Since a portfolio is developed over time, it also provides a way of monitoring professional development. There is a place in the portfolio for photos, but they should directly relate to a lesson plan, letter to families, or other document on display. Preparing these portfolios is a common part of teacher education programs and can be excellent preparation for a job interview. So you may be using your portfolio to select evidence for these purposes, as well. The domains of professional practice the danielson. Many professionals create an ongoing portfolioartists, corporate executives, and teachers. A professional portfolio can be created and used for any discipline or profession teaching, art, research, nursing, journalism, etc. Page 2 a handbook for education majors revised fall 2019 overview what is the purpose of portfolio assessment. Ucat aims to provide faculty and gtas with a practical and selfreflective guide for developing their teaching portfolios. The narrative explanation of your teaching is usually limited to six to eight pages and includes a reflective statement about your teaching. We will discuss the creative display of materials, but your portfolio should highlight your skills, not. As part of that process, you will have to develop a professional portfolio documenting your competency.
Examples of teaching portfolios stellenbosch university. After you begin teaching and begin to grow professionally, you may wish to begin the process of becoming a national boardcertified teacher. The content and presentation of a formal teaching portfolio will vary depending on its specific. Websites with guidelines for developing a teaching portfolio. A manual for teachers, sixth edition, gently guides its audiencewhether student teachers, new teachers, tenured teachers, and even master teachers to a greater understanding and success in creating a professional portfolio.
Includes specific guidelines for assembling portfolios, stepbystep procedures for portfolio development, and tips on how to organize a portfolio to document achievement of professional goals ch. A presentation portfolio is also a professional teaching portfolio. Ascd empowers educators to achieve excellence in learning, teaching, and leading so that. Full ebook how to develop a professional portfolio. A guide for success 3rd edition costantino, patricia m. Developing a professional portfolio for head start and early head start cda candidates august 14, 20. In creating a teaching portfolio, the key questions are why you teach and how you teach, that is. The purpose of this website is intended to exhibit efforts, progress, and achievements made during my experience within my masters program at grand canyon university. For example, you might include information on the following. There are eight basic steps in developing an assessment portfolio system. What is a professional portfolio a professional portfolio is an organized collection of relevant documents and artifacts that showcases your talents, most relevant skills, and charts your professional growth. As an academic, you might prepare different types of portfolios, including the course portfolio, the professional scholarly portfolio, and the teaching portfolio.
Participating in seminars or professional meetings on teaching. How do portfolios develop within the faculty of education. Buffington over time, the idea of bringing a professional teaching portfolio to a job interview has become an expectation. A guide to the development of professional portfolios in the faculty of education what is a professional portfolio. Since portfolio entries represent a type of performance, these steps resemble the principles for developing good performance assessments.
Free full pdf downlaod developing a professional teaching portfolio a guide for success 3rd edition full free. Teaching portfolios lincoln university learning, teaching and. Also, several states have considered or are considering requiring a professional portfolio for relicensure. This topic is designed specifically for the participants of a workshop on teaching portfolio. Teaching portfolio center for new designs in learning. Updated by heather braiden, october, 2012 with contributions from jennie. Some schools even use portfolio assessment as a basis for high school graduation. Developing a teaching portfolio, from the center for instructional development and research at the university of washington. A guide for success, third edition, offers practical, comprehensive guidelines for developing standardsbased paper or electronic professional teaching portfolios. A teaching portfolio provides a record of the ideas and objectives that inform your teaching the courses that you teach or are prepared to teach. Tls holly ann garnett graduate education assistant, skillsets friday, november 18, 2016 career and planning services developing a teaching portfolio. A professional portfolio is a collection of carefully selected artifacts that represent your progress.
Your portfolios development will be a focus of your student teaching semester graduate students may. The national board for professional teaching standards national board certification process offers you, as an experienced teacher, the opportunity to demonstrate that your knowledge. To acknowledge some runs the risk of omitting others. The process of reflection involved in developing a teaching portfolio forces. It is the interaction between teacher and student that is critical to producing highlevel student learning and achievement. A professional portfolio is a record of goals, growth, achievement, and professional attributes developed over time and in collaboration with others. The following web sites offer additional resources and strategies for creating effective teaching portfolios. Your efforts at developing your teaching skills assessment of your teaching by colleagues. The benefits of developing a professional portfolio. Developing a professional portfolio in nursing marilyn h. This portfolio will be used to guide the instructor in selfassessment, evaluation and used to record and display professional goals, growth and accomplishments. Centre for enhancing learning and teaching organisation development, hr subdeans learning and teaching rationale the content and presentation of a formal teaching portfolio will vary depending on its specific. Teacher professional learning and development best.
A guide for preservice and practicing teachers 3rd. A teaching portfolio is a collection of evidence, and reflections on that evidence, documenting your. For example, developing professional skills such as taking responsibility, empowering team members, or being sensitive to patients cultural values, are important but not easy to demonstrate or document. It illustrates your philosophy of teaching and your overall approach to teaching and professional development. A teaching portfolio is a record of your professional development as a teacher.
To assist the instructor in developing the framework of a professional teaching portfolio. Portfolios are a step toward a more public, professional view of teaching. Heltasa national excellence in teaching and learning awards. Professional teaching portfolio development objective.
Teaching portfolios center for teaching vanderbilt. A major part of developing a teaching practice involves acquiring new. The portfolio is to teaching what lists of publications, grants and. More importantly, preparing a teaching portfolio requires teaching.
Graduate students who are planning careers as faculty members should also find this handbook useful. It is a collection of materials that document teaching performance. When most of us teach, time constraints and other commitments force us to concentrate on what we teach, namely, the content. Pdf a teaching portfolio tp is a document containing a factual description of a teachers teaching strengths and accomplishments, allowing. Both novice and masters teachers will benefit from the. A guide to the development of professional portfolios in. This musthave guide to developing a teaching portfolio walks preservice and practicing teachers alike through different types of portfolios, clearly explaining their uses and purposes, and how each of these portfolio types is developed. For example, a pdf portfolio can include text documents, email messages, spreadsheets, cad drawings, and powerpoint presentations. A pdf portfolio contains multiple files assembled into an integrated pdf unit. Developing a teaching portfolio, from the office of faculty and ta development, the ohio state university. Pdf the teaching portfolio as a professional development tool. Our apologies in advance to those we have left out. Ohio standards for the teaching profession introduction to the ohio standards the research is clear.
Oermann a professional portfolio is a collection of carefully selected materials that document the nurses competencies and illustrate the expertise of the nurse. Preparing a professional teaching portfolio for an art. A teaching portfolio is a collection of documents, prepared for the purpose of applying for academic jobs and documenting professional developing in teaching. The most concise and applicable teaching portfolio development text around, how to develop a professional portfolio. In this updated handbook, preparing a teaching portfolio, we can now offer faculty members and administrators the kind of stepbystep, practical information necessary to get started, prepare, and maintain a teaching portfolio. Developing a teaching portfolio linkedin slideshare. Preparing a professional teaching portfolio for an art teaching position by melanie l. Clearly explains national teaching standards which form the organizing system of the portfolio. The original files retain their individual identities but are assembled into one pdf.
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