How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers, 6th edition
- Dorothy M. Campbell |
- Beverly J. Melenyzer |
- Diane H. Nettles |
- Richard M. Wyman |
Title overview
- 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.
Table of contents
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
Author bios
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.