Welcome to the Elementary Education ePortfolio Project
Candidates can choose Google Sites, Wix, Weebly or similar website builders to create their web-based portfolios.
Select a log-in/account name for your site that reflects you academically and professionally. This account should contain elements of your name so that viewers can easily identify you as the source of information ( e.g. javier.santos; jsantos12, j.santos, etc.)
There are many free resources on the Web to help you with web site construction.
For those choosing Google Sites (through Rebelmail or Gmail), here are basic directions with Steps for Creating a Portfolio Web Site with Google Sites. For additional help in developing your site, see Google Sites Help Center.
After creating your initial ePortfolio web site, please complete the 21c Portfolio Information Survey
ePortfolio Web Site Elements Include the following:
1.Home Page
Post a picture and an "About Me" statement that includes professional information about yourself such as your K-16 educational experiences
2. Introduction Page
Your introduction should be a statement of approximately 400-600 words that identifies a theme for your portfolio. This theme should reflect your beliefs/philosophy of education and the steps you have taken in your education journey. Please identify specific goals you have for pursuing teaching as a career.
Include in this statement a brief overview of the artifacts in your ePortfolio and the way these artifacts illustrate the theme you have chosen.
Possible themes include but are not limited to:
the classroom as a learning community,
connecting assessment and learning,
evidence based practice,
standards-based educational practice,
21st Century Teaching and Learning,
teaching in the age of information
3. Artifacts Page
A minimum of FIVE artifacts are REQUIRED for your ePortfolio though more may be included if you believe they also support the theme of your ePortfolio. Artifacts are to be drawn from work you have saved/archived throughout your elementary teacher education program. Include only artifacts that have been evaluated by course instructors and revised by you if needed. You may choose where to store your artifacts in a digital format before they are included in your ePortfolio.
The five required artifacts must be related to a minimum of five of the InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards. Cite the name of the InTASC Model Core Teaching Standard related to the artifact. (You do not need to include the entire description of the Standard.)
At least one of the required artifacts must demonstrate your students' use of digital tools (i.e., graphic organizers, data collection, etc.)
At least two artifacts must demonstrate your use of formative assessment (e. g. Analysis of Student Work, [ASW-1],lesson plans, etc.)
See the InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards document for delineation of knowledge, dispositions, and performances for all standards.
4. Conclusion Page
Your conclusion is a final reflection in which you discuss the impact of your experiences in the teacher education program and ways the experience of creating an ePortfolio contributed to your professional growth.
Topics for discussion in your conclusion could include but are not limited to:
the relationship of courses completed during the program to the experiences in the field,
how creating the ePortfolio helped you learn about yourself as a learner,
the ways assignments throughout the program helped promote your development as an effective teacher,
and highlight the strengths you developed in relation to the outcomes of the Elementary Education program.
5. Resources Page
Share web sites or information you believe would be beneficial.
Note: At the end of your student teaching internship and after presenting your ePortfolio, submit your feedback on this brief ePortfolio Development Survey
Elementary Program sample sites created by former students
Sample - Madison Smith
Sample - Danielle Payne