Teaching Portfolio
Whether or not you decide to create a teaching portfolio is a personal decision, but the benefits of creating a teaching portfolio are many fold. There is a lot of research supporting them as a tool in lifelong learning and for your job search. As a result, preparing a portfolio, either digital or hard copy, will become more and more common in the future.
A teaching portfolio is a story about you and who you are as an educator. Your teaching portfolio should be a tool that demonstrates your skills and knowledge, and provides evidence of your successful teaching practices. It is an effective way for teachers to reflect upon, describe, and document their teaching philosophy, goals, and achievements. Teaching portfolios allow for tracking and documentation of longer periods of teaching than are allowed for during supervised classroom observations. They also serve as a portable residency, encouraging a connection between the teaching process and end-product.
Your portfolio needs to be creatively designed and carefully organized so that it presents well to recruiters. When you start to put your portfolio together, the first thing you need to consider is what you want it to communicate to schools. Really anything that you can capture can lend itself to being part of your portfolio. Although nothing is stopping you from taking an encyclopedic approach – including everything that you have collected over your teaching career – this can end up overwhelming the viewer and make the more important entries lose their importance.
First you need to figure out what the purpose of your teaching portfolio is as well as your target audience. Make a list of your employment goals, and then find the information you think will fulfill them. It can include examples of what you have learned about educating others, what you do as an educational leader in your preparation and teaching, a description of your journey as an educator, and a narrative of your growth, values, future vision, and plans.
Below you will find the documents you need to add to your portfolio.
Teaching Diary Table Of Contents Scope and Sequence My Philosophy
English Syllabus Junior High School English Syllabus High School
Class Observation Rubric Activity Log Lesson Plan Format
English Syllabus Junior High School English Syllabus High School
Class Observation Rubric Activity Log Lesson Plan Format
