Putting the

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• Putting the
• pieces
• together

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Integration Portfolios and You
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Integrate

• 1 to form, coordinate, or blend into a
  functioning or unified whole
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• Your Integration Portfolio will
• help you form and coordinate
• your understanding of children,
• childhood, and early childhood
• education.

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It isdesigned to help you integrate andreflect
on what youve learned ineach semester.
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Portfolio

• 1 a hinged cover or flexible case for carrying
  loose papers, pictures, or pamphlets
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What is included in the portfolio?
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• The Integration Portfolio is your personal
  collection of observations and documents that
  help you to reflect on concepts, values and
  practices in early childhood education.
• Your collection will illustrate your increased
  awareness of children and your role as an Early
  Childhood Educator.

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• This collection is your
• DOCUMENTATION.

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Documentation can include

• ...a picture of
• children
• interacting with
• others or
• involved in an
• activity

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a quote by a child or children
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an anecdotal observation

• December 3, 2005
• Lia (3 years old) is sitting at the lunch table.
  She has a sandwich in front of her. Lia tells the
  ECE next to her that she cant eat her sandwich.
  The ECE suggests she try and eat a bit and
  proceeds to cut the half sandwich into quarters.
  Lia puts her head on the table and cries But I
  didnt want MORE!

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a sample of childrens work
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• Youre
• interactions
• with
• children

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• Something
• youve done to
• improve your
• program

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• For each piece in your collection, you will
• also include a...

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Rationale

• 1. An underlying reason
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• The rationale is your
• reason for including the
• document in your portfolio.

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• Think about these questions when writing
• a brief rationale for each document
• Why am I including this piece?
• What does this piece demonstrate or illustrate?
• What did I learn?

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• Liams Dad had been
• away and was arriving
• home today. Liam
• drew a picture of his
• father on the plane.
• This picture gives us
• a window into his
• thinking and what is
• important to him
• right now.

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• December 3, 2005
• Lia (3 years old) is
• sitting at the lunch table.
• She has a sandwich in front
• of her. Lia tells the ECE
• next to her that she cant
• eat her sandwich. The ECE
• suggests she try and eat a
• bit and proceeds to cut the
• half sandwich into quarters.
• Lia puts her head on the
• table and cries But I
• didnt want MORE!

• This observation shows that Lia can not yet think
  about the pieces still being part of the whole.
  All she sees is more to eat. Piaget describes
  this as one of the limitations of preschool
  thoughtthe inability to conserve. Lia can not
  yet understand that even though it looks like
  there is more, it is still the same amount of
  sandwich.

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Organization

• The portfolio is your personal collection. You
  can develop and organize it any way you wish.
• The following slides illustrate one
• way of organizing documentation.

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Remember

• Have fun!
• This portfolio is a document
• for you to reflect
• on all of your learning 
• each semester.

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• Questions?
• Contact any instructor in the
• RRC Workplace ECE program.