Portfolios and Electronic Portfolios

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Portfolios and Electronic Portfolios

• By Dolores Brzycki and Nancy Yost

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What Is a Portfolio?

• Like an artists portfolio
• What is the purpose?

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What Does a Portfolio Do?

• Demonstrates
• best professional work
• types of work
• accomplishments and growth
• meeting requirements or standards
• required by NCATE
• Promote reflection, understanding, improvement
• Get a job but this is a purpose only later

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A Teachers Portfolio

• Role as teacher
• Knowledge
• Impact of teaching on student learning
• Interactions with students
• Interactions with colleagues
• Goals for professional development standards

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Education Knowledge Base

• Content
• Competence in pedagogy to meet individual needs
  of learners
• Commitment to teaching and equity
• Collaboration

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Content

• Academic progress
• Accounts of field experiences related to content
• Special projects in content courses
• Examples of work
• Connection to standards
• Reflections

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Needs of Learnersand Competence in Pedagogy

• Passages on field experiences
• Best lesson/unit plans
• Teaching themes
• Photographs of learning experiences
• Displays of childrens work
• Reflections

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Commitment

• Professional memberships and activities
• Honor societies
• Volunteer work in the service of children
• Employment

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Collaboration

• Collaborative projects
• Teaching partners
• Helping others/interpersonal skills

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Formats

• Binder
• Portfolio
• Electronic

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Electronic Portfolios Contain

• Graphics
• Video
• Audio
• Hyperlinks

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Digital Portfolios

• All artifacts converted to computer readable form

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Benefits of Technology

• Variety of multimedia documentation
• Make performance replayable reviewable
• Make connections
• among works and themes
• between teaching and standards
• between artifacts and standards
• Show you know technology
• Model
• Fuller understanding of who the person is
• Inexpensive to duplicate and distribute

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Media for Electronic Portfolios

• MS Word
• HTML (Web pages)
• PowerPoint

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Portability of Electronic Portfolios

• Disk, floppy and zip
• CDs
• Web Pages
• Adobe Acrobat

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Stages

• Collection
• Selection
• which items satisfy goals or extend your image
• Reflection
• Projection what next?