“The learner portfolio is a central element of Language A: Language and Literature, and is mandatory for all students in both years of the class. This is an individual collection of student work done throughout the two years of the course. It is a place for students to explore and reflect upon literary and non-literary texts, and to establish connections among them and with the areas of exploration and the central concepts in the subject.

– “Learner Portfolio.” IB ENGLISH A: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (HL), http://www.sevanoland.com/learner-portfolio.html.

Example of a student's Learner Portfolio

Another example 

Learner Profile

GOAL:

You will use your learner portfolio to select texts and concepts to use in paper writing.  

the DP English A  course is a two-year course and you will not remember what options you have to choose from if you do not take strong notes.  The portfolio is intended to help you review.

In relation to the IO, the learner portfolio provides an opportunity for students to:

• Keep an ongoing record of the different global issues that could be related to each of the texts they read

• Explore links that could be established between different texts on the basis of common global issues they address

• ​Explore how key passages in the texts they have studied represent different or similar perspectives on one global issue through both form and content

• Trace the evolution of their thinking and planning in connection with the global issue and how its cultural value, its definition and application to the texts they read have changed through their inquiry​

• Reflect on the challenges that the internal assessment poses for them as individual learners.

How to keep a portfolio:

At the Courtyard, we will use Managebac to keep our portfolio organized. 

1. Click on your learner portfolio button on your class page

2.  Click on ADD NEW ENTRY

3. Fill out your reflection

   1. what skills did you learn?

   2. what do you need to work on?

   3. what evidence do you have? 

      1. links

      2. pictures

      3. etc

   4. Readers, writers, and texts, time and space, and intertextuality

   5. Global Issues within the text

4. Check the boxes that apply (ask for help if needed)

5. click on ADD NEW ENTRY to save