How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers - Softcover

Campbell, Dorothy M.; Cignetti, Pamela Bondi; Melenyzer, Beverly J.; Nettles, Diane H.; Wyman Jr., Richard M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205393411 ISBN 13: 9780205393411

Publisher: Pearson, 2003

Synopsis

This versatile and practical book helps pre- and in-service teachers create teaching portfolios to be used effectively in interviews and throughout their teaching careers.

Portfolio development serves as a fair, authentic, broad-based, and impartial means of teacher assessment. The growing emphasis on creating and maintaining professional teaching portfolios enables pre-service and in-service teachers to play a more active role in charting their own professional growth and then demonstrating their competence and achievements. This manual provides clear, manageable, step-by-step guidelines and tips for professional portfolio development that can be followed by teachers at all stages of their careers.

About this title

From the Back Cover

“The text covers all of the basics, and more of what should be considered and included in one's portfolio. It has been a very helpful guide for many of our pre-service students.”

Dr. John R. Cannon, University of Nevada, Reno

This versatile and practical book helps pre-service and in-service teachers create a teaching portfolio that can be used effectively in their interviews and throughout their teaching careers. This manual provides clear, manageable, step-by-step guidelines and tips for professional portfolio development that can be followed by teachers at all stages of their careers. This new edition now includes a chapter on Digital Teaching Portfolios to help students learn to create portfolios on the web or on CD-ROM.

Special Features:

• Specific guidelines for assembling portfolios, step-by-step procedures for portfolio development, and tips on how to organize a portfolio to document achievement of professional goals (Ch. 2).
• Explanations of national teaching standards that form the organizing system of the portfolio; scenarios of actual pre-service teaching activities that illuminate the standards (Ch. 4).
• An extensive, annotated list of artifact possibilities helps students identify papers, projects, course assignments, etc. that can be used to document professional growth and competence (Ch. 5).
• Includes specific interview questions and suggested responses, using the portfolio as a guide (Ch. 5).
• In-service teachers learn how maintaining portfolios affects professional growth and ways of using portfolios to accomplish goals in classrooms and school districts (Ch. 5).
• In Appendix C, a sample brochure called “Portfolio At-A-Glance,” illustrates how to summarize the contents of a portfolio to make it more understandable to a reviewer.
• Appendix D provides a glossary of terms important to portfolio development.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205393411
• ISBN 13: 9780205393411
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 112