Responding to the Call to Teach as Vocation
This section of your portfolio will include (at minimum) a two-paragraph reflection on personal gifts, abilities, and the path you traveled toward becoming an educator. Reflect on how your commitment to become an educator has become stronger over time, or share ways that your commitment to become an educator has been affirmed through your own experiences in the classroom or via feedback from others. In your entrance portfolio, you will attach (at minimum) 1 evidence or artifact supporting your reflection. Possible documents could include: participation in events for pre-service teachers; evidence of quality performance in courses in your major; records of experiences working with children in different capacities; newspaper clippings, photographs, digital video of work with students; notes of appreciation; signed time sheets; letter from supervisor or teacher ; projects: case study, explanation of simulated lesson or topic presented in class, lesson plans, papers written for education classes, or materials collected and organized for a class assignment.