Student teaching portfolios: A tool for promoting reflective practice.
Not exact matches
In the real world, this is simply not true» Guy Spier «A whole body of academic work formed the foundation upon which generations of
students at the country's major business schools were
taught about Modern
Portfolio Theory, Efficient Market Theory and Beta.
Peer review of lecture and laboratory class objectives, class materials, exam questions, draft manuscripts, grant proposals, clinical skills,
student evaluations, the
teaching portfolio, and formative participation in classroom visits
For informal
teaching responsibilities, your course
portfolio notebook should contain lists of key information concerning the
students with whom you interacted.
His progressive ideas emerge in practices such as problem - and project - based
teaching and learning, scientific experiments,
student - led conferences and
portfolios.
Files Included with this Lesson • Teacher Notes and Resources • Quick Getting Started Tutorial for
Students • 3 Lessons for Projects with grading rubric including: o Create a Web Site o Create a Blog o Create an Online
Portfolio • List of project ideas for each assignment
Students love authentic work and sharing their knowledge with the world is a great way to
teach creativity, pride in quality and the importance of copyright.
EW: In addition to completing three
portfolio entries that demonstrate their actual
teaching practices, candidates for national certification must complete an entry documenting their work with
students» families, the community, their colleagues, and the
teaching profession as a whole.
In addition, he will be doing some training in authentic
student instructional approaches such as 6 + 1 Trait Writing and
student portfolios, and he will establish an account to fund «floating» substitute teachers so teams of three teachers can take turns observing each other
teach.
One fun activity for high school
students is a
portfolio project that
teaches entrepreneurial skills.
Among the factors considered in the
portfolio assessment are teachers» abilities to plan and implement instruction, to evaluate
student learning and analyze their own
teaching, to know their
students, and to adapt instruction for individual
students.
During
student teaching, candidates put together a
portfolio that illustrates their work with K - 12 learners, assessing their work and giving them feedback and showing how their planning addresses the needs of their class.
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Portfolios and interviews can be stressful for
students - and lengthy for teachers to prepare
students for - considering the time constraints of A-Level
teaching - so I made this resource to help both teachers and
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During the second semester, Curry
students do a research project based on an issue that came up during their
student teaching, and they prepare a
portfolio that includes an online résumé.
Castor: The National Board Certification process includes assessments of
teaching portfolios,
student work samples, and videotapes and thorough analyses of a candidates» classroom
teaching and
student learning.
Reading
portfolios rejuvenates me, helps me realize and understand things that I had not realized about different
students and their experiences in my class, and helps me to identify my own areas for growth as I continually work to refine and improve my
teaching practice.
The
portfolio provides evidence of their knowledge of legislation and essential publications, their H&S training records, their risk and COSHH assessments, records of statutory testing required, e.g. PAT and LEV testing, departmental maintenance procedures and importantly, how they
teach H&S to
students and how that training is recorded.
Teach students to collect and organize samples of their work in
portfolios for reflection and goal setting.
Removing the need for paper - based evidence and
portfolios, and offering technology such as smartphone apps will help to put the power back into teachers» hands and reduce the overall burden, allowing them to focus on the main priority:
teaching their
students.
By the end of my first year of
teaching all of my
students had their own digital
portfolio built in Netscape Composer and their own website.»
But since she began two years ago to take part in her state's pioneering effort to assess
student abilities on the basis of
portfolios, Ms. Forseth said, her
teaching has «changed 180 degrees.»
Students in this course will engage deeply with the most relevant research on effective
teaching methods in the higher education context, while refining their own practices,
portfolio, and
teaching philosophy.
For teachers possessing a transitional or initial certificate, the plan shall require the teacher to be evaluated based on
portfolio review, which may include but is not limited to: a video of
teaching performance, a sample lesson plan, a sample of
student work,
student assessment instruments and the teacher's reflection on his or her classroom performance.
For primary teachers, the team has developed guidelines for four «entries» that a teacher might place into their professional
portfolio: Developing
students» writing; Building conceptual understanding in mathematics; Inquiry skills; and Engaging colleagues in a project to improve
teaching and learning in your school.
I have seen the summer of
student - centered learning and the winter of standardized testing, along with the hurricane of
portfolios, and the blizzard of team -
teaching.
For secondary science teachers, the team has also developed guidelines for four «entries» that a science teacher might place into their professional
portfolio: Building conceptual understanding in science; Conducting a whole class discussion in science; Engaging
students in science investigations; and Engaging your professional community in a project to improve
teaching and learning in science.
