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Fifteen years in the marketplace, How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers, by Dorothy M. Campbell, Beverly J. Melenzyer, Diane H. Nettles, Richard M. Wyman, Jr., has grown to be the preeminent guidebook for teachers who need guidance in portfolio development from start to finish. Thousands of pre-service and in-service teachers have followed the tools provided in this uniquely versatile and practical book with its clear, manageable guidelines and tips for professional portfolio development that can be followed by teachers at all stages of their careers.
In seven concise chapters, the latest edition of this best-selling text offers step-by-step procedures for portfolio development, using the 2011 InTASC national teaching standards as the basis for the organization throughout the text. The text provides guidance for educators on how to assemble the portfolio, choosing standards, and organizing the material around teaching standards. Artifact possibilities are included, as well as how to use the portfolio throughout one’s teaching career, as well as interview questions, and ways to use the portfolio in an interview. The final chapter is devoted to showing teachers how to pull it all together in an electronic portfolio. The end-matter features professional affiliates, developing a “portfolio at-a-glance,” and a helpful Glossary of key terms.
Clearly written with ample real-life examples throughout, the text is simple enough to use without outside help so that novice and experienced teachers alike can independently create a portfolio that showcases their strengths in each of the InTASC standards. The most concise and applicable teaching portfolio development text around, How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers, Sixth Edition, gently guides its audience–whether student teachers, new teachers, tenured teachers, and even master teachers– to a greater understanding and success in creating a professional portfolio to the best of one’s abilities, showcasing each individual’s talents and contributions in the most professional and unique of ways.
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the leading source of information for pre-service and in-service teachers who need guidance in creating a portfolio that showcases their professional abilities. This versatile and practical book provides clear, manageable guidelines and tips for professional portfolio development that can be followed by teachers at all stages of their careers.
Key Topics In seven concrete, succinct, and concise chapters, this essential guidebook provides readers with step-by-step procedures for portfolio development using national teaching standards as an organizing system. It covers the concept of the professional portfolio, how to organize, create, and share it once it's created. The text moves on to provide guidance for educators on how to assemble the portfolio, choosing standards, and organizing the material around teaching standards. Artifact possibilities are included, as well as how to use the portfolio throughout one's teaching career, interview questions, and ways to use the portfolio in an interview. The final chapter is devoted to showing teachers how to pull it all together in an electronic portfolio. The end-matter features professional affiliates, developing a "portfolio at-a-glance," and a helpful Glossary of key terms.
Market: Written for pre-service teachers in all fields of education, including in-service teachers, counselors, administrators, and university professors.
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The preeminent guidebook for portfolio development, this influential text has given pre-service and in-service teachers the necessary tools to create a professional teaching portfolio that reflects the uniqueness of each individual educator, and to provide to others an authentic, broad-based, and compelling method for evaluating their professional abilities. For fifteen years,
How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers has been a leading source of information for teachers who need guidance in creating a portfolio that showcases their professional abilities. In seven concise chapters, this book offers pre-service and in-service teachers step-by-step procedures for portfolio development, using national teaching standards as the organizing system, and offers teachers an extensive list of pragmatic artifact possibilities to showcase their professional growth. This versatile and practical book provides clear, manageable guidelines and tips for professional portfolio development that can be followed by teachers at all stages of their careers.
Also from Dorothy M. Campbell, Beverly J. Melenyzer, Diane H. Nettles and Richard M. Wyman:
0137034547 - How to Develop A Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers, 5/e - ©2011
Also from Richard M. Wyman:
0205375642 - America's History Through Young Voices: Using Primary Sources in the K-12 Social Studies Classroom, 1/e - ©2005
About the Author
The authors are faculty members at California University of Pennsylvania, and have been involved in teacher portfolio assessments for more than ten years. All have published and presented in the teacher education field in a variety of professional interests including early childhood, literacy, social studies, National Board certification, and curriculum development.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 What You Need to Know About Portfolios 1
Chapter 2 Guidelines for Assembling Your Portfolio 9
Chapter 3 Choosing Standards for Your Portfolio 19
Chapter 4 Organization of Portfolios Around Teaching Standards 26
Chapter 5 Artifact Possibilities 50
Chapter 6 Using the Portfolio Throughout a Teaching Career 64
Chapter 7 Electronic Portfolios 88
Appendix A 97
Appendix B 99
Appendix C 104