Product Description: This brief and inexpensive book helps students compile effective portfolios for a variety of situations and courses. Shows students how to understand what type of portfolio is called for, recognize the material most appropriate for inclusion, and submit a portfolio that shows learning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume deals with the subject of portfolio-based writing assessment. It explores the theory behind using portfolios in writing a programme as well as information about what portfolios are, what advantages they hold for assessment purposes, and what effects they can have on a writing programme...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Details how teachers can encourage students to assess their own academic progress on a daily basis and develop critical thinking and study skills in the process. This text explores how students can become reflective and self-regulated learners and presents ideas for assessment activities...read more

Offers a practical guide to building a teaching portfolio from collection to submission.

Product Description: Reflecting on achievements and presenting evidence of enhanced knowledge and skills underpin many professional and educational qualifications. Building a portfolio is key to recording and demonstrating this professional development, and is central to gaining professional qualifications offered by CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals...read more

Product Description: How do composition teachers document their teaching? What types of documentation work best? Teaching portfolios, course portfolios, philosophy statements, classroom observation? How can these materials provide essential testimony about our classrooms and our achievements, not just to ourselves and our colleagues but to faculty supervisors, tenure and promotion committees, deans, and provosts? Documenting our work as teachers offers a rich and productive means for reflection, analysis, and self-assessment of professional progress...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Creating E-Portfolios Using PowerPoint: A Guide for Educators addresses the use of e-portfolios by pre- and in-service educators as a self-assessment tool and as a way to measure their students' performance. The first half of the book explains what portfolios are, what makes an electronic portfolio (or e-portfolio) superior to physical portfolios, and how they should be organized...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Creating the Writing Portfolio

Includes examples from actual teaching portfolios and addresses how to approach diversity, communication, classroom management, reflection, planning, and standards-based education within the context of portfolios and interviews.

Product Description: Provides collaborative, data-based strategies to help educational leaders construct portfolios and link leadership growth to school improvement goals. Includes a CD-ROM with resources, tools, and templates.

It demonstrates how to collect items for a professional Early Childhood Education portfolio and how to create/compile them in a professional manner in a binder for presentation upon graduation to obtain employment.  As portfolios are sometimes started in Intro to ECE and compiled throughout the program, or introduced in a Curriculum course, or in a Student Teaching or capstone course, there are several points of entry for this supplement.  Wiltz instructs the student what items to collect for the portfolio, how to compile/construct/label it, and then how to talk about it/present it.

It demonstrates how to collect items for a professional Early Childhood Education portfolio and how to create/compile them in a professional manner in a binder for presentation upon graduation to obtain employment.  As portfolios are sometimes started in Intro to ECE and compiled throughout the program, or introduced in a Curriculum course, or in a Student Teaching or capstone course, there are several points of entry for this supplement.  Wiltz instructs the student what items to collect for the portfolio, how to compile/construct/label it, and then how to talk about it/present it.

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Provides information for early childhood teachers on how to develop a portfolio.

Provides information for early childhood teachers on how to develop a portfolio.

Demonstrates how educators can develop and share digital portfolios that reflect personal vision, track professional growth, and celebrate accomplishments.

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Product Description: Conquer the Internet and energize your students' imaginations! To keep up in today's learning electronic environment, you've got to be Internet savvy. This step-by-step guide will help you and your students get a Web site up and running quickly and easily - even if you have little or no prior knowledge of Web design...read more

What should be the role of the portfolio in teacher education? As an exit requirement for teacher education programs, the «professional teacher portfolio» is increasingly being tied to the accountability and standards movement, as well as to evidence-based practices. Despite becoming an all-too-common feature of faculties of education worldwide, uses of the portfolio vary widely. Pre-service teachers (its intended beneficiaries) are often those most mystified by the portfolio’s use and value; is there really a benefit or have we created more empty rhetoric? The Emperor’s New Clothes? demystifies the portfolio’s use by mapping out some of the key thorny issues that have troubled portfolios in teacher education. It also identifies creative alternatives to the status quo on learning to become a professional educator.

Product Description: Let the clear and simple outlines found in this comprehensive book guide you to a better understanding of the most appropriate evaluation methods for the whole language setting.

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