To tour your newly created Teacher Education Portfolio site follow the steps below.
Log in to Google Drive using ONLY your @go.olemiss.edu email address.
Open up your Teacher Education Portfolio site.
Click the three vertical dots next to the PUBLISH button.
Select "Help", then "Take a tour" which will show you some of the features of the Google Sites platform.
In the right sidebar, select PAGES to view all the pages on your site.
Select each of the pages below to view the indicated page as you learn the purpose behind each section of the portfolio.
Home - This purpose of this page is to introduce yourself to readers. Some preloaded ideas for introducing yourself are selecting a picture that represents who you are as a teacher and place an appropriate caption under the photo, writing a welcome statement, and linking to your resume (that is stored in your Teacher Education Portfolio Artifacts Google Drive folder). There is also a footer for you to include any relevant contact information you would want to share.
Philosophy - The purpose of this page is to document how you define and refine your beliefs about teaching and learning. Make sure that when you revisit your philosophy throughout the program that you do not delete anything you previously posted. You may change your mind about something or your ideas may be more sophisticated later in your program, but you will want to leave the old philosophy statements posted in order to show how you have evolved and grown as a teacher. In fact, this section is set up so that you can add to your philosophy and also state how this new version shows growth from a previous version of your philosophy.
Journal - The purpose of this page is to document your field placement experiences. A number of courses you take require you to spend a certain number of hours in a field placement classroom. In order to keep track of what you are seeing, hearing, and experiencing, keep detailed notes in your journal. It is a good idea to spend a few minutes after each day at your field placement to jot down what happened that day. This journal will be valuable as an artifact to document your growth as a professional educator. Also some university supervisors will use the field experience journal as a way of communicating with those they are supervising.
Artifacts- The purpose of these pages are to display the artifacts of your development professional educator, or what I call "mile markers of development". An artifact can be a reading, an entry in your field experience journal, a class assignment, a presentation, or any other tangible item that represents an experience you had that made an impact on you during your time in the program. You will connect each artifact to one or more standards that you feel you have been able to meet through the artifact. With each entry in this section, you will need to:
Identify the artifact of your professional growth.
Describe the context from which the artifact emerged (as if someone unfamiliar with your program of study was reading it).
Reflect on how the artifact is important to your growth as a teacher.
Justify how the selected artifact shows growth in the identified standards.
Standards- The purpose of this page is to identify the standards needed for your program and to align your artifacts of progressional growth with the standards needed for your program. Eventually each standards page will be an index for identifying the artifacts that show your growth in a particular standard.
You have just toured your Teacher Education Portfolio site!