaching and learning, the nature of innovativeness and excellence in educational practice, and the development of purposeful, scholarly informed teaching practice
- examine and articulate the qualities of teaching excellence, incorporating scholarly literature on learning and teaching
- employ a range of evidence types to highlight approach to innovations and developments in one’s teaching practice
- communicate effectively one’s conception of teaching and learning, rationale and approach to teaching practice
- synthesise course learnings into a teaching portfolio.
- Scholarship in teaching, teaching philosophy and the Teaching Case
- Documenting and evidencing teaching quality and standards
- Teaching criterion and standards frameworks for professional recognition
- Evaluation in teaching, learning and critical reflective practice
- Mentoring and Peer Review/Observation
- Mastering the discourse, tone, and style of teaching awards, fellowships and portfolios.
- The learning, teaching, research and scholarship nexus
- Continuous professional development: Its value and place
This subject is designed for learners to reflect on and evidence their development as educators, their teaching aims, innovative practices, and achievements. In this subject, learners collate evidence of their teaching by drawing on their learning from across the degree and scholarship of teaching and learning. Learners reflect on how one’s disciplinary context shapes teaching aims and approaches, what constitutes evidence of their teaching effectiveness, and the impact of their teaching on student learning. Learners use this reflection and evidence to develop and present a teaching portfolio, with a preference for an online portfolio. In their portfolio, learners present their philosophy of teaching, reflective teaching statement, and evidence their development, innovative approaches to teaching and learning, and excellence in supporting and facilitating student learning and teaching. This subject is highly relevant for those looking to develop applications for teaching awards, academic promotion and fellowship for professional accreditation.
Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.
Find out more about the Academic Integrity module.
- Teaching philosophy (20%)
- Teaching case (30%)
- Teaching portfolio (50%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- CUR-EDH-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Innovative Learning and Teaching
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Innovative Learning and Teaching
PostgraduateCUR-EDH-GCE