Staring with a solid plan or storyboard for your portfolio will save you a lot of time and effort as you progress through the other stages and will hopefully produce a higher quality and better organized portfolio.
| Defining Your Purpose | Selecting Your Portfolio Medium |
| Selecting you Standards | What should be included in my portfolio? |
| How should I organize my portfolio? | How can keep track of my evidence? |
Answering these questions will help anchor your efforts and provide a solid foundation for planning, designing and developing your electronic portfolio.
First, I recommend you compare and contrast the benefits of each type of presentation medium – paper-based, CD, Online etc. You may wish to refer back to the Advantages of the Electronic Portfolio to assist you in this decision. To do this, let's take a look at some electronic portfolio's and answer the following questions:
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Ask yourself these 3 three questions: 1. What are the advantages of using each of these formats? 2. What are the disadvantages? 3. Which one will best meet my individual needs? |
Sample Portfolio's
As you begin to collect your evidence and get further into the planning process your choice of presentation media may change. However, as Dr. Steven Covey would say, “Begin with the End in Mind” so that you have a visual frame of reference as you proceed.
What Do I need to demonstrate in my teaching portfolio?
As with other types of assessment, in order to effectively assessment learning or performance outcomes, you must first determine what outcomes or standards should be met. Georgia educators have a variety of standards relating to classroom teaching and the use of technology. Here are some examples of professional teaching standards:
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1. Collect all the standards that govern your professional situation. Review these standards carefully to identify your primary standards. 2. List your primary standards in a separate place such as in a word document etc. to future reference. You may wish to use the Brainstorming Your Portfolio Template as a guide. 2. Use Inspiration (software) to brainstorm elements that demonstrate those standards. I suggest you work with one standard at a time, but note any evidence that may meet more than one standard as you brainstorm. 3. Create an outline of the artifacts that you have to show you meet this standard. Continue with the other standards as your time permits. Use the following example as a guide. |
When developing a professional teaching portfolio, I recommend including the following sections as introductory statements:
Draft a Table of Contents using Word, Power Point, Front Page, etc. to start the foundation of your portfolio development. You will not have a great deal of time to pursue the development, this exercise is just to demonstrate how various applications can be used to develop an electronic portfolio.
There a few elements that make the portfolio more meaningful to the viewer such as:
TAB 1: Commitment
TAB 2: Subjects
TAB 3: Management
TAB 4:Teaching Practices
TAB 5: Community
TAB 6: Diversity
Tab 7: Professional Development
TAB 8: Technology
Technology Competency Portfolio - Rubric
How can I index and track my evidence?
Once you have collected a number of work samples, your evidence may become overwhelming for you to keep track of. One strategy I have used is to index my evidence in a simple table so that I can easily see all the places each item goes with. For Example:
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Evidence |
Date of Origination |
Standard |
Referenced locations |
Other |
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InTech Lesson Plan # 4 |
December 01 |
NBPTS #2 PSC Tech # 2 |
Technology Subjects Management |
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