How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers, Third Edition

This versatile and practical book helps pre-service and in-service teachers create a teaching portfolio that can be used effectively in their interviews and throughout their teaching careers. The growing emphasis on creating and maintaining professional teaching portfolios enables pre-service and in-service teachers to play a more active role in charting their own professional growth and then demonstrating their competence and achievements. This manual provides clear, manageable, step-by-step guidelines and tips for professional portfolio development that can be followed by teachers at all stages of their careers. This new edition now includes a chapter on Digital Teaching Portfolios to help students learn to create portfolios on the web or on CD-ROM. In-service and pre-service teachers.

Dr. John R. Cannon, University of Nevada, Reno

This versatile and practical book helps pre-service and in-service teachers create a teaching portfolio that can be used effectively in their interviews and throughout their teaching careers. This manual provides clear, manageable, step-by-step guidelines and tips for professional portfolio development that can be followed by teachers at all stages of their careers. This new edition now includes a chapter on Digital Teaching Portfolios to help students learn to create portfolios on the web or on CD-ROM.

Special Features:

• Specific guidelines for assembling portfolios, step-by-step procedures for portfolio development, and tips on how to organize a portfolio to document achievement of professional goals (Ch. 2).
• Explanations of national teaching standards that form the organizing system of the portfolio; scenarios of actual pre-service teaching activities that illuminate the standards (Ch. 4).
• An extensive, annotated list of artifact possibilities helps students identify papers, projects, course assignments, etc. that can be used to document professional growth and competence (Ch. 5).
• Includes specific interview questions and suggested responses, using the portfolio as a guide (Ch. 5).
• In-service teachers learn how maintaining portfolios affects professional growth and ways of using portfolios to accomplish goals in classrooms and school districts (Ch. 5).
• In Appendix C, a sample brochure called “Portfolio At-A-Glance,” illustrates how to summarize the contents of a portfolio to make it more understandable to a reviewer.
• Appendix D provides a glossary of terms important to portfolio development.