Developing Your Portfolio – Enhancing Your Learning and Showing Your Stuff: A Guide for the Early Childhood Student or Professional - Softcover

Jones, Marianne; Shelton, Marilyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415951186 ISBN 13: 9780415951180

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

Portfolios aren’t just for documenting the work of young children―they can also be powerful resources for early childhood educators’ professional training and development. From evaluating one’s classroom practice to showcasing skills and accomplishments, professional portfolios are a comprehensive record of a career in its entirety. In this book, Marianne Jones and Marilyn Shelton guide both practicing and pre-serve instructors through the process of showcasing their own teaching skills. The authors present numerous examples taken from successful portfolios, provide helpful tips and strategies, combine theory and practice for developing portfolios, and walk readers step-by-step through the creation process. This essential guide will accessibly and effectively guide early childhood educators through the recording of their emerging abilities.

About this title

About the Author

Marilyn Shelton, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Kremen School of Education and Human Development, Department of Literacy and Early Education at CSU Fresno. She studies developmentally appropriate uses of computers with young children and issues of diversity, anti-bias, and peace education. Dr. Shelton has recently edited four training guides for the California Association for the Education of Young Children's Nonviolence in the lives of Children Project.
Dr.Marianne Jones, Ed.D. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Child, Family, and Consumer Sciences at CSU Fresno. She is part of an interdisciplinary research team investigating child care and welfare reform. She has taught and directed private, public, and non-profit child care centers in Los Angeles and Fresno, directed a children's services agency, taught at the community college and university levels, and worked as a child advocate at the local, state and national levels.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415951186
• ISBN 13: 9780415951180
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144