17 Part B – Supporting Documentation

SPS B2 description: “is optional and may contain additional material compiled by the faculty member in support of Part A”

Although SPS B2 offers a choice regarding the inclusion of Part B in your teaching portfolio, it is advisable to include it. Completing your teaching portfolio without any supporting documentation would be analogous to submitting an academic manuscript to a journal without any data or evidence to back up its claims.

A common way to format Part B of your teaching portfolio is to treat it as a series of appendices, with each piece of evidence constituting a different appendix. What you append to Part B of your teaching portfolio is up to you, and should be informed by what is discussed in Part A.

Together, Parts A and B make up a McMaster teaching portfolio. In the next chapter, advice is offered on selecting evidence for Part B of your teaching portfolio.