Portfolio Teaching A Guide for Instructors

by Reynolds, Nedra; Rice, Rich

• ISBN13: 9780312419110
• ISBN10: 0312419112
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-03
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Provides the practical information instructors and writing program administrators need to use the portfolio method successfully in a writing course. Ideal companion toPortfolio Keeping, a guide for students, also by Nedra Reynolds and Rich Rice.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
1. Planning Your Portfolio Course	1	(14)
Educational Portfolios	1	(2)
Portfolios for Learning	2	(1)
Best-Works Portfolios	2	(1)
Teaching Portfolios	3	(1)
The Electronic Portfolio	4	(3)
Technology Literacy	5	(1)
Common Tools	6	(1)
Navigational Schemes and Metaphors	6	(3)
QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER: Portfolio Types	7	(1)
Choice, Variety, and Reflection	7	(2)
Early Planning	9	(6)
General Guidelines	10	(1)
QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER: Setting Up Guidelines	11	(1)
Scheduling and Pace	11	(1)
Other Course-Planning Considerations	12	(3)
2. Collecting Artifacts	15	(5)
Why Keep a Teaching Portfolio?	16	(1)
Starting Your Own Portfolio	17	(3)
Determining Purpose and Audience	17	(1)
Adding Variety and Reflection to the Mix	18	(2)
3. Selecting Artifacts	20	(10)
Selecting Artifacts from a Rhetorical Perspective	20	(4)
Situation	21	(1)
Habit and Responsibility	22	(1)
Self-Presentation	22	(1)
Arrangement	23	(1)
Audience	23	(1)
Setting a Timeline	24	(1)
Helping Students Make Selections	25	(5)
Generative Questioning	26	(2)
Preconference Planning	28	(1)
Conferencing	29	(1)
4. Reflecting	30	(12)
The Reflective-Learning Habit	30	(2)
Postwrites and Companion Pieces	32	(4)
The Postwrite Process	33	(1)
Sample Postwrite	34	(1)
Postwrite Questions	35	(1)
Working with the Working Folder	36	(2)
Assigning the Reflective Introduction	38	(4)
QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER: The Reflective Element	39	(2)
The Pros and Cons of Modeling Reflective Introductions	41	(1)
Teaching Ideas	41	(1)
5. Assessing the Portfolio	42	(22)
Ongoing Assessment	43	(1)
Summative and Formative Evaluation	43	(2)
Challenging Students' Assumptions about Assessment	45	(2)
Ways to Assess	47	(1)
Reading and Grading the Portfolio	48	(4)
Developing a Scoring Guide	49	(3)
Getting the Grading Done	52	(1)
Assessing the Reflective Introduction	52	(12)
Glow and Schmooze	59	(2)
Judging Degrees of Schmooze	61	(3)
Appendix A: Student Permission Form	64	(1)
Appendix B: Model Portfolio Plan	65	(1)
Selected Annotated Bibliography on Teacher-Graded Classroom Portfolios	66	(11)
Works Cited	77