Creating a Teacher e-Portfolio
Introduction
Teacher portfolios are invaluable. They provide important insight into a teachers' individual talents and beliefs about education. With this process, teachers have gained valuable experience in selecting the types of materials they collect as well as ways in which to store the information. Teachers are no longer confined to maintaining a portfolio in a binder. One option being electronically.
Teacher electronic portfolios are concise, annotated collections of teacher work and things they have accomplished, in and outside the classroom. What makes them very different from traditional portfolios is that they can include scanned or digital photos, video and sound clips, animations, recordings of students, text, traditional writings and drawings. Teacher portfolios are a collection of work produced by a teacher. The portfolio is designed to highlight and demonstrate the teachers' talents, knowledge and skills in teaching.
SBEC PORTFOLIO GUIDELINES
- Required for all people who hold a teacher certificate from SBEC.
- Think of it as a professional portfolio and not just a technology portfolio.
- The teacher is the only judge for what should be in their portfolio.
- The District has set no requirement other than they create one. We will not dictate content.
- It is the principal or supervisors job to evaluate the content. (Rubric and SBEC standards provided)
- The portfolio is merely documentation of what teachers are doing in their classrooms (or in their job assignment if not working directly with students) displayed in an electronic format. New content shouldn’t have to be created. Include samples of what you do or examples of student or staff work that has been produced because of you.
- What best represents how the teacher works with kids or demonstrates how they perform their job is what should be in their portfolio.
- People should be able to use their portfolio to market themselves if they were interviewing for a job.
- Also remember, the District is not dictating where the electronic portfolio is stored. They can put is on a memory key, CD-ROM, shared network drive, Blackboard Portfolio tool, a website host they subscribe to, or a webpage they have created. Whatever is most comfortable for them. Portfolio must be available to the supervisor at any time.
STANDARDS
TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS STANDARDS
FOR ALL TEACHERS
Standard I. All teachers use technology-related terms, concepts, data input strategies, and ethical practices to make informed decisions about
current technologies and their applications.
Standard II. All teachers identify task requirements, apply search strategies, and use current technology to efficiently acquire, analyze, and evaluate a variety of electronic information.
Standard III. All teachers use task-appropriate tools to synthesize knowledge, create and modify solutions, and evaluate results in a way that supports the work of individuals and groups in problem-solving situations.
Standard IV. All teachers communicate information in different formats and for diverse audiences.
Standard V. All teachers know how to plan, organize, deliver, and evaluate instruction for all students that incorporates the effective use of current technology for teaching and integrating the Technology Applications Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) into the curriculum.
Standard VI. Teachers who are not technology application specialists are not responsible for this standard.
e-PORTFOLIO EXAMPLES
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