A guide for preservice and practicing teachers 3rd. As this example illustrates, compiling a teaching portfolio can be a very useful activity. Teaching, learning, and professional development centre, texas. A teaching portfolio is a record of your professional development as a teacher. Your efforts at developing your teaching skills assessment of your teaching by colleagues. Preparing these portfolios is a common part of teacher education programs and can be excellent preparation for a job interview. 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. Many professionals create an ongoing portfolioartists, corporate executives, and teachers. Updated by heather braiden, october, 2012 with contributions from jennie.
Ohio standards for the teaching profession introduction to the ohio standards the research is clear. Websites with guidelines for developing a teaching portfolio. This topic is designed specifically for the participants of a workshop on teaching portfolio. As part of that process, you will have to develop a professional portfolio documenting your competency. A professional portfolio can be created and used for any discipline or profession teaching, art, research, nursing, journalism, etc. Ucat aims to provide faculty and gtas with a practical and selfreflective guide for developing their teaching portfolios. Page 2 a handbook for education majors revised fall 2019 overview what is the purpose of portfolio assessment. Tls holly ann garnett graduate education assistant, skillsets friday, november 18, 2016 career and planning services developing a teaching portfolio. It illustrates your philosophy of teaching and your overall approach to teaching and professional development. A teaching portfolio is a collection of evidence, and reflections on that evidence, documenting your. Your portfolios development will be a focus of your student teaching semester graduate students may. The benefits of developing a professional portfolio. To acknowledge some runs the risk of omitting others. 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.
Several professional associations are either using portfolios for certification or developing a plan to do so. The process of reflection involved in developing a teaching portfolio forces. Developing a professional portfolio for head start and early head start cda candidates august 14, 20. As an academic, you might prepare different types of portfolios, including the course portfolio, the professional scholarly portfolio, and the teaching portfolio. Full ebook how to develop a professional portfolio. Developing a teaching portfolio, from the center for instructional development and research at the university of washington. For example, you might include information on the following. The following web sites offer additional resources and strategies for creating effective teaching portfolios. More importantly, preparing a teaching portfolio requires teaching. Developing a teaching portfolio, from the office of faculty and ta development, the ohio state university. The narrative explanation of your teaching is usually limited to six to eight pages and includes a reflective statement about your teaching. The domains of professional practice the danielson. Buffington over time, the idea of bringing a professional teaching portfolio to a job interview has become an expectation.
When most of us teach, time constraints and other commitments force us to concentrate on what we teach, namely, the content. So you may be using your portfolio to select evidence for these purposes, as well. This portfolio will be used to guide the instructor in selfassessment, evaluation and used to record and display professional goals, growth and accomplishments. A professional portfolio is a collection of carefully selected artifacts that represent your progress. In creating a teaching portfolio, the key questions are why you teach and how you teach, that is. The portfolio is to teaching what lists of publications, grants and. 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. Pdf the teaching portfolio as a professional development tool. A guide to the development of professional portfolios in. Oermann a professional portfolio is a collection of carefully selected materials that document the nurses competencies and illustrate the expertise of the nurse. To assist the instructor in developing the framework of a professional teaching portfolio. A guide for success 3rd edition costantino, patricia m. The content and presentation of a formal teaching portfolio will vary depending on its specific. The national board for professional teaching standards national board certification process offers you, as an experienced teacher, the opportunity to demonstrate that your knowledge.
Heltasa national excellence in teaching and learning awards. We will discuss the creative display of materials, but your portfolio should highlight your skills, not. Professional teaching portfolio development objective. 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. A guide to the development of professional portfolios in the faculty of education what is a professional portfolio. Since a portfolio is developed over time, it also provides a way of monitoring professional development.
Also, several states have considered or are considering requiring a professional portfolio for relicensure. 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. The most concise and applicable teaching portfolio development text around, how to develop a professional portfolio. Teacher professional learning and development best. A professional portfolio is a record of goals, growth, achievement, and professional attributes developed over time and in collaboration with others. Examples of teaching portfolios stellenbosch university. Teaching portfolio center for new designs in learning. Developing a teaching portfolio linkedin slideshare. Developing your teaching portfolio carleton university. The original files retain their individual identities but are assembled into one pdf.
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. Pdf a teaching portfolio tp is a document containing a factual description of a teachers teaching strengths and accomplishments, allowing. The files in a pdf portfolio can be in a wide range of file types created in different applications. Our apologies in advance to those we have left out. 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. A pdf portfolio contains multiple files assembled into an integrated pdf unit. Participating in seminars or professional meetings on teaching.
For example, a pdf portfolio can include text documents, email messages, spreadsheets, cad drawings, and powerpoint presentations. Some schools even use portfolio assessment as a basis for high school graduation. In a teaching portfolio, you select, analyze, and comment on documents that demonstrate your teaching of your academic discipline. Ascd empowers educators to achieve excellence in learning, teaching, and leading so that. In this updated handbook, preparing a teaching portfolio, we can now offer faculty. It is the interaction between teacher and student that is critical to producing highlevel student learning and achievement. Free full pdf downlaod developing a professional teaching portfolio a guide for success 3rd edition full free. Preparing a professional teaching portfolio for an art. Institute for interactive media and learning, university of technology, sydney. How do portfolios develop within the faculty of education. Graduate students who are planning careers as faculty members should also find this handbook useful. Both novice and masters teachers will benefit from the.
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. Preparing a professional teaching portfolio for an art teaching position by melanie l. Chertl rhodes university a brief guide to the development of a teaching portfolio. A guide for success, third edition, offers practical, comprehensive guidelines for developing standardsbased paper or electronic professional teaching portfolios. A professional development tool for the internship michigan state university te 501 and te 502. There are eight basic steps in developing an assessment portfolio system. Teaching portfolios center for teaching vanderbilt. A major part of developing a teaching practice involves acquiring new.
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