Creating Your Teaching Portfolio: Presenting Your Professional Best

by Rieman, Patricia; Okrasinski, Jeanne

• ISBN13: 9780072876840
• ISBN10: 0072876840
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-17
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This portfolio handbook includes authentic, student-generated artifacts as well as insights from administrators, teachers, and parents. Issues of classroom management, diversity, communication, planning, standards-based education, and reflection are all addressed in the context of how to approach these important aspects within a teaching portfolio and during interviews. The materials are designed for continued use as the students become in-service educators.

Table of Contents

Understanding Portfolios

Teaching Portfolios: What Are They and Why Do You Need Them?

The Professional Portfolio as a Concept Purposeful

Selective Diverse

Ongoing Reflective

Collaborative Portfolio Benefits

Demonstrate Mastery of INTASC Standards

Demonstrate Mastery of Teacher Work Sample (TWS) Standards

Demonstrate Mastery of Subject-Specific Standards

Examples of Portfolio use Preservice

Use Inservice Use: Maintaining a Career Portfolio

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)

References

Suggested Resources

Compiling your Portfolio Recognizing and Expressing Your Philosophy

Basic Educational Philosophies

Idealism Perennialism and Essentialism

Progressivism, Experimentalism, and Pragmatism

Existentialism Social Reconstructions

Compiling Your Portfolio

Providing Rationales for Artifacts

Organizing a Teaching Portfolio

Displaying Credentials Confidentiality Issues Considerations

References

Suggested Resources

Selecting your Portfolio

Style Portfolio

Qualities Aesthetics Efferent

Qualities Portfolio Types

Traditional Portfolios

Electronic Portfolios

Digital and Web Based Considerations

References

Suggested Resources

Putting It All Together

Using Standards to Construct Your Portfolio

The Standards Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC)

Teacher Work Sample (TWS)

Organizing Your Portfolio in Relation to Standards

Organizing Your Portfolio According to Teacher Work Sample Considerations

References

Suggested Resources

Displaying Classroom Management in Your Portfolio

Communication and Management Styles

Communicating with Students

Communicating with Colleagues and Administrators

Communicating through High-Quality Correspondence

Connecting with Parents Seating Charts and Floor Plans Case STudies Considerations

References

Suggested Resources

Presenting Lesson Plans and Curricular Modifications

The Importance of Planning Curricular Modifications for Diverse Learners

Curricular Modification Artifacts

Differentiated Instruction Considerations

Reference

Suggested Resources

Reflecting on your Pre-Professional

Experiences Goals of Reflection Models of Reflection

Examples of Reflections Artifact Rationales Considerations

References

Suggested Resources

Preparing for Interviews Using your Portfolio in Interviews

Choosing Your Interview Portfolio

Comprehensive versus Abbreviated Portfolios

Traditional versus Electronic Portfolios

Digital Portfolios Providing Brochures

Choosing Artifacts Based on School District Information

Discussing Your Portfolio Considerations

Suggested Resources

Conclusion

Glossary

Table of Artifacts

Reproducibles Parental Permission for Student Work Samples

Parental Permission for Student

Photos Modifications for Students with Special Needs

Modifications for Students Who Speak English as a Second Language

State Education and Certification Offices Suggested

Table of Contenets Based on INTASC

Index

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