A professional portfolio can be created and used for any discipline or profession teaching, art, research, nursing, journalism, etc. Teacher professional learning and development best. Updated by heather braiden, october, 2012 with contributions from jennie. Some schools even use portfolio assessment as a basis for high school graduation. 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. A pdf portfolio contains multiple files assembled into an integrated pdf unit. Several professional associations are either using portfolios for certification or developing a plan to do so. 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. Page 2 a handbook for education majors revised fall 2019 overview what is the purpose of portfolio assessment.
We will discuss the creative display of materials, but your portfolio should highlight your skills, not. 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. The following web sites offer additional resources and strategies for creating effective teaching portfolios. Tls holly ann garnett graduate education assistant, skillsets friday, november 18, 2016 career and planning services developing a teaching portfolio. A guide for success 3rd edition costantino, patricia m. Free full pdf downlaod developing a professional teaching portfolio a guide for success 3rd edition full free. Teaching, learning, and professional development centre, texas. Teaching portfolios center for teaching vanderbilt. Since a portfolio is developed over time, it also provides a way of monitoring professional development.
Full ebook how to develop a professional portfolio. Our apologies in advance to those we have left out. A professional portfolio is a record of goals, growth, achievement, and professional attributes developed over time and in collaboration with others. Developing a professional portfolio for head start and early head start cda candidates august 14, 20. Teaching portfolio center for new designs in learning. A teaching portfolio is a collection of documents, prepared for the purpose of applying for academic jobs and documenting professional developing in teaching. Heltasa national excellence in teaching and learning awards. Graduate students who are planning careers as faculty members should also find this handbook useful.
So you may be using your portfolio to select evidence for these purposes, as well. Ohio standards for the teaching profession introduction to the ohio standards the research is clear. More importantly, preparing a teaching portfolio requires teaching. It illustrates your philosophy of teaching and your overall approach to teaching and professional development. Examples of teaching portfolios stellenbosch university. Your portfolios development will be a focus of your student teaching semester graduate students may. To acknowledge some runs the risk of omitting others. After you begin teaching and begin to grow professionally, you may wish to begin the process of becoming a national boardcertified teacher. 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.
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. A professional portfolio is a collection of carefully selected artifacts that represent your progress. Pdf the teaching portfolio as a professional development tool. This portfolio will be used to guide the instructor in selfassessment, evaluation and used to record and display professional goals, growth and accomplishments. Since portfolio entries represent a type of performance, these steps resemble the principles for developing good performance assessments. A teaching portfolio is a record of your professional development as a teacher. Buffington over time, the idea of bringing a professional teaching portfolio to a job interview has become an expectation. Clearly explains national teaching standards which form the organizing system of the portfolio. For example, a pdf portfolio can include text documents, email messages, spreadsheets, cad drawings, and powerpoint presentations. 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.
Websites with guidelines for developing a teaching portfolio. When most of us teach, time constraints and other commitments force us to concentrate on what we teach, namely, the content. A guide to the development of professional portfolios in. Professional teaching portfolio development objective. It is the interaction between teacher and student that is critical to producing highlevel student learning and achievement. There are eight basic steps in developing an assessment portfolio system. The content and presentation of a formal teaching portfolio will vary depending on its specific.
Many professionals create an ongoing portfolioartists, corporate executives, and teachers. Ascd empowers educators to achieve excellence in learning, teaching, and leading so that. Preparing a professional teaching portfolio for an art teaching position by melanie l. 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. Both novice and masters teachers will benefit from the. 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. Teaching portfolios lincoln university learning, teaching and. Participating in seminars or professional meetings on teaching.
In creating a teaching portfolio, the key questions are why you teach and how you teach, that is. As an academic, you might prepare different types of portfolios, including the course portfolio, the professional scholarly portfolio, and the teaching portfolio. Developing a teaching portfolio linkedin slideshare. The most concise and applicable teaching portfolio development text around, how to develop a professional portfolio. A guide for preservice and practicing teachers 3rd. A presentation portfolio is also a professional teaching portfolio. Your efforts at developing your teaching skills assessment of your teaching by colleagues. 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 assist the instructor in developing the framework of a professional teaching portfolio. A guide for success, third edition, offers practical, comprehensive guidelines for developing standardsbased paper or electronic professional teaching portfolios. 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. Oermann a professional portfolio is a collection of carefully selected materials that document the nurses competencies and illustrate the expertise of the nurse.
The process of reflection involved in developing a teaching portfolio forces. Also, several states have considered or are considering requiring a professional portfolio for relicensure. Developing your teaching portfolio carleton university. The files in a pdf portfolio can be in a wide range of file types created in different applications. 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.
A guide to the development of professional portfolios in the faculty of education what is a professional portfolio. Ucat aims to provide faculty and gtas with a practical and selfreflective guide for developing their teaching portfolios. In a teaching portfolio, you select, analyze, and comment on documents that demonstrate your teaching of your academic discipline. In this updated handbook, preparing a teaching portfolio, we can now offer faculty. The portfolio is to teaching what lists of publications, grants and. Developing a professional portfolio in nursing marilyn h. For example, you might include information on the following. Developing a teaching portfolio, from the office of faculty and ta development, the ohio state university.
Pdf a teaching portfolio tp is a document containing a factual description of a teachers teaching strengths and accomplishments, allowing. As part of that process, you will have to develop a professional portfolio documenting your competency. As this example illustrates, compiling a teaching portfolio can be a very useful activity. A professional development tool for the internship michigan state university te 501 and te 502. How do portfolios develop within the faculty of education. A teaching portfolio is a collection of evidence, and reflections on that evidence, documenting your. Developing a teaching portfolio, from the center for instructional development and research at the university of washington. A major part of developing a teaching practice involves acquiring new. The original files retain their individual identities but are assembled into one pdf. The benefits of developing a professional portfolio. It is a collection of materials that document teaching performance. Institute for interactive media and learning, university of technology, sydney. 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.
29 647 846 14 192 794 848 881 894 447 233 262 604 1002 1562 389 1500 1586 1087 640 1176 560 570 239 1432 471 1220 1129 492 367 122 489 577 1463