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Portfolios
Portfolios
The Purpose of a Portfolio
The Purpose of a Portfolio
Student Portfolios enable students to:
Student Portfolios enable students to:
- Think and reflect on their work after they finish it.
- Show progress and achievement and demonstrate their academic growth.
- Learn about themselves as thinkers, creators, leaders, and to see patterns in their interests, skill sets, passions and talents.
- Share their work with others such as parents, college admissions officers, and future employers
What exactly is a student portfolio?
What exactly is a student portfolio?
It is a collection of selected works that represent student accomplishment and performance. A key component of student portfolios includes student reflections on each piece that they choose to include. The reflection allows students express their thought process for each piece of work and teaches them to think critically about their own work. Portfolios often include components such as peer review or display for public viewing.
Portfolios Explained
Portfolios Explained
Difference in a Notebook and Portfolio
Difference in a Notebook and Portfolio
Where do I Start?
Where do I Start?
So you think you might like to bring this idea back to your campus. Where do you start? How do you begin?
So you think you might like to bring this idea back to your campus. Where do you start? How do you begin?
1. Meet with teachers and sell them the idea. Create "buy-in" by teaching them the advantages of using student portfolios in your school.
2. Show examples of student porftolios and templates to help them visualize what they would look like for their students.
3. Train them on the website or technology tool that your school chooses to design your student portfolios.
4. Create a rubric for students and teachers to communicate and evaluate student portfolios.
5. Create processes for how often students add artifacts and when teachers check them and give grades.
How do I Reflect?
How do I Reflect?
Reflection Process Prompts
Reflection Process Prompts
Selection questions/prompts
- Why did you select this piece?
- Why should this sample be included in your portfolio?
- How does this sample meet the criteria for selection for your portfolio?
- I chose this piece because ....
Growth questions/prompts
- What are the strengths of this work? Weaknesses?
- What would you work on more if you had additional time?
- How has your ______ (e.g., writing) changed since last year?
- What do you know about ______ (e.g., the scientific method) that you did not know at the beginning of the year (or semester, etc.)?
- Looking at (or thinking about) an earlier piece of similar work, how does this new piece of work compare? How is it better or worse? Where can you see progress or improvement?
- How did you get "stuck" working on this task? How did you get "unstuck"?
- One skill I could not perform very well but now I can is ....
- From reviewing this piece I learned ....
Goal-setting questions/prompts
- What is one thing you can improve upon in this piece?
- What is a realistic goal for the end of the quarter (semester, year)?
- What is one way you will try to improve your ____ (e.g., writing)?
- One thing I still need to work on is ....
- I will work toward my goal by ....
Evaluation questions/prompts
- If you were a teacher and grading your work, what grade would you give it and why?
- Using the appropriate rubric, give yourself a score and justify it with specific traits from the rubric.
- What do you like or not like about this piece of work?
- I like this piece of work because ....
Effort questions/prompts
- How much time did you spend on this product/performance?
- The work would have been better if I had spent more time on ....
- I am pleased that I put significant effort into ....
Overall portfolio questions/prompts
- What would you like your _____ (e.g., parents) to know about or see in your portfolio?
- What does the portfolio as a whole reveal about you as a learner (writer, thinker, etc.)?
- A feature of this portfolio I particularly like is ....
- In this portfolio I see evidence of ....
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