How to Develop a Professional Portfolio A Manual for Teachers

?The text covers all of the basics, and more of what should be considered and included in one's portfolio. It has been a very helpful guide for many of our pre-service students.' 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.Campbell, Dorothy M. is the author of 'How to Develop a Professional Portfolio A Manual for Teachers', published 2003 under ISBN 9780205393411 and ISBN 0205393411.