Integrating the use of teaching portfolios with experiential learning in a postgraduate certificate for academic staff in third level learning and teaching

Abstract This article discusses the process of developing a teaching portfolio to meet a module assessment for a teacher education course: the Postgraduate Certificate in Third Level Learning and Teaching, which is located in a higher education institution in Ireland. The course is designed using an experiential model of learning and its facilitated delivery by the four course tutors intends to exemplify this model. This is a broad term encompassing learning methods that are based on the experience of the learner. The overarching aim of the course is that, having experienced this model of learning as course participants, the lecturers will be well placed to implement and adapt this model in order to facilitate the learning of their own students. The teaching portfolio is designed to allow the participants to use experiential learning to build evidence of their own reflections and best practices in third-level learning and teaching.; This article discusses the process of developing a teaching portfolio to meet a module assessment for a teacher education course: the Postgraduate Certificate in Third Level Learning and Teaching, which is located in a higher education institution in Ireland. The course is designed using an experiential model of learning and its facilitated delivery by the four course tutors intends to exemplify this model. This is a broad term encompassing learning methods that are based on the experience of the learner. The overarching aim of the course is that, having experienced this model of learning as course participants, the lecturers will be well placed to implement and adapt this model in order to facilitate the learning of their own students. The teaching portfolio is designed to allow the participants to use experiential learning to build evidence of their own reflections and best practices in third-level learning and teaching.