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.
The third portion
of a teaching portfolio provides documents that support your teaching effectiveness.
The final section
of a teaching portfolio deals with evaluation of your teaching effectiveness.
Not exact matches
Experience
teaches us to expect this sort
of rotation within our
portfolios.
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.
A good financial adviser will
teach the basics
of personal finance while an investment adviser will
teach you the intricacies
of debt and taxes; and also
teach you how to leverage these two tools to strengthen your
portfolio.
The Intelligent Investor
teaches you about the fundamentals
of stock trading, goes into stock history, explains how the market behaves (or doesn't), gives you a formula for several different trading scenarios, demonstrates how to find an undervalued company, and explains how to manage your
portfolio.
(«
Portfolio of Teaching Techniques, No. 1» (New London, Conn.: A. C. Croft Publications, 1951).
These colleges generally want you to have some experience, but if you have
taught a little, some
of these positions give you a chance to broaden your
portfolio and work more closely with faculty.
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
To - the - point information on course and
teaching portfolios from the University
of Washington's Department
of Fisheries
Because you have been creating and modifying this statement for each
of your course
portfolios, you will have developed a rich statement that has evolved over the years to reflect your own unique
teaching experiences and strengths.
For informal
teaching responsibilities, your course
portfolio notebook should contain lists
of key information concerning the students with whom you interacted.
Careful development
of course and
teaching portfolios can be invaluable for educating your colleagues about your
teaching.
A collection
of sample
teaching portfolios from K - 12 teachers to professors from the University
of Virginia
A course
portfolio documents your year - by - year
teaching efforts in an individual course, providing a history
of your innovations and their outcomes.
Most
teaching portfolios begin with a statement
of your global
teaching philosophy.
A variety
of Web sites offer information about examples
of teaching and course
portfolios.
Maintenance
of course and
teaching portfolios can help you both develop and demonstrate a scholarly approach to
teaching.
Being designated an «outstanding teacher» and receiving
teaching awards certainly helps to enhance the
teaching -
portfolio portion
of a promotion package.
If you
teach two lectures in Quantitative Micromacros, be sure to get macro credit by listing the lectures and a brief statement
of the lecture content in your ever - growing
teaching portfolio.
At the end
of my postdoctoral training, I was offered a tenure - track faculty position in a primarily
teaching university that was attempting to increase their research
portfolio.
One
of the things that has helped me both financially and from a growth perspective is to have a
portfolio of different
teaching opportunities.
Here we help you become a self -
taught stock market expert, mastering the skill
of Investing,
portfolio management, trading & more.
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.
At the completion
of the program, the beginning teacher has assembled a collection
of work that is suitable for a
teaching portfolio.
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.
Due to the manner
of the process and the scoring
of the
portfolios, I think the national certification process demonstrates a person's ability to
teach much better than do nine graduate level credits.
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.
These resources are supported by Videos I have made using my own work to illustrate the tips and guides - They can be found http://bit.ly/1HEaYOo
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 students: — RRB - The resources are also available to view @ http://linkd.in/1TtnJU9 Please check out my other resources for Photography and Fine Art on TES and on be.net / grw
EW: The National Board
of Professional
Teaching Standards provides no samples
of previously scored
portfolios.
The most challenging aspect
of having a
teaching portfolio is keeping it up to date.
In particular, we know that younger graduates tend to want
portfolio careers which enable them to come in and out
of professions, and
teaching is no different.
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.
P Parent Conferences Parent Involvement Parkville Community School (see also Teaming Up To Achieve) Peer Mediation Peer Review (see Teachers, Review
of) Physical Education,
Teaching Plagiarism (see Cheating) Poetry,
Teaching Portable Classrooms
Portfolios Praise Pregnancy,
Teaching About Principals Principals, Assessment
of Professional Development Promotion PTA (Parent - Teacher Association) Public Relations
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.»
The Educational Testing Service received a $ 393,000 contract to develop a «video
portfolio» assessment
of teaching.
Two important aspects
of teaching — metacognition and advance organizing
of content — can be done powerfully through
portfolios.
We offer a diverse
portfolio of online courses, on - campus institutes, and blended programs that prepare educators to cultivate critical thinking and learning skills, practice new
teaching approaches, and confront centuries - old structures in order to better design and deliver the kind
of education and professional development required for today's educators and tomorrow's citizens.
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.
«In addition to making a valuable contribution to strengthening
teaching as a profession, completing one
of these
portfolio entries will also provide participants with a professionally validated example
of your expertise in
teaching.
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.
On the plus side, Washington requires every teacher in the classroom to complete a «professional growth plan,» including the development
of a
portfolio, to receive a more advanced
teaching license.
It also has the broadest
portfolio of electronic
teaching materials on the market; its e-learning products are achieving fast growth — almost doubling between 2010 and 2012.
The use
of portfolios to document
teaching development and expertise has surged in recent years.
Teaching portfolios also encourage self - reflection (McLaughlin & Vogt, 1996) and the construction of knowledge from teaching (Norton - Meier
Teaching portfolios also encourage self - reflection (McLaughlin & Vogt, 1996) and the construction
of knowledge from
teaching (Norton - Meier
teaching (Norton - Meier, 2003).
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).
Constant comparative analysis
of multiple data sources showed that the preservice teachers viewed their
portfolios mainly as employment tools, but some believed the
portfolios encouraged them to reflect on their
teaching development.