Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Day 8: Professional/Teaching Portfolios
Teaching portfolios are away of recording and sharing a teachers work, their specific achievements, what they have learned and the growth they have made along the way. They can be as simple as their best works or as complex as an alternative assessment procedure. There are five stages involved when making a portfolio. First is the concept stage. This is the planning of the portfolio. Deciding what will be in your portfolio. Next is the collection stage. Collecting all the potential artifacts related to their growth goal. Third is the selection stage. Teachers review and evaluate the artifacts that they have saved, and choose those that demonstrate specific achievements. Fourth is the reflection stage. Teachers become reflective practitioners, evaluating their own growth over time and their achievement of the standards, as well as the gaps in their development. Finally, that last stage is the connection stage. This is where the teacher presents their portfolios to their peers. Portfolios allow the teacher to be reflective of their work and assess their growth. It also allows them to document the practices they would like to preserve and even pass on to others. Portfolios are a great way to record a teachers career and achievements.
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Portfolios are a great way to document great ideas and also provide some reflection as to why that lesson was so amazing. Portfolios take a lot of time to create and implement. The selection piece is so crucial, because you want to make sure that every item placed in the portfolio ties in with your teaching philosophy, the state standards, and your goals as the facilitator. In my opinion, items should be collected in an on-going process so portfolios are continually updated as time goes by.
I think teaching portfolios is a great way to see your own growth. I can see my growth just by looking what I have done in my first tech class. I want to start portfolios for all of my students to show there growth from Aug to December and then from Jan. to May. This would be great for the student and his/her parents.
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