Although the results were positive, researchers were disappointed that few
students planned to use electronic
portfolios in their own
teaching.
Portfolios are now used for many purposes, including admission into teacher education programs, documenting
student teaching, showing in - service development, interviewing, accreditation and, in the United States, certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (McLaughlin & Vogt
teaching, showing in - service development, interviewing, accreditation and, in the United States, certification by the National Board for Professional
Teaching Standards (McLaughlin & Vogt
Teaching Standards (McLaughlin & Vogt, 1996).
Students planned to use their
portfolios for job searches and to reflect on their
teaching development.
The Thoughtful Classroom
Portfolio Series is ideal for administrators looking for cost - effective professional development tools; school, grade, and department teams and self - directed learning clubs interested in raising
student achievement; and individual teachers seeking to expand their
teaching repertoires, the Thoughtful Classroom
Portfolio Series will help you get results quickly — without breaking your budget.
In the all - important area of transfer, all but one
student agreed that they can apply what they learned while creating electronic
portfolios to their
teaching (see Table 3).
When asked for an example, he pointed to the National Board for Professional
Teaching standards exam, which rates
portfolios of
student work and videos of teachers in action.
Twenty
students anticipated using their
portfolios to reflect on future
teaching development.
Electronic
portfolios caught her interest because they provide a way for
students to show clear evidence of their
teaching development in a form that is easy to share, update, and store.
Twenty
students agreed that electronic
portfolios can be used to showcase
teaching and learning.
In the future, however, the
teaching standards could provide overall structure to the
portfolio, allowing
students to add assignments from any of their teacher education courses.
Slightly fewer
students agreed that they had learned to apply technology in their
teaching and that they plan to use their
portfolios in job searches.
Student teachers are fully engaged during the
portfolio process especially when sharing their
teaching stories.
Because the six professional studies aspects were already closely related to each of the preexisting college - based assessment tasks, the
portfolio process tended to lead
students to select artifacts from their course work, which represented
teaching in the abstract rather than to identifying evidence from their own classroom
teaching.
One constant for me — no matter what grade level I am
teaching — is having my
students create
portfolios for themselves.
Quarterly, the faculty will use
portfolios and assessment rubrics, and conduct collaborative inquiry protocols to closely examine
student work and identify how to modify
teaching practices based on that critique.
Our
portfolio includes many types of schools: schools designed for personalized learning, using the best of technology and school design to customize learning to
students» needs; schools that are «diverse by design,» undoing segregation; schools that
teach marketable math, coding, and STEM skills; and schools that blend other specialized programs — in the arts, sports, or technology — with rigorous general curriculum, to capture the imagination of
students.
Have
students been
taught how their
portfolio artifacts document their academic achievement and growth?
We expect many types of schools in our
portfolio: schools designed for personalized learning, using the best of technology and school design to customize for
students; schools that are «diverse by design,» undoing segregation; schools that
teach marketable math, coding, and STEM skills; and schools that blend other specialized programs — in the arts, sports, or technology — with rigorous general curriculum, to capture the imagination of
students.
The candidate compiles a classroom performance
portfolio that includes
student work, videotapes, and other
teaching exhibits.
These
portfolios encourage preservice teachers to develop robust tools for learning, communication, and reflection to capture the complexities of
teaching (Wolf & Dietz, 1998) and to facilitate
students» responsibility as active learners in the learning process (Courts & McInerney, 1993).
How do
portfolios best fit into your classroom to support
student learning and enlighten your
teaching methods?
Teacher candidates preparing for edTPA must document their classroom work by submitting a
portfolio that includes lesson plans for three to five connected days of instruction,
student assignments, assessments, unedited video clips of their own
teaching, and commentaries on
student learning and how the candidate adjusted instruction to meet
student needs.
Artifacts of the experience included digital
portfolios, lesson plans, activity plans, videotapes of
teaching sessions, and PK - 12
student work.
Not only will
portfolios give
students an authentic example of assessment that they might use in their own
teaching, but
students will graduate with a tangible record of their experiences and a better understanding of their own abilities.
Portfolios have been shown to be a flexible assessment format capable of addressing criteria not a part of traditional assessments, such as continuous
student reflection, individual assessment of growth and change, iterative evaluation of learning goals, and the contextual examination of created products in relation to complex
teaching processes (Barton & Collins, 1993; Guillaume & Yopp, 1995; Levin, 1996; Snyder, Lippincott, & Bower, 1998; Wade & Yarbrough, 1996).