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Developing Your Portfolio – Enhancing Your Learning and Showing Your Stuff: A Guide for the Early Childhood Student or Professional - Hardcover
Portfolios aren’t just for documenting the work of young children―they can also be powerful resources for early childhood educators’ professional training and development. From evaluating one’s classroom practice to showcasing skills and accomplishments, professional portfolios are a comprehensive record of a career in its entirety. In this book, Marianne Jones and Marilyn Shelton guide both practicing and pre-serve instructors through the process of showcasing their own teaching skills. The authors present numerous examples taken from successful portfolios, provide helpful tips and strategies, combine theory and practice for developing portfolios, and walk readers step-by-step through the creation process. This essential guide will accessibly and effectively guide early childhood educators through the recording of their emerging abilities.
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About the Author:
Marilyn Shelton, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Kremen School of Education and Human Development, Department of Literacy and Early Education at CSU Fresno. She studies developmentally appropriate uses of computers with young children and issues of diversity, anti-bias, and peace education. Dr. Shelton has recently edited four training guides for the California Association for the Education of Young Children's Nonviolence in the lives of Children Project.
Dr. Marianne Jones, Ed.D. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Child, Family, and Consumer Sciences at CSU Fresno. She is part of an interdisciplinary research team investigating child care and welfare reform. She has taught and directed private, public, and non-profit child care centers in Los Angeles and Fresno, directed a children's services agency, taught at the community college and university levels, and worked as a child advocate at the local, state and national levels.
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Dr. Marianne Jones, Ed.D. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Child, Family, and Consumer Sciences at CSU Fresno. She is part of an interdisciplinary research team investigating child care and welfare reform. She has taught and directed private, public, and non-profit child care centers in Los Angeles and Fresno, directed a children's services agency, taught at the community college and university levels, and worked as a child advocate at the local, state and national levels.
"Jones and Shelton provide a detailed model for using teacher portfolios as an expression of constructivism and reflective teaching practices. Whether you are a college instructor, student, or teacher of early childhood education, this book offers a comprehensive look at the portfolio development process. With clarifying definitions and detailed examples, this text prepares the reader to become an intentional, disciplined user of portfolios for a variety of purposes."
--Margie Carter, Early Childhood Instructor and Consultant
"This timely book offers an alternative to standardized testing and competitive grading as the way to assess what teachers―and by extension, children―know. Emphasizing the construction of knowledge through action, reflection, and documentation, it presents detailed guidelines for portfolio development."
--Elizabeth Jones, Faculty Emerita in Human Development, Pacific Oaks College
"This book is valuable to those in the child development and early education fields of education."--Reference and Research Book News
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0415951178
- ISBN 13 9780415951173
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages144
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