How to Develop a Professional Portfolio

Description

• Quickly locate new ideas and creative ways to showcase professional work in each of the teaching standards with “Artifact Possibilities,” an annotated alphabetised list of 65 possible artifacts that teachers can submit to their portfolios, featured in Chapter 5. This unique reference list includes and describes a wide-range of the different types of documents that could be included, and suggestions for alignment with the standards.
• Learn about the importance of standards-based education and the advantages of using standards as a way of documenting professional capabilities with “Choosing Standards for Your Portfolio,” featured in Chapter 3. This new section explains the use of standards as the organisational tool for teaching portfolios. Sets of standards are also compared, and the addition of Danielson’s Framework for Teaching domains is now included.

• The entire text has been revised to reflect the 2011 InTASC standards.
• In Chapter 4, all 10 explanations of standards and teaching scenarios are newly revised to reflect the new 2011 InTASC standards.
• Danielson’s Framework for Teaching domains have been added to Chapter 3 to provide an additional structure for organizing the portfolio.
• Five additional artifact possibilities have been added to Chapter 5 to address InTASC Standard Five, Application of Content.
• In Appendix B, a newly revised “Portfolio at a Glance” provides readers with a useful tool for use in a job search.
• Chapter 7 includes updated links to online electronic portfolios.

The preeminent guidebook for portfolio development, this influential text has given pre-service and in-service teachers the necessary tools to create a professional teaching portfolio that reflects the uniqueness of each individual educator, and to provide to others an authentic, broad-based, and compelling method for evaluating their professional abilities. For fifteen years, How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers has been a leading source of information for teachers who need guidance in creating a portfolio that showcases their professional abilities. In seven concise chapters, this book offers pre-service and in-service teachers step-by-step procedures for portfolio development, using national teaching standards as the organizing system, and offers teachers an extensive list of pragmatic artifact possibilities to showcase their professional growth. This versatile and practical book provides clear, manageable guidelines and tips for professional portfolio development that can be followed by teachers at all stages of their careers.

Also from Dorothy M. Campbell, Beverly J. Melenyzer, Diane H. Nettles and Richard M. Wyman:

          0137034547 – How to Develop A Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers, 5/e – ©2011

Also from Richard M. Wyman:

           0205375642 – America’s History Through Young Voices: Using Primary Sources in the K-12 Social Studies Classroom, 1/e – ©2005

Appropriate for courses in Introduction to Teaching, Introduction/Foundations of Education, and Portfolio Development in departments of education.

Fifteen years in the marketplace, How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers, has grown to be the preeminent textbook for teachers who need guidance in portfolio development from start to finish. This influential work has guided thousands of pre-service and in-service teachers with the tools they need to provide to others an authentic, broad-based, and compelling method for evaluating their professional abilities.

In seven concise chapters, the latest edition of this best-selling text offers step-by-step procedures for portfolio development, using the 2011 InTASC national teaching standards as the basis for the organization from start to finish. Clearly written with ample real-life examples throughout, the text is simple enough to use without outside help so that novice and experienced teachers alike can independently create a portfolio that showcases their strengths in each of the InTASC standards. The authors have included a robust list of pragmatic artifacts, and present other teaching possibilities so that educators can see the range of documents that are applicable to presenting their professional growth within their personal teaching portfolio. Guidelines for using the portfolio throughout one’s teaching career are included in one chapter, which also details potential interview questions, and additional ways to use the portfolio in an interview. The final chapter is devoted to showing teachers how to pull it all together in an electronic version of the professional portfolio.

The most concise and applicable teaching portfolio development text around, How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers, Sixth Edition, gently guides its audience–whether student teachers, new teachers, tenured teachers, and even master teachers– to a greater understanding and success in creating a professional portfolio to the best of one’s abilities, showcasing each individual’s talents and contributions in the most professional, albeit unique ways.

Chapter 1  What You Need to Know About Portfolios    1

Chapter 2  Guidelines for Assembling Your Portfolio  9

Chapter 3  Choosing Standards for Your Portfolio       19

Chapter 4  Organization of Portfolios Around Teaching Standards  26

Chapter 5  Artifact Possibilities    50

Chapter 6  Using the Portfolio Throughout a Teaching Career    64

Chapter 7  Electronic Portfolios    88

Appendix A    97

Appendix B    99

Appendix C    104

The authors are faculty members at California University of Pennsylvania, and have been involved in teacher portfolio assessments for more than ten years.  All have published and presented in the teacher education field in a variety of professional interests including early childhood, literacy, social studies, National Board certification, and curriculum development.  

Fifteen years in the marketplace, How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers, by Dorothy M. Campbell, Beverly J. Melenzyer, Diane H. Nettles, Richard M. Wyman, Jr., has grown to be the preeminent guidebook for teachers who need guidance in portfolio development from start to finish. Thousands of pre-service and in-service teachers have followed the tools provided in this uniquely versatile and practical book with its clear, manageable guidelines and tips for professional portfolio development that can be followed by teachers at all stages of their careers.

In seven concise chapters, the latest edition of this best-selling text offers step-by-step procedures for portfolio development, using the 2011 InTASC national teaching standards as the basis for the organization throughout the text. The text provides guidance for educators on how to assemble the portfolio, choosing standards, and organizing the material around teaching standards. Artifact possibilities are included, as well as how to use the portfolio throughout one’s teaching career, as well as interview questions, and ways to use the portfolio in an interview. The final chapter is devoted to showing teachers how to pull it all together in an electronic portfolio. The end-matter features professional affiliates, developing a “portfolio at-a-glance,” and a helpful Glossary of key terms.

Clearly written with ample real-life examples throughout, the text is simple enough to use without outside help so that novice and experienced teachers alike can independently create a portfolio that showcases their strengths in each of the InTASC standards. The most concise and applicable teaching portfolio development text around, How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers, Sixth Edition, gently guides its audience–whether student teachers, new teachers, tenured teachers, and even master teachers– to a greater understanding and success in creating a professional portfolio to the best of one’s abilities, showcasing each individual’s talents and contributions in the most professional and unique of ways.