Duration
90h AUTR
Number of credits
| Advanced Master in University and Higher Education Pedagogy | 16 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Throughout the training, you have had the opportunity to critically reflect on your concrete teaching practices using various models and pedagogical tools. These reflections have helped identify the strengths and weaknesses of your practices and have led you to consider and implement improvements aimed at leveraging the strengths and reducing the identified weaknesses.
Writing a teaching portfolio will allow you to take stock of your training journey, its effects on your professional development, and the perspectives it opens. Your portfolio will gather various traces of your reflective journey. These will be written and arranged according to a prescribed structure (see guidelines available in the online course space YTFE0004).
Your portfolio will thus mark the culmination of one or two years dedicated to your professional development as a teacher. It is a demanding task, which also meets the requirements set by most professional organizations in the field of higher education pedagogy. These organizations validate the pedagogical experience of teachers for their professional advancement or personal development.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Formasup aims to develop five competencies (CREER model) related to the candidate's specific teaching context. These competencies are:
Designing coherent training courses;
Implementing the designed course (resources, tools, technologies, etc.);
Teaching/conducting/supporting learning;
Assessing student learning and providing feedback;
Regulating the quality of one's teaching through documented reflective practice.
The goal of writing a teaching portfolio is to help you articulate your progress in developing the five competencies targeted by the program into a rigorous and coherent reflection on your concrete teaching practices.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
- Having completed the learning activities organized within the courses PESU0016 and PESU0017.
- Having attended elective courses amounting to 8 ECTS.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The writing of the portfolio corresponds to the final evaluation of the Formasup training. The activities organized during the training serve as a progressive preparation for the development of your portfolio, as they cover aspects of pedagogy and your teaching practices that you will need to integrate into the final production represented by the portfolio.
The precise and detailed instructions for writing the portfolio are available in the online course space YTFE0004 hosted on the eCampus platform. Additionally, these instructions will be clearly explained to you upon request in an interview (in-person or virtual) with your mentor.
Below are the four main parts that your portfolio will include (see detailed description in the online space):
1) A personal presentation in which you describe your teaching career, its key stages, significant moments of your professional experience, and your vision of what the teaching profession means to you.
2) You provide tangible evidence from your teaching practice that reflects how you concretely work on developing the second competency of the Formasup framework: "Teaching in a motivating, active, engaging manner by informing each learner about their progress to promote deep learning throughout life."
3) You critically and reflectively report on a public communication that you have previously organized within your institution or outside of it (at a conference, a seminar, etc.). This communication aims to share key elements of your SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) experience (see your regulation article written as part of the PESU0017 course) with colleagues or other individuals involved in higher education and to benefit from their reactions and advice.
4) Based on the actions and reflections carried out during the training, you describe your professional development perspectives beyond Formasup.
You will attach to your portfolio your course syllabus (cf. evaluation of the PESU0016 course) and your regulation article (cf. evaluation of the PESU0017 course), as well as your report on the "peer observation" activity (the instructions for this activity can be found in the online spaces of the PESU0017 and YTFE0004 courses) and the support material for your public communication (see part 3 of the portfolio).
If you are taking this course as an educational advisor, the structure of the portfolio as described in this syllabus will be subject to some modifications based on your personal context. These modifications will be explained to you later.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Blended learning
Further information:
At the end of the training year (June or August-September session), you submit your teaching portfolio for certification evaluation and defend it, either in person or via videoconference, before a jury of three people. In the case of a videoconference jury, a trusted person within your institution will be mobilized to attest to the proper conduct of the remote defense.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Platform(s) used for course materials:
- eCampus
- Microsoft Teams
Further information:
There are no specific readings required for writing your portfolio. However, the recommended readings for the courses PESU0016 ("Framing and Analyzing Your Teaching and Assessment Practices"), PESU0017 ("Deepening and Regulating Your Teaching and Assessment Practices"), and the elective courses may be useful, as well as all the resources (articles, PPT presentations, and notes) available in the online spaces of the Formasup program. Portfolios from previous years are also available for consultation at IFRES.
Written work / report
Other : see "futher information"
Further information:
The writing of your teaching portfolio and its oral defense before a jury of three people involved in higher education pedagogy account for 34 points out of the 100 points allocated to all the evaluations of the Formasup program.
- The minimum required grade to pass the "portfolio" (writing + oral defense) is 10/20.
- The evaluation criteria focus on the reflective quality of your descriptions and analyses carried out in accordance with the instructions communicated via the online course space YTFE0004.
- You send 2 paper copies of your portfolio by the agreed dates (to be decided on a case-by-case basis) to the IFRES secretariat and submit an electronic version (pdf file) in the online course space YTFE0004.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
See the organizational details provided under the section "Assessment Methods and Criteria."
Contacts
Pascal Detroz
Dominique Verpoorten
Secrétariat de l'IFRES
Association of one or more MOOCs
There is no MOOC associated with this course.