About the institute

Over the last decade, the teaching dossier or portfolio has gained widespread acceptance. It is both an essential part of a file for presentation to evaluators and a useful device for investigating and reflecting on one's teaching for improvement purposes. The Recording Teaching Accomplishment Institute provides academic staff with the opportunity to assemble and finalize a personal portfolio with the advice and guidance of experienced facilitators while comparing notes on effective teaching with colleagues from a variety of disciplines and university settings. The institute has also proven valuable to instructional developers and teaching enhancement committee members over the past years.

This event, first organized in 1995, has attracted academic staff from across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Caribbean.

What the institute can do for you

• provides academic staff with an opportunity to produce a portfolio during a concentrated period of time (5 days).
• offers the guidance of experienced instructional development facilitators.
• encourages discussion of approaches to enhanced teaching.
• affords academic staff time on their own to develop materials.
• supports academic staff preparing documentation to submit for eventual personnel decisions.
• facilitates reflection on teaching practice for improvement and renewal purposes for senior academic staff.
• provides insight and experience for academic staff serving on tenure and promotion or personnel committees.
• fosters collegiality and the scholarship of teaching.